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...Joseph Chamberlain died July 2, 1914; onetime Secretary of State for the Colonies (1895-1903); famed M. P.; onetime Lord Rector of Glasgow University, to which post of honor son Austen was likewise elected last week (see EDUCATION...
After all this rumpus had proceeded unchecked for several days, General Charteris at length spoke. To reporters who crowded round him as he was about to set sail for Glasgow, aboard the liner Transylvania, he delivered himself warmly as follows: "Mv speech was made at a private dinner at which the toastmaster began his remarks with the statement that no reporters were present. ... It was not necessary for us to spread false propaganda, as sufficient false propaganda was being spread from other sources to offset any which was spread for a good purpose . . . My whole idea in speaking...
...shortly appeared that in championing Sidney Webb as Lord Rector of Glasgow, Mr. Shaw had drawn himself forcibly to the attention of students at another large seat of Scotch learning. With acclaim a potent faction at St. Andrews University-nominated him for their Lord Rectorship. John Galsworthy, famed playwright-author has been nominated as his opponent...
...Lord Rector of Glasgow University is elected triennially by the students, who vote in "nations" according to the part of Scotland in which they were born. Technically, the Lord Rector is a member of the governing body of the University. Actually, the office is conferred as a mark of honor upon some distinguished...
...same time that the students of Glasgow University were pelting one another with aged eggs and older fish in an attempt to choose a Regent, the police were called into the classrooms of the Sorbonne to quell a riot started by candidates for degrees who had failed in the written examinations. To their not unbiased minds the examinations were quite impossible. And to the not unbiased mind of the dean they, themselves, were quite impossible. Their "incredible ignorance" shocked the dean; for among them was one who credited Chateaubriand with "Emile" and "The Social Contract". Thereupon the dean...