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Following hallowed tradition, the University of Glasgow's 7,000 students piled out last week for one of the biggest rags of their undergraduate lives. Boys & girls donned dungarees, pulled on their shabbiest shirts and football jerseys. Then they crowded into the quadrangle, shouted and shoved, tossed fishheads about, along with such oddments as catsup, rotten fruit and bags of soot. They roared irreverent chants about their retiring rector: "Walter Elliot* has a big, beery nose...
...Whose son, the present Duke of Hamilton, was the owner of the estate near Glasgow where Rudolf Hess landed...
...When Glasgow-born Gilbert Highet started teaching Latin and Greek at Columbia University in 1937, he was struck with one persistent thought: "My students were always coming up to me after class and saying, 'Goodness, this is fascinating stuff. But why the devil wasn't it taught us before?' And I'd say, 'It probably was.' And then they'd admit, 'Well, I guess...
Transfer, Please. In Glasgow, Scotland, John 'Symington quit his job as a streetcar conductor to join the units being formed for service in Korea because "I don't think the North Koreans can be any more offensive than some of the Glasgow public...
Tickets, Please. In Runcorn, England, James J. McCandless of Glasgow was fined ?2 for trying to bilk the railroad, after he admitted that he had climbed through a train window and hung outside the car to avoid the conductor when he came through to punch tickets...