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...serious-minded Scot student at Glasgow University enjoys nothing more than electing a Lord Rector, when he must traditionally fight with a bag of soot for his place at the polling booth. The University's General Council of Electors never proceeds more deliberately than when it is choosing a Scot, like the late great physicist Baron Kelvin or Gladstone's successor as Prime Minister, the late Earl of Rosebery, to honor with the title of Chancellor. But Lord Rectors are only disciplinary officials, Chancellors merely figureheads. The real ruler of this great and ancient University is the Principal...
...Glasgow's Principal Sir Robert Sangster Rait died this year. Last week Glasgow turned out to welcome his successor, Principal Sir Hector James Wright Hetherington. At 48 the youngest chief executive in the University's history, lean, athletic Sir Hector was graduated by Glasgow with highest honors in both economics and philosophy, has served on the faculties of Sheffield, University College (Cardiff), University College (Exeter), was called back to Glasgow from the Vice-Chancellorship of relatively upstart Liverpool University...
Greetings in Latin are shown from the Papal Academy of Sciences, the Royal Hungarian Peter Paznany University, and the universities of Leiden, Dublin, Edinburgh, St. Andrews, Upsala, Naples, Glasgow; and Carolina. For some the exhibit emphasizes the magnificent cases in which the messages were sent, many of them the finest examples of modern leatherworker's art, in red, deep brown, and blue, with gold seals embossed...
...story back of No Mean City is almost more significant than the one it tells. Alexander McArthur had lost his job in Glasgow in 1929, spent the next five years writing novels based on the lives of his Gorbols neighbors. The books that he submitted to Longmans, Green were considered unpublishable by that staid publishing firm, which hired H. Kingsley Long (Limey: an Englishman Joins the Gangs) to read the manuscripts and check on the accuracy of McArthur's grim accounts. The resulting collaboration plainly shows the joints and seams of each author's contribution, with McArthur presumably...
...hypocritical horror that runs through it. Writing as if the poverty-stricken masses they describe belonged to some savage tribe heretofore unknown, the authors solemnly state that "their novel deals only with one seam in the crowded life of the Empire's second city." They add that Glasgow is making a determined effort "to rehouse and to help its poorer citizens." After picturing stables that would tax the strength of a dozen Hercules, they end their book with a vague reference to "preachers and social workers" who entered the wilderness of Gorbols, improved conditions so much that desperadoes like...