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...success of this first excursion led to others. Thomas Cook opened all England to the provincials. Scotland had no direct railway connections those early days. So he organized an excursion by train and boat. For $5 each, 350 people traveled 800 miles. At Glasgow guns were fired in their honor, bands played...
After 55 years of bachelorhood Sir Robert Home, a onetime chancellor of the exchequer (1921-22), spoke loudly in behalf of bachelors last week while addressing the Glasgow Institute of Journalists...
Professor Murray after taking several degrees at Oxford University, became professor of classical languages at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. In 1908 he returned to Oxford as Professor of Greek, and has remained there since. In 1923 he was appointed as Chairman of the Executive Committee of the League of Nations and during the past three years has been active in efforts for world peace...
Televisor. In London, a concern called Television Ltd. obtained licenses to retail the "televisor," a radio device invented by John L. Baird* of Glasgow that permits "looking in" as well as listening in. Broadcasting from a televisor station in London was to begin at once. The receiver, costing £30, consists of a point of light moving swiftly over a revolving field of ground glass. The motion of the point of light is governed by current received from the transmitting station, where the image of an object or person is made to pass over a photo-electric cell at immense...
Previously, Professor Adams was Principal of Aberdeen and Glasgow Training Colleges, lecturer in Education at the University of Glasgow, as well as president of the Educational Institute of Scotland, and of the British Association, Educational Section. In 1922 Dr. Adams became Emeritus, and since that time has been on a world lecture tour which has included the universities of New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa. He has already lectured in several American universities and at present is giving a course in the University of Southern California. Next summer he will return to the Pacific Coast to lecture in the Summer...