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...students at the famed University of Glasgow prepared to elect their Lord Rector,? no less a quipster than George Bernard Shaw drew his quill as an electioneer. To the Student Leader, a pamphlet issued by the Labor Club of Glasgow University, he contributed an article supporting for the rectorship his veteran friend of many Fabian battles, Sidney Webb,* sometime Labor Cabinet member and President of the Board of Trade. As the two other candidates were Austen Chamberlain, His Majesty's Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and Gilbert Keith Chesterton, famed Author-Journalist, Mr. Shaw did not lack distinguished targets...
...wildest contrast to Chamberlain is Chesterton, who by sheer literary force has taken the position in London created in the 18th Century by Dr. Johnson and left vacant at his death until the ascension of G. K. C. . . . To make Chesterton Lord Rector of Glasgow would be at the lowest a great lark...
...baby as if they were a grand demonstration. Webb would address the biggest demonstration as if he were telling the boots what to do with the luggage. . . . Chesterton's weaknesses encourage; Webb's powers humiliate. . . . Neither Chamberlain nor Chesterton would have a dog's chance if the Glasgow academic electorate were capable of appreciating Webb...
...socialist sheetlet of Glasgow, Scotland, alarmed by the news, accused the Prince of publicly supporting Professor Carlyle, in which case "the salary and expenses of the Prince of Wales had better be paid in the future by the political organization which is allowed to use him for its own ends...
...mixed orchestra in Glasgow and Edinburgh...