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...recent lecture a Harvard professor said: "Lord Kelvin, while at the University of Glasgow, neglected his students and did a great many worth while things for the world." Many a professor has found it useful to observe Lord Kelvin's distinction between "students" and "worth while things...
...American students are eager to learn and co-operate splendidly with the professor. I have never seen a finer library than Widener, for the organization is such that research is made most easy." Professor Halliday was graduated from Oxford, 1908, and has since held professorships at the Universities of Glasgow and Liverpool...
...learned man." By this is meant that he is not necessarily educated because he is learned. Nor is he an educated man simply because he is a university man, added this son of a farm laborer who was thrilled last July when the University of Glasgow gave him its degree, the greatest of prizes in the eyes of a Scotchman. A man may be educated for a that and a that...
...translator is Prof. James Moffatt of Glasgow, famed prototype of Scottish plain living, high thinking, hard wor-r-rking. His was the first of many famous new translations of the New Testament. His translation of the Old Testament may be complete; but the book which Publisher Doran put on sale contained only the books Genesis to Esther inclusive?i. e., about half the Old Testament, the half in which most of the events and incidents of Jewish history are recorded...
Strongholds. The Conservatives took by storm the Lancashire and Glasgow divisions, for decades the strongholds of Liberalism and extreme Socialism. The London constituencies, which have often sponsored Liberalism, returned only three Liberal candidates. At Birmingham, however, which for years has been a shelter to Conservatism, the Conservatives narrowly missed a defeat...