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...gods of the heathens are ipso facto the demons of Christianity." We note that the eminent novelist and historian. Mr. H. G. Wells, running for the Lord Rectorship of Glasgow University, has been overwhelmingly defeated by Lord Birkenhead...
...tour of the British Isles will include several days in London, short visits at Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Edinburgh and the industrial centers of Manchester and Glasgow, with brief stays at many places identified with the joint heritage of the English-speaking peoples such as Stratford-on-Avon, Melrose, Kenilworth, Abbotsford, and Loch Lomond. In addition there will be a three days' coaching trip through North Wales, three days more in the lake district, and nearly a week in the Scottish Highlands. The party is also scheduled to visit several Cathedral towns on the east coast of England...
...sent the most skillful listener living. Mr. Paul F. Godley, one of their number to England last November, with the most sensitive apparatus possible to get together. Mr. Godley searched for a promising location, and finally located at the little town of Ardrossan, in Scotland, just below Glasgow. Here he erected his antennae and apparatus in a tent, and the British amateurs selected one of their number to listen with him and verify the signals that might be received. A very elaborately arranged schedule was built up for the American amateurs and for ten successive nights amateur signals were sent...
...Bolshevists urge a bloody revolution, and some times progress better than the larger number of advocates of steady evolution, because of their better understanding, appreciation and sympathy with the workers. A jobless laborer is easy prey for them; if he is busy, he pays no attention. In Glasgow, where nearly all the shipworkers have irregular jobs there is unbelievable unrest and misery. On the other hand, in Middleboro, England, the radicals can get no converts because the men are happy in a steady job, fair hours, good wages, a sliding scale, and a labor organization that has the countenance...
...Farlow was appointed assistant professor of botany at the University and in 1879 became professor of cryptogamic botany, a position which he has held ever since. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from the University in 1896, from the University of Glasgow in 1901, and from the University of Wisconsin in 1904. The degree of Ph.D. was conferred on him by the University of Upsala...