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...Scotland voted 72 to 66 to disassociate itself from Strathclyde's plan to award an honorary degree to Cal's President Clark Kerr. The students protested his "illiberal views over the rights of the students of the University of California to organize themselves on the campus." The Glasgow students had it all wrong. If anything, Kerr had handled the student rebellion too gingerly...
...died in vain." In Switzerland, mixed nude skiing ap pears to be the latest kick. France has orgiastic "happenings," a homosexual nightclub, and parachutists with a marked proclivity for drunkenness and rape. German and Dutch students pre fer sadism. England's youth, except for a bully gang of Glasgow girls picketing against free love, apparently derives thrills from its Mods and Rockers, heavy petting, and a corps of pimply-faced boys at the Royal Ballet School...
...year-old violin virtuoso on tour, Yehudi Menuhin stays religiously in trim with yoga and health foods. Not that he is in any danger of getting fat. The busiest, fastest-moving musician on the international festival circuit, Menuhin has performed in some 50 concerts from Tel Aviv to Glasgow this summer, has also fulfilled a dizzying round of recording, teaching and conducting engagements. The crescendo comes each year in June and August, when Menuhin presides over two top-notch festivals, at Gstaad in Switzerland, which he himself inaugurated and directs, and Bath in England...
Alexander was at Glasgow from 1920 to 1963, with six years out as a major in the Second World War. "I was an anti-aircraft gunner," he said, "an old man's job." He became Regius Professor in 1935. Though he has written only on Shakespeare, he has also taught courses on the Romantic poets and on Chaucer. "I suppose I've lectured on the Victorians some, but with the death of Sir Walter Scott in 1832, the old-fashioned people like...
After his year at Trinity, Dublin, Alexander and his wife are retiring to St. Andrews. Though he does play golf his primary reason for settling there is that a university library will be available. Why is he leaving Glasgow? "I don't want to live next to the University where I've taught for 40 years. I'd get in the way of my successor. Nothing is such a nuisance as an idle colleague...