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This bushy-haired, blue-eyed man in a wrinkled shirt, who seemed so pleasantly surprised by my visit, was until last year Regius Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. A leading Shakespearian scholar, he is teaching two courses on the playwright in the Summer School. During the regular academic year, he was at N.Y.U. In the fall he will "relieve a chap at Trinity, Dublin, who wants to come over here for a year." This is Professor Alexander's first trip to America. "It's a big show," he said, and he used...
Alexander was born in Glasgow in 1893, went to school there, and entered the University in 1911. In 1914 he enlisted in the Cameron Highlanders as a private. "Everybody was in a hurry to get to the front and see what fighting was all about," he said, "so we all went as a crowd from the University." Half-way through the war he was made an artillery officer and left the army in 1918 as a captain...
...returned to Glasgow and completed his undergraduate studies, taking the usual M.A. degree in 1920. Then he "went to Italy for a bit," but returned almost immediately to accept a lectureship at Glasgow. "I wanted to travel around some," he said, "but if you refuse a job you want you may not get offered it again. And after five years in the army you're pretty hard up. A private's pay in 1914 was a shilling...
...student and teacher at Glasgow, Alexander came under the influence of John S. Smart, who, along with Josiah Quincy Adams "knocked a hole" in the idea, held by almost everyone in 1900, that Shakespeare had been uneducated and had begun his career by revising other people's plays. "How an uneducated man could rewrite someone's plays I don't know," he said, and then began hunting on his desk for books to demonstrate the complete change of critical opinion...
Ultrasound clearly outlines the excess fluid (ascites) in the abdomen of patients with many types of disease. Glasgow's Dr. Ian Donald has perfected his technique to the point where he can distinguish between an abdomen with ascites caused by a benign tumor, and one with ascites caused by cancer...