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...Majesty's Grace, no man in Scotland has higher rank than the Moderator of the "Auld Kirk," the Church of Scotland. Only the Lord Chancellor of Great Britain takes precedence. Last week at the General Assembly in Edinburgh a new Moderator was elected. Rev. Dr. Lauchlan MacLean Watt of Glasgow Cathedral. He presided over the Assembly while delegates disapprovingly discussed a proposal to unite with the Church of England, and while one of them called Scot Ramsay MacDonald a "Sabbath-breaker" for holding "more Cabinet meetings on the Lord's Day than any one of his predecessors...
...United Artists) exhibits a new way to smuggle Chinese houseboys into San Diego: in the stomachs of large sharks, whose mouths are propped open so that their inmates can breathe. This sordid aid to immigration is devised in I Cover the Waterfront by a grizzled old fishing captain, Eli Kirk (Ernest Torrence). It is discovered and reported to the authorities by a brisk and bibulous journalist (Ben Lyon) who is in love with Kirk's daughter, Julie (Claudette Colbert). The difficulties you might expect in a situation of this sort arise promptly: a Coast Guard officer shoots Kirk...
Members of the committee making arrangements for the convention, besides Daly and Leet, are P. E. Raymond, professor of Paleontology, M. P. Billings '23, assistant professor of Geology, K. F. Mather, professor of Geology, and Kirk Bryan, associate professor of Physiography. Last year the convention, held in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was attended by about 400 people. The Geological Society has a membership...
...tale of a snow-locked glen in the Scottish highlands during a winter of the 1860's. Adam Yestreen, the young minister of the kirk, sets down the eerie happenings of his one and only winter there. A man with simple, homely ways, with speculations as to the strange death of one of his predecessors, with a great kindness for all, and a quaint sort of humor, he falls in love with Miss Julie Logan, that "long stalk of loveliness." Their few meetings have many of the elements of a dream about them, yet she seems very much...
...used by the department of Geology will make possible the consolidation of all the laboratory work in Geology 4 and Geology 5, which is now being carried on in different sections of the South end of the building. It will also house the new offices of Professor Kirk Bryan, Chairman of the Board of Tutors, and Professor M. P. Billings '23, as well as offices for several graduate students, which have been needed badly for a long time...