Word: maccormick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Scottish Nationalist Dr. John MacCormick, Glasgow's new rector (TIME, Oct. 30), stood up to make his acceptance speech in St. Andrew's Halls, he was greeted with a shower of overripe tomatoes, firecrackers, toilet paper and bursting flour sacks. His address, which he manfully finished in spite of it all, was punctuated by the blare of trumpets, sirens and whistles. One student dressed in long underwear ran on to the stage bearing a torch; later, someone released a quacking duck at MacCormick's feet. Two other students stretched a rope across the auditorium, did acrobatics...
...Rector MacCormick plowed on about home rule for Scotland, even after a couple of faculty members, hit by rotten eggs, gave up and withdrew. When it was all over, MacCormick dabbed at egg and tomato stains on his robes, said tersely: "One of the liveliest installations I've ever seen...
...mixing national and university politics freely, most of the campaigning, too. Some of the candidates' names bore their political tags: Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, Conservative; onetime Ambassador to the U.S. Lord Inverchapel (Clark Kerr), Independent; Actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Independent; Actress Rosamond John, Independent, and Nationalist John MacCormick, the energetic leader of the Scottish Covenant movement, which for eight years has been demanding a Home Rule Scottish Parliament for domestic affairs...
...Delighted." Nationalist feeling was running high in favor of John MacCormick. But in the first stages of the campaign, when Douglas Fairbanks magnanimously withdrew in favor of Lord Inverchapel ("I substantially share his views . . ."), it seemed as if his lordship might run away with the votes...
...relaxation, voting began again. At length, from the balcony above the main gate of University Building, Glasgow's Principal Sir Hector Hetherington read out the results. The race had been close, but the Scotchest Scot of them all had won. Glasgow's new Rector was John MacDonald MacCormick, leader of the Covenant. "Second: Lord Inverchapel...