Word: scotlanders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Anxious to put their distinguished guest at ease, the newsvendors invited to sit beside him jovial Viscount Lee of Fareham, who is just now ferreting into corruption at Scotland Yard as Chairman of the Royal Commission on Police Powers and Procedure. The prominence of the chairman's police activities probably disarmed any suspicion on Ambassador Houghton's part that Viscount Lee, who used to be First Lord of the Admiralty, would try to draw him out on the delicate subject of Anglo-U. S. naval rivalry. Lord Lee did just that. Worse, he raised a preliminary laugh...
...hundred years ago there was a Presbyterian clergyman in Scotland who could make lectures on mathematics so stirring that the authorities at St. Andrews, fearful of the excitement thus roused in the students, discontinued them. He was Dr. Thomas Chalmers, kindling and original personality, whose principal claim to fame is that he led a secession which split the established Church of Scotland, and presided over the founding of what is now known as the United Free Church of Scotland...
...Years' Conflict. Not on strictly doctrinal or theological differences did the disruption of 1843 under the leadership of Dr. Chalmers depend. In this regard the divided Presbyterian Church of Scotland presents a curious contrast to the Church of England, which is not divided physically, although there are vexatious differences between its two factions ("high" church or "catholic," and "low" church or "broad") on points of liturgy and doctrine...
...tales that appeal to everyone who wishes this life were more adventurous than it is, Sir Walter Scott ranks high among English authors. His admirers will find his characters even more daring and his settings more romantic after atending the lecture to be given this after noon on "The Scotland of Sir Walter Scott" by Professor Hersey. It is at 2 o'clock in Emerson J and will be illustrated...
Alice Anne Montgomery, Duchess (in her own right) of Buckingham and Chandos, returned from Scotland with her usual autumn armful of water colors, including one of a woman 86 years old which Her Grace calls Grannie in the Moors...