Word: scotlanders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...approached with knowledge of how much the three senior British universities owe to historical accident. Principal Irvine seems to imply that the college system can be created quite easily, that it has been so created revived in the new Universities of England and revived in the old universities of Scotland all of which I believe fake...
...Baron and Baroness Byng sailed from Quebec on the Empress of France, the newly appointed Governor General, Freeman Freeman-Thomas, Viscount Willingdon (TIME, June 21), embarked with Lady Willingdon at Southampton on the Empress of Scotland. Meanwhile Mr. King had formed the following Cabinet...
...following special article was written by Sir James Irvine, president of St. Andrew's University, the largest center of learning in Scotland. Sir James is on the board of administrators of the Harkness Fund, which was established two years ago to promote Anglo-American friendship by sending British graduate students to this country...
...tests of admission have, until recently, consisted of a fortnight of gruelling examinations: however, in Scotland we are going to try a new plan much like your certificate system, by which a man will be admitted on the basis of his record time, but it may also give a fresh opportunity to men who may be read scholars, although not necessarily good writers of examinations...
...Scotland, Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, famed Norwegian explorer of North Pole regions, onetime (1906-08) Norwegian Minister to the Court of St. James's, donned ermine and was ensconced as rector, for one year, of ancient St. Andrews University...