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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23RD, 1923.

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SCOTTISH - LETTER

MR KIPLING AND ST. ANDREW'S. HOW SCOTS STUDENTS ARE BLEST,

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

fost doop, into which the Atinutie rolis at high tide. The green" is a plateau of beautiful turf about 10 yards square, the far away side of which slopes down to a sandy beach about 1 Feet below the level of the green. The skill required in play- ing this hole is considerable, my correspon

T It the player is short déüs points out. with his pitch he lande in the gully, ami vu should he strike the middle of the green with a slight run he is almost vers t to go over the slope on the opposite side. The only way is to drop dead on the with a high dropping shot, which calls for very accurate play. MRS. HUMPHREY WARD, ·

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EDINBURGH, October 17th. Possibly it was the ult of the mental upheaval following the Great War that in 1919 caused the students of St. Andrew's University to depart from precedent and elect a literary man, Sir James Barrie, as thair Rector, The experiment proved brilliant success, and in the present year they chose Mr. Rudyard Kipling as their

The appearance of an official life" of representative Mr. Kipling has just been the late Mrs. Humphrey Ward reminds me installed Lord Rector of the University in of the one occasion on which I had the the old grey city hy the Northern Shor of meeting this awfully serious and, and along with Mr. Baldwin this wousin), to my taste, awfully dull novelist She Earl Haig, and other distinguished per- was. I am told by her friends, exceedingly sons, has received the Honorary Degree of like her books portentous and totally Doctor of Laws, The occasion, as a matter devoid of humour. About 13 of course, was made the excuse for a students carnival, and for one short week the plus four of the golfers had to retire behind the red gowns of the under graduates.

The gist of Mr. Kipling's Rectorial address has been cabled far and wide over the globe, but I think indeed I know that one part of it was not thus broad

That ensted.

because it referred That, how specially to Scuts students ever, is just the reason why it should be particularly noticed in a Scottish letter. As you know, Mr. Kipling took as his

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was at a semi-literary gathering in Lou- don nt which there were a lot of very well- known people. All these lions and lioness es, excrpt one, walked about just like ordinary human beings and made them wives agreeable to bumble folk like me. The exception was Mrs. Humphrey, Ward, She sat in a large armchair in ans corner crowd of worshippers, and every now and Hemming her about was a en ne frightened debutante (male of female) would be led up and presented, as it were, at Court, -watched Mrs, Ward' face for a while to me if she really tink She did Her manner was exactly that of a royal per- sunsze beying to gracious to bailies. Then I withdrew to laugh.

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PRESCRIPTIONS

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When the Doctor prescribes he expects the Draggist to all the prescription with Fare Drags. The quality of our Drugs, Medicines and Toilet Goods" ja "not surpassed Have the Doctor's** Prescription Slled acre and the result will be antisfactory!

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umerated three blessing which he be lieved the average youth in the Scottish Universities to enjoy. La the first place, it was by reason of the self-denial exercised by their forbents that many of them were enabled to eater professions and callings in which they would be given free scape to realise their powers." "Again, they in- herited a strong sense of race.conscious news. In lively vein Mr. Kipling pictured modern Scots associating as their ances tors had done for prelatory purposes which now take the form of raiding "the world in all departments of life- and Government. To their "gathering and games he attributed special signi- ficance as

a kind of reinitiation into primal individualism. Scottish people are aid to have a guid conceit" of them- selves, and, if that is so, it is because they feel the potency of a tradition of per sonal responsibility and capacity. In the third they have been brought up,

place

to do without Mr, Kipling said, things," to make a little go a long way And to fend for themselves Undoubtelly this hard training confers special advan tages in the battle of life, if it has also me disadvantages in respect of its neglect

A Scotsman in Paris danced the. High- land Fling to the music of the bagpipes played in Aberdeen! Mr. John M. Camp- bell has been telling his friends tent on the occasion of the opening of the Aberdeen station there was a small party of Scottish people in his rooms in Paris, five of them Aberdonians. Mr. Campbell has a home- made two-valve receiving wet.

The speaking was very clent; Pvery word could be heard distinctly by all in the TOOK. When the pipes player," he added, "several of us got up and danced a Highland Fling."

R. L. STEVENSON'& FAME,

It has been definitely decided by the. Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship to open a fund for the erection of a statue to the famous Edinburgh novelist and poet. Which reminds me of an incident in can- S. nection with the bronze statue of R. L. 1 exhibited at Glasgow Exhibition in 1901. visitor. Who is that?" naked a

A young policeman informed Stevenson,"

the him. When the visitor passed on policeman turned to me and remarked,

of the finer reial amenities. It turns out Fancy Scotsman not knowing the man

type in Mr. Kipling's opinionless who invented the railway engine" given to muddle or mishandle moral, in-fightMERICK BY ANDREW LANII, tellectual, and emotional issues than men the world knew Androw Lang in many whose wastage has never been checked, or

dods. He used at various intervals to There has been made good by others."

te limericks for Dunder Gollage: much

truth in the estimate, even if the thus mood the world did not know. reference to little catmeal has no longer cre is one of them any teral annlication to the circuts

While on the

stance ide the unbri intellectuel and tigere is also a hilly ca'd Shelley.

"lad o

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of the aver-That lived upon cookies and jelly," stimulating. 2 pairts

"And gtew ́lcán as a pen. . *

Till his friends didnā, ken, sch of social be admitted that in the manners and deportment it

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ess defective, Frottish is apt to ho Which his back way, and which was his

sets.

perhaps too little, store on that aspect of

belly.

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culture than on hard thinking and frugal CB. WARREN CO... living There will be no disposition to cavid at Mr. Kipling's statement that it is bard to liberalise persons who have done their own weighing and measuring with broken teacups, by the light of tallow candles, even if it be felt that the picture partakes of caricature

SCOTTISH CHURCH UNION.

It is understood that the bill to deal with the property and endowments of the Church of Scotland is in an advanced state of preparation and will be ready for intro- duction by the Government when Parlia ment meets next month. The measur will follow generally the lines of the Report of Lord Haldane's Committee. It is the Government's intention to plaer it on the Statute Book before the General Assian- blica mest in May.

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A DUKE, A DUCHESS, AND LEISURE.

The Duchess of Atholl spoke in Dundee last week on Youth and the Right Usc uf Leisure." In opening the meeting Lord Provost Spene read the following telegram from the Duke of Athell: Un derstand Duchess to speak this evening on how to take leisure She doesn't know what the darned thing is, but wish you good luck all the same. Sorry unable accompany her owing same reason."

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The following item has been thought in- portant enough to be cabled from America, and may therefore, receive a place in in Scottish letter. Interviewed by the Nig Fork Times, as to the reason for his persia tent refusal of drinks offered him, Mr. Gerald Leighton, a Scottish delegate to the Dairy Congress, said he did not in- tend to violata thẻ V.S laws while be was a guest of the country. ENGAGEMENT

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