Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-12
TELLS OF UNIVERSITY
ScotIand'S Seat of Learning;
Carnegie Pays Fees.
BOTH SEXES ARE RECEIVED
Practical Institution Where Stu
dents Enter Into the Management.
HAD MANY FAMOUS RECTORS
Lord Kelvin, It's Late Chancellor,
Ranked Among the Greatest
Scientists and Scholars.
HAD MANY FAMOUS RECTORS

Scientists and Scholars.
BY WILLIAM f. CURTIS.
Special Correspondence OF The Star and the
Chicago Record Herald.
GLASGOW. September g. 1905.
The University of Glasgow has recently
suffered an irreparable loss by the death
of it's chancellor. the Ri. Hon. Lord Kelvin,
who is often ranked as the most eminent
man of his generation, and was certainly
among the first scientists and scholars of
his time. He was better known as Sir
William Thompson, and became distin-
gushed as the engineer who laid the first
Atlantic cable. His inventions made sub
marine telegraphy possible. His devices
enabled Sir William Fender and Cyrus w.
Field to unreel bunch of copper wires
from the stern of a steamer, let them sink
to the bed of the ocean, and then talk to
each other over them from end to end.
He invented the mirror receiver, which
was necessary, because the electric cur
rent was so weak after 1900 miles in salt
water, that the ear of an operator could
not always catch the sound, while his eye
could catch the flash when magnified upon
a reflector. Sir William Thompson discov-
cred a method by which the repair ships
could locate a break in the cable. even In
midocean, which is one of the most mys-
FERROUS and wOnderful OF all the lnVen-
tons of men.
He did many other famous things. The
iron and steel industry owes great part
of it's progress and success to his genius.
Every country in the world has been
benefited by his brains more than its peo-
pie can estimate. Queen Victoria &C
knowledge his right to knighthood. and
afterward made him a peer, but political
honOrs had very little value to man of
his intellect.
Scholarly Lord Kelvin.
Lord Kelvin was born in Belfast of
Scotch parents, his father being James
Thompson, LID, professor of mathe-
mates in the Presbyterian College there.
Kelvin entered college when he was only
ten years old and studied with men who
were twice his age. He graduated at
fourteen. and went to Cambridge. where.
after three years course, he took his
degree as doctor of philosophy when he
was only seventeen. and went back to
Belfast with his arms full of prizes for
superiority in mathematics, astronomy,
philosophy and the natural sciences In
1916, when he. was only twenty-five years
old. he was elected professor Of natural
sciences at Glasgow University, and re-
manned in the faculty Of that institution
sixty-One years. until his death in 1907,
having been elected chancellor three years
before.
His record is without a parallel as
scholar. instructor and inventor, and as
we study his career, here at his home, we
do not wonder that he was said to be
the greatest man in Britain. He turned
his attention to electricity at an early
day. and in that field. l have already
told you, made his greatest achievements.
But there was scarcely any field of sci
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with his genius. He was a member of all
the great learned societies in the world.
He was paid the highest honors that
professional man could receive from every
civilized nation. He could have had his
choice of chairs in any university of Eu-
rope. and no institution ever received
severer blow than Glasgow suffered at
his death.
His place as chancellor of the university
has not yet been filed but Prof Donald
MacAliSter, the vice chancellor, continues
to act as the head of the institution, and
the Ri. Hon. Herbert Henry Asauith
the prime minister OF Englaid is the
rector.
Famous Religious Scholar.
Another famous scholar of Glasgow and
one of the greatest of modern Scots.
whose death a few years ago brought
sorrow to all the thinking world, was
Henry Drummond. professor of natural
sciences in the Free Church College of
| the Presbyterian denomination. One of
his eulogists has said that 'he supremely
mastered the art of living" Drummond
was a very versatile man. pre-eminent in
every field of activity-as a scientist, an
| explorer. lecturer and instructor-and
his usefulness in religious work was quite
as great as in scholarship. He was an
| intimate friend of Mr.. Moody, and spent
two years as an evangelist. following him
| in Great Britain. When Moody would fin
ish his series of meetings in one city and
pass on the next, DrummOnd would con-
| tinue the work until Moody moved again
| Then Drummond would take the next
| step after him. Moody once said that
! Drummond was the finest character he
| knew, while Drummond said that Moody
was the greatest human figure of his
| time.
Henry Drummond was born in 1851,
under the shadow of Stirling Castle,
where his father and grandfathers for
| two or three generations cultivated a
nursery and sold plants and seeds. A
brother still continues the business at
| the old stand Henry was intended for
| the ministry. When he was fifteen years
| old he went to Edinburgh University. and
after he was graduated from the theo-
logical department he was ordained to
preach.
Gave Up Ministry for Science.
But, before accepting a charge. he went
to a German university. where his
thoughts were directed from religion to
science. and he gave up his ministerial
career when he was appointed professor
of natural sciences in the Free Presby-
terrain College of Glasgow. He made va
| rious explorations in Africa and in the
islands of the sea. He wrote volumes in
the line of his profession. He mad.
many inventions and discoveries of great
| importance to the manufacturing indus
| tries of Glasgow and educated hundreds
| He visited the United States several
times. He knew Lowell Longfellow. EN-