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Show Glasgow University Rector Showered With Eggs, Fruit GLASGOW, Scotland Glasgow University has a new rector, but not without a bit of a ruckus. Dr. John MacCormick took office in a shower of tomatoes, firecrackers and rotten eggs. Rattles, bells, shouts and piercing blasts of a trumpet drowned out the speech-making. speech-making. A live duck flung on the platform by angry students lurched around under the feet of the assembled dignitaries. When it was all over, Dr. MacCormick, Mac-Cormick, daubbing at egg, and tomato stains on his suit, told reporters: re-porters: "One of the liveliest installations in-stallations I've ever seen." Dr. MacCormick, one of the best hated and best loved men in Scotland, Scot-land, was elected rector in a lively campaign a month before. He is chairman of the Scottish Covenant association which demands a greater great-er measure of home rile for the highlands. The association claims it is supported by 60 to 70 per cent of the Scottish people. |