Transcriber’s Note: Italic or underlined text is enclosed in _underscores_. Small capital text has been changed to all capital. Additional notes will be found near the end of this ebook. GLASGOW MEN AND WOMEN [Illustration: THE EARL OF LYTTON AS LORD RECTOR OF GLASGOW UNIVERSITY _Frontispiece_ A Rosebud garden of Girls With the adjacent Professors Professor Simpson’s Introductory Paper “Patient and Attentive Hearing” The Clerk to the Senate “Milton’s Memorable Vision” “Educated Intellectual Youth of Scotland” Poet and Diplomatist LL.D. “And this from an Austrian Sabre When the field of Marengo was won” “Let me give you a preliminary instance”] GLASGOW MEN AND WOMEN THEIR CHILDREN AND SOME STRANGERS WITHIN THEIR GATES A SELECTION FROM THE SKETCHES OF TWYM BY A. S. BOYD LONDON HODDER AND STOUGHTON 27 PATERNOSTER ROW 1905 Printed by BALLANTYNE & CO. LIMITED Tavistock Street, London CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION 11 MUNICIPAL THE FOUNDATION-STONE 19 A RECEPTION AND AN OUTING 20 THE JUBILEE BALL 23 THE MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS 24 OPENING OF THE EXHIBITION 27 QUEEN VICTORIA AT THE EXHIBITION 28 THE SHAH OF PERSIA 31 FIRST COUNCIL MEETING IN THE NEW CHAMBERS 32 A CITY BALL 35 SHUNA 36 THE UNIVERSITY JOHN BRIGHT, LORD RECTOR 39 THE BUTE HALL 40 EDMUND LUSHINGTON, LORD RECTOR 43 THE EARL OF LYTTON, LORD RECTOR _Frontispiece_ A RECTORIAL ELECTION 44 BAZAAR IN THE UNIVERSITY 47