AIMEE "RAGGED."

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 249, 20 October 1928, Page 9

AIMEE "RAGGED."

UPROARIOUS SCENES.

Glasgow Students Set Out To

Shock Evangelist.

BEES, CIGARETTES AND OABDS.

(Australian Press Assn.—United Berries.)

(Received 2 p.m.)

LONDON, October 19.

One thousand undergraduates of Glasgow University, in hilarious mood on the occasion of the rectorial elections, gave an amazing reception to the American evangelist, Mrs. Aimee McPherson.

In the University debating hall four 1 burly students squatted on the floor below the platform, playing pontoon. Others whisked empty beer and whisky bottles from their pockets and placed a glass of beer, in lieu of water, on the speaker's table. Twelve .girl students, under the notice, "Ladies May Smoke," puffed cigarettes. Placards hung from the galleries were inscribed, "Have you brought your chewing gumt" and "Here's to good old whisky-"

The card players snied tnelr cards on the platform, and everybody rose and sang, ''Oh, Aimee, dear, we love you so. Do we? Hell! Here's to good old whisky."

A student in the gallery lowered a beer bottle in front of the bewildered evangelist, while paper streamers submerged the platform.

Mrs. McPherson coughed and refused the proffered glass of beer. She referred to her school days, and the students responded with the chorus, "Old Soldiers Never Die."

"I am 'scared stiff," she said. "Let's have a couple of minutes for dear Lord Jesus." She prayed emotionally amid a temporary silence, but a resumption of the uproar led the chairman to ap-

peal for fair play, with the result that she was given a courteous hearing.

The interrupters were won over by her story of an undertaker burying an atheist, remarking: "Poor man, he doesnt believe in heaven or helL He's all dressed up and nowhere to go." The students terminated the proceedings by singing the 'Varsity anthem, and tied streamers to the car in which Mrs. McPherson drove off. "They're just typical college boys and girls," she remarked.