A GREAT RAG

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 85, 20 October 1928, Page 11

A GREAT RAG

BY GLASGOW STUDENTS MRS. MACPHERSON'S ORDEAL Australian Press Association—UnitsiJ Service. (Received 20th October, 2.45 p.m.) LONDON, 19th October. One thousand Glasgow undergraduates in hilarious mood in connection with the. rectorial elections gave an amazing reception to Mrs. Aimee Macpherson in the University Debating Hall. Four burly students squatted on tho floor below the platform playing pontoon, while others whisked empty beer rind whisky bottles from their pockets and placed a glass of beer in lieu of water on the speaker's table. Twelve girl students, under a notice "Ladies May Smoke" puffed eigarrettes. Placards were hung in the galleries inscribed "Have you brought your chewing gum" and "Here's to good old whisky." The card players shied their cards on the platform and everybody rose and sang, "Oh, Aimee dear, we love ' you so," and "Here's to good old whisky." One j student in the gallery lowered a beer bottle in front of the bewildered evangelist and paper streamers submerged the platform. Mrs. Macpherson coughed and refused the proffered glass of beer, and referred to her school days, evoking the chorus, "Old Soldiers Never Die." "I am scared stiff," she said. "Let's have a couple of minutes for the dear Lord Jesus." She then prayed emotionally amid a temporary silence, but a resumption of the uproar led the chair- | man to appeal for fair play, which resulted in a more courteous hearing. The interrupters were won by her story of an undertaker burying an atheist, re- | marking "Poor man. He does not be- ! lieve in Heaven or Hell and is all dressed up with nowhere to go." The students terminated the proceedings with the 'Varsity anthem, ; after which they tied streamers to the car in which Mrs. Macpherson drove off, j remarking, "They're just typical cdl- ' lege boys and girls."