This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...in turn, the kindest of all hosts, introduced us to a bigger colony of our countrymen, in the shape of the Aberdeen University Club, of which he was one of the founders. Such were the good offices rendered to the little colony. The rest remained to the individual efforts of the indwellers, as our Scots ancestors would ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...in turn, the kindest of all hosts, introduced us to a bigger colony of our countrymen, in the shape of the Aberdeen University Club, of which he was one of the founders. Such were the good offices rendered to the little colony. The rest remained to the individual efforts of the indwellers, as our Scots ancestors would have said; and how the two doctors have "made good" is known to everybody. It was a great struggle, done largely on "borrowed capital," as Keith frankly admitted at the dinner; but it made men of them. To-day, the Kraal is dingier than ever, for it is tenantless and forlorn and the drab street in which it stands is drabber, for it has reached that period of obvious deterioration which the falling in of leases denotes in a London street. We are all separated, in different wigwams of our own, and we rarely see each other, for you may live in the same street as an old friend in this desert of bricks and mortar and never chance to meet him; but those days remain an imperishable memory, for, as Keith suggested, they were nothing more or less than a post-graduate curriculum to us all. I have told the story, not from any desire to be autobiographical, and not from any idea that it is unique. On the contrary, I believe it is quite a common experience with men from the north--so common, in fact, that no other Chairman of the Club has ever thought worth recalling it, though the intentness with which the crowded table in the Monico listened to Keith, is likely to lead to a new and ideal kind of after-dinner reminiscence on those occasions--that is, supposing future Chairmen have the insight, the idealism, the "charrum" (as Maggie Wyllie would say), the courage, the humour, and the gratitude of Arthur Keith, who, now as then, ...
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