The Right Stuff: Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton

The Right Stuff: Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton

The Right Stuff: Some Episodes in the Career of a North BritonThe first and most-serious-but-one ordeal in...
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Author: Hay, Ian,1876-1952
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The Right Stuff: Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton

The Right Stuff: Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton

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The Right Stuff: Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton

$18.44 $9.22
Author: Hay, Ian,1876-1952
Format: eBook
Language: English

The Right Stuff: Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton

The first and most-serious-but-one ordeal in the life of Robert Chalmers Fordyceso Robert Chalmers himself informed me years afterwardswas the examination for the Bursary which he gained at Edinburgh University. A bursary is what an English undergraduate would call a "Schol." (Imagine a Scottish student talking about a "Burse"!) Robert Chalmers Fordyce arrived in Edinburgh pretty evenly divided between helpless stupefaction at the sight of a great city and stern determination not to be imposed upon by the inhabitants thereof. His fears were not as deep-seated as those of Tom Pinch on a similar occasion,he, it will be remembered, suffered severe qualms from his familiarity with certain rural traditions concerning the composition of London pies,but he was far from happy. He had never slept away from his native hillside before; he had never seen a town possessing more than three thousand inhabitants; and he had only once travelled in a train. Moreover, he was proceeding to an inquisition which would decide once and for all whether he was to go forth and conquer the world with a university education behind him, or go back to the plough and sup porridge for the rest of his life. To-morrow he was to have his opportunity, and the consideration of how that opportunity could best be gripped and brought to the ground blinded Robin even to the wonders of the Forth Bridge. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 20904
Author: Hay, Ian
Release Date: Mar 25, 2007
Format: eBook
Language: English

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