University of Glasgow
Gothic Revival university on a hilltop, with cloisters, quadrangles and centuries of famous alumni.
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This guide to the University of Glasgow follows John Boyd Orr, a farm-country lad from Ayrshire who studied arts here, taught in a classroom, and then came back to read medicine. It touches on Glasgow's slums, a doctoral thesis about starvation, and the question of what a nation's schoolchildren actually eat. Best heard in the main quadrangle, among the halls where he studied.
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