FROM THE ARCHIVES

25 YEARS AGO THE Court of Glasgow University yesterday approved a plan for devolving spending powers and day-to-day decision making to about 20 new planning units. Sir William Fraser, Principal of the university, which is the biggest in Scotland, said in an interview with the Glasgow Herald that introducing business-like methods was not hostile to the academic tradition. He did not envisage redundancies. 50 YEARS AGO POLICE last night appealed for information about a “man with dark eyes,” who might also have a scar on his face, following the daylight theft yesterday of the football World Cup from a locked and guarded exhibition room at the Central Hall, Westminster. Six security guards were on duty when the thief, ignoring stamps worth £3 million, removed a padlock to open the back of the glass-fronted cabinet inside which the gold cup rested on a blue-draped plinth. 100 YEARS AGO THE exhibition of the remarkable series of submarine motion pictures that began on Wednesday last in St Andrew’s Halls, Glasgow, is continued this week. Many of these wonderful pictures were taken at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, among the Bahama Islands and British possessions in the West Indies, by the Williamson Submarine Expedition, which was specially fitted out for the purpose. The flora and fauna of the ocean depths are beautifully illustrated. 150 YEARS AGO AT a time when so many of the working men of this city are improving their position, it was thought by the operative bakers that no class stood more in need of a shortening of their hours of labour than they. After taking the whole question into serious consideration, they resolved to apply to their employers to grant them a half-holiday on Saturdays. They intend to memorialise them to that effect in the beginning of the month.