Links With The United States
The university has a strong link with the United States. Significant numbers of students matriculate from the United States. Many important American figures (and emigrants to the United States) from Scotland have been associated with the university:
- Andrew Carnegie, Lord Rector of the University. See the following link to the NY Times article which documents his controversial Inaugural Address: LORD RECTOR CARNEGIE.
- Bobby Jones, golfer.
- Guy Sands-Pingot, Brigadier General, USAR, researcher at the university.
- Bob Dylan, awarded honorary degree.
- Michael Douglas, awarded honorary degree.
- Jonathan Taylor Thomas, actor, exchange student.
- Arnold Palmer honorary Doctor of Laws
- Jack Nicklaus honorary Doctor of Laws
- Tom Watson honorary Doctor of Laws
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Famous quotes containing the words united states, links with, links, united and/or states:
“I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother’s side was not an Indian chief.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
“All nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original human invention. Those who dismiss names as a detail have never been displaced; but the peoples on the peripheries are always being displaced. That is why they insist upon their continuity—their links with their dead and the unborn.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)
“My sister and I, you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two souls which are so closely allied.”
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)
“The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.”
—Grover Cleveland (1837–1908)
“How many people in the United States do you think will be willing to go to war to free Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania?”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)