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Success story that must be saved for the nation

Hervey Gibson: When Glasgow University became too stingy to pay properly, Adam Smith educated a young local Duke. Now, lack of money there threatens to darken Dumfries.

Hervey Gibson Doon hame in Dumfries we did well out of the Enlightenment. Burns wrote his songs here, Carlyle was a local and Maxwell just about invented light. When Glasgow University became too stingy to pay properly, Adam Smith educated our young local Duke.