Classical Association Jubilee

1953 ◽  
Vol 22 (66) ◽  
pp. 97-97
Author(s):  
T. B. L. Webster
Keyword(s):  
King's College ◽  
Classical Studies ◽  
University College ◽  
Lecture Theatre ◽  
History Of ◽  
University College London ◽  
Excellent Work ◽  
Classical Association ◽  
The University ◽  
Work Done

The Classical Association was founded in December 1903 in the Botany Lecture Theatre of University College, London. University College has invited the Association to celebrate its Jubilee there from 7 to 10 April 1954. Invitations have been received from the University, King's College, and Westminster School to hold part of the functions in their buildings and a special exhibition of new books is being arranged by the University Library. In connexion with the Jubilee an appeal is being issued to members with the object of raising a small working capital to avoid the necessity of increasing the subscription, which in spite of growing membership no longer produces enough to cover the increased cost of printing and provides no margin for extra activities.It is hoped that the Hon. Secretary, Professor L. J. D. Richardson, will give the opening lecture on the history of the Association. Headings will clearly be: the foundation of local branches in this country and of parallel associations in the Commonwealth, the establishment of the Association's three journals, the institution of school reading competitions, and the excellent work done by the Education Sub-Committee. During its fifty years of life the Association has endeavoured to fulfil the objects laid down in the rules. Two recent activities are designed particularly ‘to encourage investigation and call attention to new discoveries’ and ‘to create opportunities for friendly intercourse’, viz. participation in the Joint Committee of Greek and Roman Societies, which runs the successful triennial meetings at Oxford and Cambridge, and membership of the International Federation of Classical Studies, whose next conference will be in Copenhagen in August 1954.

The life and death of laboratory teaching of medical physiology: a personal narrative. Part I.

1993 ◽  
Vol 264 (6) ◽  
pp. S16 ◽  
Author(s):  
H W Davenport
Keyword(s):  
Personal Narrative ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Laboratory Course ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
University College ◽  
History Of ◽  
University College London ◽  
Laboratory Teaching ◽  
The University

Part I of this essay sketches the history of laboratory teaching of medical physiology in England from the perspective of the author as a student at Oxford from 1935 to 1938. The systematic laboratory teaching that began in the 1870s at University College London under William Sharpey was carried to Oxford, as well as to other English and Scottish universities, by Sharpey's junior colleagues. C. S. Sherrington added mammalian experiments, and C. G. Douglas and J. G. Priestley added experiments on human subjects. The author describes his experience as a student in the Oxford courses and tells how he learned physiology by teaching it from 1941 to 1943 in the laboratory course established at the University of Pennsylvania by Oxford-trained physiologist Cuthbert Bazett.

scholarly journals The Manuscbipts collected by William Marsden with special reference to two copies of Almeida's “History of Ethiopia”

1922 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 513-538
Author(s):  
E. Denison Ross
Keyword(s):  
Special Reference ◽  
King's College ◽  
Equivalent Number ◽  
University College ◽  
History Of ◽  
Oriental Studies ◽  
The University

When in 1916 the School of Oriental Studies was established on the old premises of the London Institution in Finsbury Circus, an agreement was come to whereby King's College, University College, and the University of London handed over to the School as a temporary loan all their Oriental books, in exchange for an equivalent number of European books belonging to the Library of the Institution.

‘Patriots and Professors’: A Century of Roman Studies, 1910–2010

Britannia ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 1-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Stray
Keyword(s):  
Roman Society ◽  
Classical Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Classical Association ◽  
The University

ABSTRACTThis essay offers a survey of the history of the Roman Society during the 100 years since its foundation in 1910. It discusses relations with other classical bodies, especially the Hellenic Society and the Classical Association; the Society's fragile finances until the 1950s; and the key role played over several decades by its Secretary, Margerie Taylor. Separate sections deal with the Society's library; its journals, the Journal of Roman Studies (1911) and Britannia (1970); membership and finance; and relations with schools, amateur archaeologists and the University of London, whose Institute of Classical Studies has housed the Society's office and library since 1958.

scholarly journals John Beresford Leathes, 1864-1956

1958 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 185-191
Keyword(s):  
College Football ◽  
Henry Viii ◽  
Classical Scholar ◽  
Greek Poetry ◽  
King's College ◽  
University College ◽  
Science Laboratories ◽  
University College London ◽  
Classical Association

John Beresford Leathes who died at Montreux on 14 September 1956, in his 92nd year, was born on 5 November 1864. He was the second son of the Reverend Stanley Leathes, D.D., a Professor of Hebrew at King’s College, London, and Prebendary of St Paul s. His mother was Matilda Butt, who counted among her ancestors a Dr Butt, a physician to Henry VIII. His brother was Sir Stanley Leathes, K.C.B. He married Sonia Marie Natanson in 1896 in London, a Russian by birth, and a fine pianist. They had one daughter Margaret, who married Lionel Penrose, M.D., F.R.S., Professor of Genetics at University College, London. Leathes was educated at Winchester College, being a classical scholar from 1878 to 1883. While there, he had, as Prefect of Hall, to deliver the speech on the occasion of the visit of Mr Gladstone. This was in Latin and Mr Gladstone replied in English. Leathes was also Captain of the Winchester College football fifteen in 1883. His interest in classics was lifelong, and gave him pleasure in his retirement. It is said that on one occasion, he surprised Sheffield University Classical Association with a learned and delightful paper on Greek poetry. At Winchester, it is recorded that there were no science laboratories when he started his education, and evidently he had little teaching in science there.

scholarly journals Maurice Neville Hill, 1919-1966

1967 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 192-203
Keyword(s):  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
John Donne ◽  
The Other ◽  
King's College ◽  
The Family ◽  
University College ◽  
University College London ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
The University

Maurice Hill was born in Cambridge on 29 May 1919. His father was A. V. Hill, the distinguished physiologist, who was at that time a Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge. In 1913, A. V. Hill married Margaret Keynes, the sister of Maynard Keynes, the economist, and of Geoffrey Keynes, the surgeon and author of erudite bibliographies of William Harvey, John Donne and others. Margaret’s father was J. N. Keynes (1852-1949), Registrary to the University, a Fellow of Pembroke College until his marriage, and the author of a well-known book on statistics. His wife Florence Ada Keynes ( née Brown), who was one of the earliest students of Newnham College, was Mayor of Cambridge in 1932 and published two books, one when she was 86 and the other three years later. Maurice was the youngest of a family of four children, having one brother and two sisters. Shortly after Maurice’s birth, the family moved to Manchester where A. V. Hill became Professor of Physiology and received a Nobel Prize. In 1923 they moved to Highgate when A. V. Hill became Professor of Physiology at University College London. At the age of six Maurice went to Byron House School. His school reports have been preserved; they give a picture of an intelligent little boy with an ‘open, happy nature’, interested in many things but finding neatness in writing hard to attain. In 1928 he went to Highgate Junior School where he stayed for almost three years. His performance and reports were undistinguished and he was sent for a year and a half to Avondale, a boarding school at Clifton, near Bristol. Here his work at once improved and he was consistently near the top of his class. In 1932 he returned to Highgate and started in the Senior School as a day boy. He remained there till 1938. From the start he found an interest in physics and mathematics.

‘Patriots and Professors’: A Century of Roman Studies, 1910–2010

2010 ◽  
Vol 100 ◽  
pp. 1-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Stray
Keyword(s):  
Roman Society ◽  
Classical Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Classical Association ◽  
The University

ABSTRACTThis essay offers a survey of the history of the Roman Society during the 100 years since its foundation in 1910. It discusses relations with other classical bodies, especially the Hellenic Society and the Classical Association; the Society's fragile finances until the 1950s; and the key role played over several decades by its Secretary, Margerie Taylor. Separate sections deal with the Society's library; its journals, the Journal of Roman Studies (1911) and Britannia (1970); membership and finance; and relations with schools, amateur archaeologists and the University of London, whose Institute of Classical Studies has housed the Society's office and library since 1958.

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