Calendar of Plea and Memoranda Rolls Preserved among the Archives of the Corporation of the City of London at the Guildhall ad. 1413-1437. Edited by A. H. Thomas. Cambridge: The University Press, 1943. Pp. xli, 369. $3.75.

1946 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-107
Author(s):  
Sylvia L. Thrupp
Keyword(s):  
The University ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City

scholarly journals J.W. McConnell and the Chancellorship of McGill University, 1942–3

Fontanus ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Fong
Keyword(s):  
Wall Street ◽  
International Nickel Company ◽  
Board Of Governors ◽  
War Effort ◽  
Mcgill University ◽  
Business Acumen ◽  
The University ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City ◽  
Major Shareholder

J.W. McConnell (1877–1963) was one of the most successful Canadian businessmen of his time, and possibly the richest man in Canada for much of his life. A promoter of stocks early in his career, he soon became a major industrialist and investor. He was president of St. Lawrence Sugar Refineries Limited for almost fifty years and publisher of the Montreal Daily Star and other newspapers for almost twenty-five. Among the companies of which he was a major shareholder were the International Nickel Company of Canada, Brazilian Traction, Montreal Tramways, Montreal Light, Heat and Power, Ogilvie Flour Mills, Canada Steamship Lines, and Borden. His reputation spread to Wall Street and the City of London, not only for his business acumen but also for his great generosity to medical and educational causes. He was one of the principal founders of the Montreal Neurological Institute. From 1909 to 1927, he was one of the most effective fundraisers in the country, for the YMCA, the war effort through Victory Loans, and the hospitals of Montreal. And for the remainder of his life he was the most generous contributor to good causes in Montreal if not in Canada as a whole.With Lord Strathcona and Sir William Macdonald, he became one of the three greatest benefactors of McGill. After the death of Sir Edward Beatty, the Chancellor of the university, in 1943, McConnell was a natural candidate to succeed him. The board of governors, who were responsible for choosing a new Chancellor, were nearly all businessmen like him, and his assumption of the post would have been indeed in the tradition of James Ferrier, Strathcona, Macdonald and Beatty. But McConnell did not become Chancellor, and this is the story of why he did not. In abbreviated form, this was published in chapter 17 of the author’s biography of McConnell in 2008. This article however presents considerably more detail.ResuméJ.W. McConnell (1877–1963) fut un des hommes d’affaires les plus prospères de son époque, et possiblement un des hommes les plus riches du Canada pour la plus grande partie de sa vie. Promoteur d’actions au début de sa carrière, il devint rapidement un industriel et un investisseur d’importance. Il fut président de la compagnie St. Lawrence Sugar Refineries Limited pendant presque cinquante ans, et éditeur du Montreal Daily Star et de divers autres journaux pendant presque vingt-cinq ans. Il fut un actionnaire important de plusieurs compagnies, notamment International Nickel Company of Canada, Brazilian Traction, Montreal Tramways, Montreal Light, Heat and Power, Ogilvie Flour Mills, Canada Steamship Lines, et Borden. Sa réputation se progagea jusqu’à Wall Street et Londres, non seulement pour sa perspicacité en affaires mais aussi pour sa grande générosité envers les bonnes causes dans les domaines de la medecine et de l’éducation. Il fut un des fondateurs principaux de l’Institut neurologique de Montréal. De 1909 à 1927, il fut un collecteur de fonds les plus efficaces au Canada, au profit de l’organisme YMCA, de l’effort de guerre par le biais du programme des Prêts de la victoire, et des hôpitaux montréalais. Il demeura pour le reste de sa vie un fort généreux contributeur aux bonnes causes à Montréal, sinon au Canada tout entierAvec Lord Strathcona et Sir William Macdonald, il devint une des trois plus grands bienfaiteurs de l’Université McGill. Après la mort de Sir Edward Beatty, le chancelier de l’Université, en 1942, McConnell fut un candidat tout désigné pour lui succéder. Les membres du Conseil des gouverneurs, qui avaient la responsabilité de choisir un nouveau chancelier, étaient presque tous des hommes d’affaire comme lui, et il aurait été dans la tradition de James Ferrier, Strathcona, Macdonald et Beatty que McConnell accède à ce poste. Toutefois, McConnell ne devint pas chancelier, et ceci est l’histoire qui raconte pourquoi il ne l’est pas devenu. Elle a été publiée sous la forme du chapitre 17 de la biographie de McConnell. Cet article, toutefois, présente considérablement plus de détails.

scholarly journals Robert Alexander Frazer, 1891-1959

1961 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 75-84 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Prime Minister ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
Private Life ◽  
London School ◽  
The Family ◽  
Four Books ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City

Robert Alexander Frazer was born in the City of London on 5 February 1891. His father, Robert Watson Frazer, LL.B., had retired from the Madras Civil Service and had become Principal Librarian and Secretary of the London Institution at Finsbury Circus, whence in the following two decades he produced four books on India and its history, of which perhaps the best known was one published in the ‘Story of the Nations’ Series by Fisher Unwin, Ltd., in 1895. The family lived at the Institution and Robert was born there. Young Frazer proceeded in due course to the City of London School where he did remarkably well and won several scholarships and medals. By the time he was eighteen years of age, the City Corporation, desiring to commemorate the distinction just gained by Mr H. H. Asquith, a former pupil of the school, on his appointment as Prime Minister, founded the Asquith Scholarship of £100 per annum tenable for four years at Cambridge. It thus came about that at the school prize-giving in 1909 the Lord Mayor announced that the new Asquith Scholarship had been conferred on Frazer, who was so enabled to proceed to Pembroke College, Cambridge, that autumn. Frazer, in the course of his subsequent career, had two other formal links with London. In 1911 he was admitted to the Freedom of London in the Mayoralty of Sir Thomas Crosby, having been an Apprentice of T. M. Wood, ‘Citizen and Gardener of London’; and in 1930 he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science by the University of London. The former may or may not have been a pointer to his subsequent ability as a gardener in private life; the latter was certainly a well-deserved recognition of his scientific work at the time.

scholarly journals Signalling the ‘Multi-Local’ University? The Place of the City in the Growth of London-Based Satellite Campuses, and the Implications for Social Stratification

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (10) ◽  
pp. 195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Brooks ◽  
Johanna Waters
Keyword(s):  
Social Stratification ◽  
International Student ◽  
Campus Environment ◽  
Internationalisation Of Higher Education ◽  
Almost All ◽  
And Function ◽  
The University ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

Around 2009 some UK universities (based outside of the capital) began to open ‘satellite campuses’ in London. There are currently 14 such campuses at present, which have been developed primarily with an international student market in mind. Concerns have been raised, however, about the quality of teaching on these campuses and the fact that student attainment is ostensibly falling significantly below that for the ‘home’ campus. This project is the first of its kind to investigate, systematically, the ways in which universities are representing themselves in relation to these campuses (data include an analysis of prospectuses, YouTube content, websites and material garnered at open days). Using these data, we discuss the role that the City of London plays as a pivotal backdrop to these developments: the way it serves to substitute and compensate for lower levels of resources provided directly to the student from the university (here we consider accommodation, the outsourcing of teaching, the absence of a substantive campus environment and a general lack of focus on ‘pedagogical’ matters in almost all marketing materials). Instead, the universities place London at the front and centre of attempts to ‘sell’ the campus to potential students. The paper makes some innovative conceptual links between work in migration studies on the role and function of global cities in attracting workers and the way in which the city operates in this case to attract international students. These campuses feed into debates around the increasing inequalities evidenced as a consequence of the internationalisation of higher education, even when such developments are ostensibly ‘domestic’.

scholarly journals Prosaic sites of multiculturalism as educational encounters in neo-liberal higher education: Sociological imagination and reflexive teaching and learning in the multicultural classroom

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 229-241
Author(s):  
Magali Peyrefitte
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Sociological Imagination ◽  
First Year ◽  
Structural Constraints ◽  
Higher Education And Society ◽  
The University ◽  
Education And Society ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City

The article reflects on the pedagogy of a first-year sociology and criminology module that was developed around the idea of ‘Researching the City’ in order to introduce students to the methodological and analytical processes of doing research in social science. Part of the assessment strategy centres around a weekly online diary which enables students to use positionality by way of reflecting on their experience of the city, of London, most specifically, due to the location of the university and the origin of the students. Expanding on Ash Amin’s idea of ‘prosaic sites of multiculturalism’, the article argues in favour of the transformative potential of a pedagogy that value experiential knowledge and is responsive to this form of knowledge in providing the theoretical and methodological tools to make sense of personal experiences in relation to structures and structural constraints. In this, the pedagogy works to develop a sociological imagination as a pedagogical route to empowering students in and out of the classroom in opposition to a neo-liberal ethos that instead values individualisation and competitiveness and is at present transforming higher education and society as a whole in the United Kingdom.

scholarly journals The case for a student run clinic in London

2018 ◽  
Vol 87 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-30
Author(s):  
Yara Abou-Hamde ◽  
Adam Hopfgartner
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Primary Healthcare ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Clinical Skills ◽  
Foot Care ◽  
Professional Students ◽  
Healthcare Needs ◽  
The University ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City

Student Run Clinics (SRCs) are an emerging form of primary healthcare involving the collaboration of students and licensed health care professionals. SRCs aim to identify healthcare needs in the community and to meet those needs with supervised clinical and non-clinical services, education, and outreach. The SRC model provides students with direct patient interaction to complement classroom learning and develop extracurricular clinical skills. The Alliance of Students Providing Interprofessional Resources and Education (ASPIRE) is a new interdisciplinary student group from the University of Western Ontario, Fanshawe College, and the University of Waterloo. Using established Canadian SRCs as a framework, ASPIRE is working to start a London-based SRC. A recent review of healthcare needs and social determinants of health completed by ASPIRE for the City of London identified a high incidence of mental health conditions and HIV in the community. Furthermore, the adequate provision of primary healthcare in London is complicated by transportation issues, financial constraints, and language barriers among underserved and minority populations. These concerns may be addressed by care provided by professional students from various disciplines organized by ASPIRE. The future of ASPIRE includes health promotion in the London community with presentations on topics such as opioid addiction and overdose prevention, diabetic foot care, and smoking cessation. ASPIRE will continue to work towards a transition into a larger role in health promotion and health advocacy, with the ultimate goal of establishing an SRC in the City of London.

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