I.—The First Season's Work. Preliminary Narrative

1888 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 149-174
Author(s):  
D. G. Hogarth
Keyword(s):  
Considerable Time ◽  
Subsequent Work ◽  
Classical Archaeology ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
Willingness To Help ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University

The movement in favour of organised research in Cyprus which, originating in the latter part of the summer of 1887, led before the end of the year to the formation of a Fund directed by a Committee comprising all those who are most prominent in supporting the study of Classical Archaeology in this country, has been set forth already in circulars and reports, and needs only a brief allusion here in order to explain the causes and conditions of our subsequent work at Old Paphos and other sites in the winter and spring of this year. In the early mouths of 1887, Dr. F. H. H. Guillemard, the well-known traveller and ornithologist, spent a considerable time in Cyprus, and in the less known parts of the island saw and heard so much of continual discoveries, legitimate and illegitimate, that, on his return to England, he lost no time in pressing the desirability of sending an expedition on many who were interested in matters archaeological, with the result that the University of Cambridge took into consideration the question of making a grant from the Worts Travelling Bachelor's Fund for that purpose. The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies was also sounded, and many circumstances conspired to induce their favourable consideration for such a proposal. Besides the valuable information communicated by Dr. Guillemard, it was known that the High Commissioner of Cyprus had resolved for sufficient reasons, which need not be detailed here, to discountenance in future all private exploration in the island, but at the same time had declared his willingness to help any work organised and conducted by a recognised scientific body: it resulted therefore that, unless such bodies undertook the task, no one would attempt to solve the many problems connected with the island for some years to come.

scholarly journals Observations on the Growth of Meningococciin vitroin Relation to Virulence: A Report to the Medical Research Council on Work Carried out at the University of Cambridge pathological laboratory and field Laboratories

1924 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. G. D. Murray ◽  
R. Ayrton
Keyword(s):  
Medical Research ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Medical Research Council ◽  
Culture Media ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University ◽  
Growth Of Bacteria

Every bacteriologist is only too well aware of the many problems presented by the preparation of culture media for the growth of bacteriain vitro.

scholarly journals The First Quarter of SARS-CoV-2 Testing: the University of Washington Medicine Experience

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander L. Greninger ◽  
Keith R. Jerome
Keyword(s):  
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Real Time Pcr ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Rt Pcr ◽  
University Of Washington ◽  
Clinical Laboratories ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University

ABSTRACT In early March 2020, the University of Washington Medical Center clinical virology laboratory became one of the first clinical laboratories to offer testing for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). When we first began test development in mid-January, neither of us believed there would be more than 2 million confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infections nationwide or that we would have performed more than 150,000 real-time PCR (RT-PCR) tests, with many more to come. This article will be a chronological summary of how we rapidly validated tests for SARS-CoV-2, increased our testing capacity, and addressed the many problems that came up along the way.

scholarly journals Popular Culture in the Muslim World

1996 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-108
Author(s):  
Dilnawaz A. Siddiqui
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Edmund Burke ◽  
American People ◽  
Cultural Divide ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
Economic Elites ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Masses ◽  
The University

Popular Culture in Medieval Cairo. By Boaz Shoshan. Cambridge, UK andNew York Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge, 1993.148 pp.Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East. By Edmund Burke, III(ed.). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1993,400 pp.Living Islam: From Samarkand to Stornoway. By Akbar Ahmed. NewYork: Facts on File, Inc., 1994.224 pp.One of the many expressions of the postmodernist revolt against themodernist western establishment is said to be its popular culture. The theoreticalliterature produced across this cultural divide often characterizes itin terms of two extremes: as a supreme expression of the true aspirations ofthe heretofore underprivileged masses or as a weapon in the hands of thetraditionally powerful political, social, and economic elites. The latter useit as a tool with which to manipulate the masses for their own respectiveagendas. A constant refrain of Hitler invoking Nazi supremacy over allhumanity, as well as our own self-serving politicians doing their own thingin the name of the “intelligent and well-informed will of the American people,”are only two of many examples of this instrument’s ubiquitous use.The Multiple Uses of Popular CultureThe vast grey area between these two margins includes umpteen otherdescriptions of popular culture, such as real “texture of our environment”and “adjustive syndrome,” and Matthew Arnold’s “heedless democratization.”In addition, there are such definitions as “banality” (Elliot), “reductionof the individual to basic instincts,” “titillation of the superficial senses”(Whitman), and “an expression denied by persistent puritanism and bourgeoispower” (Marx). Leavis also joined Arnold and Elliot in resisting thepopular resistance to “authority” found in traditional culture ...

scholarly journals Robert McNeill Alexander. 7 July 1934—21 March 2016

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon Alexander
Keyword(s):  
Legged Locomotion ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Muscle Fibres ◽  
Energy Costs ◽  
Subsequent Work ◽  
Animal Locomotion ◽  
Zoological Society ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
North Wales ◽  
The University

Neill Alexander graduated in natural sciences at the University of Cambridge in 1955. After a PhD at Cambridge and a lecturership at the University College of North Wales in Bangor, he was appointed to the chair of the Department of Pure and Applied Zoology at the University of Leeds in 1969. At that stage, he switched his research interests abruptly from fishes to the mechanics of legged locomotion. He conducted experiments with a variety of mammals, calculating forces, stresses and strains in muscle fibres, bones and tendons. His speciality became the application of mathematical models to animal locomotion, including repurposing the Froude number, devised by the Victorian engineer William Froude (FRS 1870) for use with ships, to estimate the speed of dinosaurs based on the spacing of their fossil footprints. Subsequent work included modelling the optimization of mammal performance and the minimization of energy costs. In 1992, following an announcement that London Zoo would have to close as a result of shortage of funds, Neill was appointed secretary of the Zoological Society of London. During the period of his secretaryship, the Society's finances recovered, with both its zoos (London and Whipsnade) breaking even in 1993 and the Society returning a surplus in each subsequent year. Neill was awarded the CBE in 2000. The National Portrait Gallery holds his portrait by John Arnison.

A Bibliography

1972 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
J. M. C. Toynbee
Keyword(s):  
75Th Birthday ◽  
Emeritus Professor ◽  
Classical Archaeology ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
British School ◽  
Imperial Court ◽  
Distinguished Scholar ◽  
The University

Jocelyn Mary Catherine Toynbee reached her 75th birthday on 3 March 1972. Scholar of Newnham College, Cambridge, from 1916–20; Classical Tutor at St. Hugh's College, Oxford, from 1921–24; Classical Lecturer at Reading University from 1924–27; Fellow, Lecturer and Director of Studies in Classics at Newnham from 1927–51; Classical Lecturer in the University of Cambridge from 1931–51; Lawrence Professor of Classical Archaeology at Cambridge from 1951–62; Emeritus Professor and Honorary Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge; she has throughout her career been very closely connected with the British School at Rome, as a student, as a member of the Faculty of Archaeology, History and Letters, and from 1954–59 as Chairman of the Faculty. The bibliography that follows comes not only as a tribute to a distinguished scholar but also as a token of the affection and admiration in which she is held by her many friends, among them her colleagues and former pupils.There can be few living students of the history and monuments of classical Rome who have not at some time been influenced directly or indirectly by her work. Starting from the central themes and monuments, she has steadily enlarged her horizons to include the farthest frontiers of the Empire, responding with as much sympathy and acumen to the fumbling products of some Romano-British apprentice as to the masterpieces of the artists at the imperial court.

Berdyaev and Origen: A Comparison

1947 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-21
Author(s):  
Matthew Spinka
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Historical Trend ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
Clement Of Alexandria ◽  
To Come ◽  
Christian Platonism ◽  
The University ◽  
Logos Theology

Canon Raven of the University of Cambridge, in his recently published book, expressed a significant, if somewhat startling, judgment regarding the historical trend of Western theology:The first adequate theology, still perhaps the noblest ever formulated, [was] the Logos theology of the Greek Apologists, which had its fullest expression in the Christian Platonism of Clement of Alexandria and Origen. … It is one of the tragedies of history that the work of this brilliant succession of Christian thinkers was allowed not merely to come to an end, but to fall into neglect, oblivion and condemnation. If we are to handle effectively the task of elucidating a Christian theology for the twentieth century, we must, I think, ignore all the elaborate structures of later orthodoxy, Catholic and Protestant, which for today are literally irrelevant, and return to the point at which Origen was removed.

The Perils of Proximity: Rivalries and conflicts in the making of a neighbourhood in Bombay City in the twentieth century

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 351-393
Author(s):  
RAJNARAYAN CHANDAVARKAR
Keyword(s):  
Good Reason ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
Enormous Amount ◽  
Indian City ◽  
Bombay City ◽  
To Come ◽  
The University ◽  
Selection Of

Rajnarayan Chandavarkar—Fellow of Trinity College and Reader in History at the University of Cambridge—passed away on 23 April 2006. In addition to a rich legacy of books and articles that were published in his lifetime, he left behind an enormous amount of manuscript material, much of which was ready for publication. A selection of this material was published in his posthumous History, Culture and the Indian City (Cambridge University Press, 2009), but new manuscripts continue to come to light. His wife, Jennifer Davis, recently found this essay among his effects. There is good reason to believe that Raj felt it was ready for publication. Therefore, we publish this essay almost exactly as it appears in his typescript, only correcting typos and minor errors, and adding a map. The editors would like to thank David Washbrook and Jennifer Davis for proofing this article, Uttara Shahani and Binney Hare for researching and adapting the map, and Francoise Davis for the photograph of Raj.

A salon science?

Antiquity ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 60 (230) ◽  
pp. 193-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Snodgrass
Keyword(s):  
Review Article ◽  
Classical Archaeology ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
The University

We asked Professor Anthony Snodgrass, Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology in the University of Cambridge, and adviser on such matters for this journal, to review for us seven books* in his field which have been published in the last few months. He has chosen as the title for his review article, ‘A salon science?’, which he now explains.

Bediako of Africa: A Late 20th Century Outstanding Theologian and Teacher

2009 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu
Keyword(s):  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Religion And Theology ◽  
Doctorate Degree ◽  
African Christianity ◽  
Educational Institute ◽  
History Of ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University

AbstractKwame Bediako of the Akrofi-Christaller Memorial Institute of Theology, Mission and Culture based in Akropong-Akwapim in Ghana, was a stalwart in the field of African Christianity and Theology. He was called home to glory in June 2008 at the age of 63 years. Converted from atheism whilst studying for a doctorate degree in French and African literature at the University of Bordeaux in France, Bediako embraced a conservative evangelical faith. He went on to do a second PhD in Theology under the tutelage of Andrew F. Walls in Aberdeen. Bediako returned to Ghana in 1984 to found the then Akrofi-Christaller Memorial Center for Mission Research and Applied Theology. Through that initiative, now a fully accredited tertiary theological educational institute, Bediako pioneered a new way of doing theology through his emphasis on mother-tongue hermeneutics, oral or grassroots theology, and the study of primal religions as the sub-structure of Christian expression in the majority Two Thirds World. These ideas are outlined in his major publications, Theology and Identity, Christianity in Africa, Jesus of Africa, and the many forceful and insightful articles scattered in local and international journals in religion and theology. For many years to come, although living in glory, Bediako's evangelical intellectual heritage will continue as a leading reference point for all those seeking to understand Africa's place in the history of world Christianity.

Ocean Science

1974 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Lighthill
Keyword(s):  
Applied Mathematics ◽  
Hundredth Anniversary ◽  
Ocean Science ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University

In this paper the Lucasian Professor of Applied Mathematics in the University of Cambridge studies the role of ocean science in the service of mankind, and examines the interaction between the many disciplines which make up that science. The paper, which was written in May 1972 (and a version of which was published in the Bulletin of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications for February 1973), was presented at a conference held in Greenwich on 12–14 September 1973 to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the Royal Naval College. (Note: the National Institute of Oceanography referred to in the text is now known as the Institute of Oceanographic Sciences.)

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