scholarly journals Birbal Sahni, 1891-1949

1950 ◽  
Vol 7 (19) ◽  
pp. 264-277 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Reform ◽  
Early Education ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Government College ◽  
Northern India ◽  
Banking Business ◽  
High Esteem ◽  
The Government ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time

Professor Birbal Shni, the eminent Indian palaeobotanist, was born on 14 November 1891 at Bhera, a small town in the Western Punjab. He was the second son of Lala Ruchi Ram Sahni, who was later Professor of Chemistry at the Government College, Lahore. His grandfather owned a flourishing banking business at Dera Ismail Khan and practised chemical experiments as a hobby. Sahni’s early days were spent in a family and a neighbourhood which were unusually enlightened, and where education was held in high esteem. Plis father, who has been described as a profound scholar and a pioneer in social reform, was responsible for his early education. He encouraged the boy to collect plants, rocks and fossils, and during his vacations took him on excursions to the Himalayas and other places. Even before coming to England for the first time, he had travelled widely in Northern India and had journeyed as far as the borders of Tibet. After attending the Central Model School in Lahore, he proceeded to the Government College, where he had the advantage of learning botany from Professor S. R. Kashyap, and he obtained the degree of B.Sc. of the University of the Punjab in 1911. Immediately after taking his degree he travelled to England and entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he worked until 1919. He obtained a First Class in Part I of the Natural Sciences Tripos in 1913 and was subsequently elected to a Foundation Scholarship in his college, and afterwards to a Research Studentship. He was placed in the Second Class in Part II of the same Tripos in 1915, a year in which Professor G. E. Briggs was the only botanist to obtain a First. About this time he took the Degree of B.Sc. of the University of London

An Indian Official’s Trials and Tribulations

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruchi Ram Sahni
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Trauma ◽  
Government College ◽  
Chemistry Department ◽  
Senior Professor ◽  
Short Period ◽  
The Government ◽  
The University

In this chapter Ruchi Ram Sahni recounts what he calls the most depressing and unpleasant incident of his life. It involved his supersession for the position of Professor-in-Charge of the Chemistry Department at the Government College, Lahore, by a much younger Englishman, fresh from university. The post in question was vacated by an English colleague, a Senior Professor, with whom the author had a difficult relationship involving a dispute about who was to be selected for the post of Examiner in the university examinations. This colleague went on to write a secret report against Sahni, resulting in his supersession despite his vast seniority. Sahni relates the psychological trauma resulting from this experience, and its contribution to strengthen his resolve to leave Lahore for a short period to do research in Europe.

I Join the Punjab Education Department

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruchi Ram Sahni
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Government College ◽  
Science Class ◽  
Education Department ◽  
The Government ◽  
The University ◽  
University Science

In this chapter Ruchi Ram Sahni recounts his early years as Assistant Professor of Science at the Government College, Lahore. In addition to teaching and running experiments, Sahni delivered three lectures a week in Urdu at the University science class at the Oriental College as a Kapurthala Alexandra scholar. He also found the time to attend carpentry classes for six months at the Mayo School of Art, where he made the acquaintance of Lockwood Kipling and learned carpentry from the famous master architect, Bhai Ram Singh. The chapter also describes an unfortunate episode involving the leaking of examination papers by an English colleague in which Sahni was unfairly implicated, and discusses some British policies which discriminated against Indians in the field of higher education.

A Memoir of Pre-Partition Punjab

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Reform ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Science Educator ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Government College ◽  
Social Reformer ◽  
The Social ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The Government ◽  
Business Family

A Memoir of Pre-Partition Punjab is the autobiography of Ruchi Ram Sahni (1863–1948), a social reformer, science educator, and, in later life, an active participant in political affairs. It provides a rich account of the social, political, and intellectual ferment in the Punjab in the mid to late nineteenth century, seen through the eyes of a thoughtful observer who grew up in a business family in Dera Ismail Khan (now in Waziristan, Pakistan), and went on to Lahore, where he settled as a Professor of Chemistry at the Government College, Lahore. Sahni’s energetic life is evident from the range of activities he describes, from social reform in the Brahmo Samaj through science education in the Punjab, to participation in the background of the Congress Enquiry Committee into the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.

A Tracer Study of Eastern Visayas State University-Ormoc Campus Graduates

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ma. Erenita V. Bahian ◽  
Edward B. Bertulfo ◽  
Danilo B. Pulma ◽  
Robert G. Navarro
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Data ◽  
Tracer Study ◽  
State University ◽  
Board Examination ◽  
The Government ◽  
The University ◽  
Descriptive Survey ◽  
First Job ◽  
First Time ◽  
Study Questionnaire

Tracing graduates offers empirical data about the graduates' employment and competencies. The study aimed to assess relevance of the program's curriculum and seeks to provide empirical data on the employment and competencies of the graduates of Eastern Visayas State University- Ormoc City Campus in 2005-2017 since this is the first time to conduct a tracer study. Using a descriptive survey, 241 graduates responded to a CHED standardized tracer study questionnaire. Frequency counts, percentage, mean, and ranking were used. Results revealed that the most of the graduates who responded were female, single professionals and working in the government with regular or permanent status. Most of the respondents are BS Mechanical and Civil Engineering and mostly Board Examination passers. Some of the respondents landed on their first job within the span of six months with gross monthly salary is within Php 5,000 to Php 15,000. Most of the respondents have stayed with their job for salaries and benefits and have claimed that their job is relevant to the program they took up in the university and they find their learned communication skills to be very useful at work. Graduates should be prepared with the skills and knowledge required to contribute to the success of the licensure examination leading to stable and secure employment. Keywords: tracer study; college students; employment; competencies

scholarly journals Introducing Iqbal the Economist

2001 ◽  
Vol 40 (4II) ◽  
pp. 1167-1176
Author(s):  
Pervez Tahir
Keyword(s):  
Social Issues ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
Master's Level ◽  
Government College ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Government ◽  
First Time ◽  
Philosophical Writings

The Iqbal Memorial Lecture was instituted in 1994 when the Pakistan Society of Development Economists (PSDE) celebrated the completion of a decade of steady progress. A brief announcement stated: “The Iqbal Memorial Lecture attributed to the national poet [Emphasis added], Allama Muhammad Iqbal has been included in the programme for the first time. Professor Ian M. D. Little is delivering that lecture” [Secretary’s Report (1994), p. 1472]. Iqbal, the poet and philosopher par excellence, has made incisive remarks or comments on economic and social issues in his poetry, philosophical writings, and in the course of his discourses as well as some famous letters, particularly those written to the Quaid-i-Azam, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan. But these do not make Iqbal an economist. The Secretary of the PSDE was, therefore, careful in observing that the lecture commemorates our “national poet”. However, it will be of great interest to this largest national congregation of economists and other scholars concerned with development to know that the very first published book of Iqbal related neither to poetry nor philosophy, but economics. It was written in Urdu. He also taught the subject at undergraduate and Master’s level, even though he had not studied it as a student. At the Government College, Lahore, Iqbal studied English, Philosophy and Arabic for his B.A. and then completed the M.A. in Philosophy.

Some aspects of the idea of unity V. Solovyov and the present

2000 ◽  
pp. 20-25
Author(s):  
O. O. Romanovsky
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
National Policy ◽  
The State ◽  
Place Of Residence ◽  
The Government ◽  
The University ◽  
Temporary Closure

In the second half of the nineteenth century, the nature of the national policy of Russia is significantly changing. After the events of 1863 in Poland (the Second Polish uprising), the government of Alexander II gradually abandoned the dominant idea of ​​anathematizing, whose essence is expressed in the domination of the principle of serving the state, the greatness of the empire. The tsar-reformer deliberately changes the policy of etatamism into the policy of state ethnocentrism. The manifestation of such a change is a ban on teaching in Polish (1869) and the temporary closure of the University of Warsaw. At the end of the 60s, the state's policy towards a five million Russian Jewry was radically revised. The process of abolition of restrictions on travel, education, place of residence initiated by Nicholas I, was provided reverse.

Adam Zalužanský’s “De sexu plantarum” (1592): an early pioneering chapter on plant sexuality

2013 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 244-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holger Funk
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
English Translation ◽  
History Of Botany ◽  
Main Work ◽  
Botanical History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time

In the history of botany, Adam Zalužanský (d. 1613), a Bohemian physician, apothecary, botanist and professor at the University of Prague, is a little-known personality. Linnaeus's first biographers, for example, only knew Zalužanský from hearsay and suspected he was a native of Poland. This ignorance still pervades botanical history. Zalužanský is mentioned only peripherally or not at all. As late as the nineteenth century, a researcher would be unaware that Zalužanský’s main work Methodi herbariae libri tres actually existed in two editions from two different publishers (1592, Prague; 1604, Frankfurt). This paper introduces the life and work of Zalužanský. Special attention is paid to the chapter “De sexu plantarum” of Zalužanský’s Methodus, in which, more than one hundred years before the well-known De sexu plantarum epistola of R. J. Camerarius, the sexuality of plants is suggested. Additionally, for the first time, an English translation of Zalužanský’s chapter on plant sexuality is provided.

More Christian Apocrypha

2012 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 16-21
Author(s):  
Tony Burke
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
North American ◽  
English Language ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time ◽  
Medieval Christianity

Scholars interested in the Christian Apocrypha (CA) typically appeal to CA collections when in need of primary sources. But many of these collections limit themselves to material believed to have been written within the first to fourth centuries CE. As a result a large amount of non-canonical Christian texts important for the study of ancient and medieval Christianity have been neglected. The More Christian Apocrypha Project will address this neglect by providing a collection of new editions (some for the first time) of these texts for English readers. The project is inspired by the More Old Testament Pseudepigrapha Project headed by Richard Bauckham and Jim Davila from the University of Edinburgh. Like the MOTP, the MCAP is envisioned as a supplement to an earlier collection of texts—in this case J. K. Elliott’s The Apocryphal New Testament (Oxford 1991), the most recent English-language CA collection (but now almost two decades old). The texts to be included are either absent in Elliott or require significant revision. Many of the texts have scarcely been examined in over a century and are in dire need of new examination. One of the goals of the project is to spotlight the abilities and achievements of English (i.e., British and North American) scholars of the CA, so that English readers have access to material that has achieved some exposure in French, German, and Italian collections.

MAKING IT GREEN: THE FOOD PACKAGING PERCEPTIONS AND PRACTICES OF YOUNG CONSUMERS

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Norsyamira Shahrin ◽  
Rabiatul Adawiyah Abd Rahman ◽  
Noorliza Zainol ◽  
Noor Saliza Salmi ◽  
Mohd Faisal Abdul Wahab
Keyword(s):  
Standard Deviation ◽  
Food Packaging ◽  
Food Handler ◽  
Polystyrene Foam ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
Young Consumers ◽  
Plastic Bag ◽  
The Government ◽  
The University

Food handler still fails to play their part even when the government imposes “No Plastic Bag” campaign and a ban on polystyrene foam to pack foods. This research focuses on eco-friendly food packaging based on the perception and practice of young consumers, especially the undergraduates of Mara University of Technology Penang Campus (UiTMPP). Questionnaire was constructed and distributed to 315 respondents.  The collected data were analyzed with simple descriptive statistic of frequency, mean and standard deviation. Most of the respondents are aware on eco-friendlyfood packaging. They agreed that the university should propose some alternative to control and reduce non-biodegradable foods packaging. 

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