Ivan Matveevich Vinogradov, 14 September 1891 - 20 March 1983

1985 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 611-631
Keyword(s):  
Probability Theory ◽  
Number Theory ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
Modern School ◽  
Imperial Capital ◽  
Mathematical Section ◽  
The University ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Church

Ivan Matveevich Vinogradov was born on 14 September (New Style) 1891. His father Matveǐ Avraam’evich was the priest of the village church ( pogost ) of Milolyub in the Velikie Luki district of Pskov province in western Russia. His mother was a teacher. From an early age he showed an aptitude for drawing and, instead of an ecclesiastical school (as would have been normal for a son of the clergy), his parents sent him in 1903 to the modern school ( real´noe uchilishche : i.e. one with a scientific as opposed to a classical orientation) in Velikie Luki, whither his father had moved with his family on his translation to the Church of the Holy Shroud ( Pokrovskaya Tserkov ’) there. In 1910 on completing school, Vinogradov entered the mathematical section of the Physico-mathematical Faculty of the University at the Imperial capital, St Petersburg. Among the staff were A. A. Markov, whose lectures on probability he is said to have known by heart, and Ya. V. Uspenskiǐ ( = J. V. Uspensky, later of Stanford University, U.S.A.), both with interests in number theory and probability theory. There had been a long tradition in these subjects (Chebyshëv in both; Korkin, Zolotarëv and Voronoǐ in number theory). Vinogradov was attracted to number theory and showed such ability that on completing the course in 1914 he was retained at the University for training as an academic. He successfully completed the extensive Master’s examination and in 1915, on the initiative of V. A. Steklov, was awarded a bursary.

Harry Medforth Dawson, 1876 - 1939

1940 ◽  
Vol 3 (8) ◽  
pp. 139-154 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Chemical Research ◽  
Modern School ◽  
The University ◽  
College Educated

Harry Medforth Dawson was born in Bramley, Leeds, in 1876, and throughout his career was associated closely with his home city. Indeed with the exception of three years of Continental study he spent the whole of his working life in the University of Leeds, known in its early days as the Yorkshire College. Educated at the Leeds Modern School, he gained a Baines Scholarship at the Yorkshire College and began life as a student in 1891 at the early age of fifteen. Here he was attracted to the study of chemistry by the teaching of Arthur Smithells, who a few years previously had succeeded Sir Edward Thorpe in the Chair of Chemistry. To the influence and guidance of Smithells, not only in his student days, but later when he was a member of the chemistry staff, Dawson always acknowledged that he owed a great deal. It was probably due to his collaboration with Smithells in one of his well-known investigations on flame that turned Dawson’s interests towards chemistry and chemical research as his career; for in his last year as a student he helped in a research on the conductivity and luminosity of flames containing salt vapours. This work was completed and published a few years later in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in the names of A. Smithells, H. M. Dawson and H. A. Wilson. After graduating B.Sc. London in 1896, Dawson gained an 1851 Exhibition, the highest distinction then open to a student, and he proceeded to Germany where he studied for three years, mainly with van’t Hoff in Berlin but also at Giessen with Elbs, at Leipzig, and with Abegg at Breslau.

Edward Provan Cathcart, 1877 - 1954

1954 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-53
Keyword(s):  
Early Age ◽  
Iron And Steel ◽  
International Reputation ◽  
The University ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Town

Edward Provan Cathcart died at his home in Glasgow on 18 February 1954, seven years after his retiral from the Regius Chair of Physiology in the University of Glasgow. His death has removed a well-known personality in academic circles in Scotland, a scientist of international reputation devoted in the broadest sense of the term to the study of his fellow men, and a man whose hum an sympathies and understanding had an influence on his associates which can hardly be over-estimated. E. P. Cathcart was born on 18 July 1877 in the town of Ayr. His forbears were practical people interested in agriculture and commerce, and in iron and steel. His father, Edward Moore Cathcart, was a merchant in the town of Ayr; his mother was the daughter of a rivet and bolt manufacturer whose home was at Invereck, near the village of Kilmun on the Firth of Clyde. His father died at the early age of 37, when Cathcart was only nine, and he with a younger brother and sister were brought up by the widowed mother. She, in addition to being a very good amateur painter who had gained several awards at the Glasgow School of Art, was in many ways a woman of intellectual attainment and personality.

The Early Years of the Jewish Presence at the University of Illinois

1992 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-245
Author(s):  
Winton U. Solberg
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Characteristic Form ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
American Higher Education ◽  
Jewish Students ◽  
The University ◽  
The Church

For over two centuries, the College was the characteristic form of higher education in the United States, and the College was closely allied to the church in a predominantly Protestant land. The university became the characteristic form of American higher education starting in the late nineteenth Century, and universities long continued to reflect the nation's Protestant culture. By about 1900, however, Catholics and Jews began to enter universities in increasing numbers. What was the experience of Jewish students in these institutions, and how did authorities respond to their appearance? These questions will be addressed in this article by focusing on the Jewish presence at the University of Illinois in the early twentieth Century. Religion, like a red thread, is interwoven throughout the entire fabric of this story.

Development of a Student's Critical Thinking during the Course of General Sociology

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Е.Е. Луцькая
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
School Education ◽  
Development Trends ◽  
Modern Education ◽  
Mass Society ◽  
Modern School ◽  
Key Competencies ◽  
The University

критическое мышление считается одной ключевых компетенций современного образования, и современные студенты безусловно нуждаются в его развитии, поскольку особенности современного школьного образования и тенденции развития массового общества не дают ему развиться адекватно потребностям быстро изменяющейся социальной реальности. В статье на примере курса общей социологии показан процесс развития критического мышления в университете. Для формирования критического мышления привлекаются работы Ч.Р. Миллса, З. Баумана, Х. Ортеги-и-Гассета и др. critical thinking is considered one of the key competencies of modern education, and modern students certainly need to develop it, since the features of modern school education and the development trends of mass society do not allow it to develop adequately to the needs of rapidly changing social reality. This article uses the example of a General sociology course to show the process of developing critical thinking at the University. The works of Ch.R. Mills, Z. Bauman, J. Ortega y Gasset, and others are used to form critical thinking.

Historic Churches of New Mexico Today

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Graziano
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
San Jose ◽  
Pueblo Indians ◽  
New Mexican ◽  
Cultural Legacy ◽  
Attachment To Place ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Church ◽  
Previous Scholarship

Historic Churches of New Mexico Today is an interpretive ethnography based on fieldwork among hispanic villagers, Pueblo Indians, and Mescalero Apaches. The fieldwork was reinforced by extensive research in archives and in previous scholarship. The book presents scholarly interpretations in prose that is accessible, often narrative, at times lyrical, and crafted to convey the experience of researching in New Mexican villages. Descriptive guide information and directions to remote historic churches are provided. Themes treated in the book include the interactions of past and present, the decline of traditions, a sense of place and attachment to place, the church as a cultural legacy, the church in relation to native traditions, resistance to Catholicism, tensions between priests and congregations, maintenance and restoration of historic buildings, and, in general, how the church as a place and devotion as a practice are important (or not) to the identities and everyday lives of individuals and communities. Among many others, the historic churches discussed in the study include the Santuario de Chimayó, San José de Gracia in Las Trampas, San Francisco de Asís in Ranchos de Taos, the village churches of Mora County, St. Joseph Apache Mission in Mescalero, and the mission churches at Laguna, Acoma, and Picurís Pueblos.

The Church on the World's Turf

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul A. Bramadat
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Sexual Ethics ◽  
Institutional Settings ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Conservative Protestant ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Christian Fellowship ◽  
The University ◽  
The Church

Is it possible for conservative Protestant groups to survive in secular institutional settings? Here, Bramadat offers an ethnographic study of the Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship (IVCF) at McMaster University, a group that espouses fundamentalist interpretations of the Bible, women's roles, the age of the earth, alcohol consumption, and sexual ethics. In examining this group, Bramadat demonstrates how this tiny minority thrives within the overwhelmingly secular context of the University.

Reform and Revisionism in the Study of Henrician England - Edward Stafford, Third Duke of Buckingham. By Barbara J. Harris. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1986. Pp. viii + 334. $37.50. - The Power of the Tudor Nobility. By G. W. Bernard. Totowa, N.J.: Barnes & Noble Books, 1985. Pp. 228. - Rome ou l'Angleterre? Les reactions politiques des Catholiques Anglais au moment du schisme. By Jean-Pierre Moreau. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1984. Pp. 377. - Humanism in the Age of Henry VIII. By Maria Dowling. London: Croom Helm, 1986. Pp. 283. $43.00. - Reassessing the Henrician Age: Humanism, Politics, and Reform, 1500–1550. Edited by Alistair Fox and John Guy. Oxford: Basil Black well, 1986. Pp. vi + 242. - The History of the University of Oxford, vol. 3: The Collegiate University. Edited by James McConica. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986. $125.00. - Revolution Reassessed: Revisions in the History of Tudor Government and Administration. Edited by Christopher Coleman and David Starkey. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986. Pp. viii + 219. - Treason in Tudor England: Politics and Paranoia. By Lacey Baldwin Smith. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1986. Pp. 342. $25.00. - Venetian Humanism in an Age of Patrician Dominance. By Margaret King. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1986. Pp. xxi + 524.

1988 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 190-197
Author(s):  
Thomas F. Mayer
Keyword(s):  
Henry Viii ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
Tudor England ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of The University ◽  
The University ◽  
Oxford University Press

Art. I.—Notices of the Life of Henry Thomas Colebrooke, Esq., by his Son

1838 ◽  
Vol 5 (9) ◽  
pp. 1-60
Keyword(s):  
East India Company ◽  
Early Age ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Church ◽  
Brothers And Sisters

Henry Thomas Colebrooke, the subject of this memoir, was born in London, on the 15th. June, 1765, and was the youngest of seven children. His father, Sir George Colebrooke, Baronet, was for many years chairman of the East India Company.As a boy, he was of a quiet retired disposition, seldom mixing in any of the usual amusements of childhood, and was distinguished at an early age among his brothers and sisters for his extreme fondness for reading. In allusion to this, he used to say to them, that by his habits and tastes he was best fitted for the profession of a clergyman, and expressed a strong desire to his father that he might be placed in the church.

The 1805 Forékariah Conference: A Case of Political Intrigue, Economic Advantage, Network Building

1998 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 219-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce L. Mouser
Keyword(s):  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Economic Advantage ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
University Library ◽  
Network Building ◽  
The University ◽  
The Village

Palavers, great meetings, grand conferences, “tribal” meetings— these are terms used to describe meetings among peoples in and near Sierra Leone, meetings in which political, diplomatic, and economic questions are discussed and sometimes resolved at the village, intervillage, and occasionally, national levels. These conferences vary in size and importance, depending on dimensions of conflicts or questions to be resolved. This paper focuses on one such conference that convened at Forékariah, the capital of Moria, in 1805 and on circumstances leading to it. It is based largely upon a lengthy first-hand report deposited at the University Library, University of Illinois at Chicago. This paper is presented in two parts: a description of the conference and its placement in Sierra Leone and Morian histories, and the text of the report produced by Sierra Leone observers.From the earliest records of British officials at Sierra Leone, there are citations to specific “indigenous” meetings and allusions to others that supposedly occurred (indeed they would have had to occur for certain events to follow). One of the earliest large conferences described in detail in these records is one that convened at Forékariah from 24 March to 6 April 1805. The extant contemporary written record of this conference was produced by Alexander Smith, the Sierra Leone Company's and Governor William Day's principal representative at the conference. Other observers from Freetown included William Francis, Andrew Moore, Captain Smith, and Charles Shaw. Alexander Smith did not identify a specific interpreter nor describe what method he used to record the detailed arguments presented by participants. Certainly the filter of language and inter pretation must have influenced the record's content. If one places the conference within the framework of Company and Sierra Leone history, however, and accepts the premise that the Freetown observers were relatively unbiased since they were not principal parties to the palavers resolved, the report can be seen as one of a very few in which Sierra Leone's officials presented themselves in such uninvolved fashion.

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