scholarly journals Jeremy Randall Knowles CBE. 28 April 1935 — 3 April 2008

2010 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
pp. 171-187
Author(s):  
David E. Hansen ◽  
Robert J. P. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Harvard University ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The University ◽  
Music And The Arts

Jeremy Randall Knowles was remarkable both as a celebrated organic biochemist and as a wise administrator, and throughout his career he retained a lasting love of music and the arts. He was for several years a tutorial Fellow of Wadham College and a lecturer in chemistry at the University of Oxford, 1962–74. In 1974 he left Oxford permanently for Harvard University to become Professor of Chemistry; in 1979 he was named the Amory Houghton Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry. To the surprise of many, he later gave up this chair to become the Dean of Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, a post he held with great distinction from 1991 to 2002. He returned to Harvard's University Hall again as Interim Dean from 2006 to 2007.

scholarly journals Aboagora 2013: The Human Machine

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Ruth Illman
Keyword(s):  
Joint Venture ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Music Festival ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

The editorial introduces the articles of the issue, all pertaining to the arts and sciences event, Aboagora, which gathered artists, academics and a wide range of interested listeners together to discuss the relationship between technology and the human being in Turku/Åbo in August, 2013. Aboagora is arranged as a joint venture between Turku Music Festival and scholars from the University of Turku, Åbo Akademi University and the Donner Institute.

scholarly journals A Conversation with Theda Skocpol

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Theda Skocpol ◽  
Eric Schickler
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
American Political Science Association ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
Social Science History ◽  
The Social ◽  
The University ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
American Political Science

An interview with Theda Skocpol took place at Harvard University in December 2017. Professor Skocpol is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University. Skocpol is the author of numerous books and articles well known in political science and beyond, including States and Social Revolutions, Protecting Soldiers and Mothers, Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life, and The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism (the latter coauthored with Vanessa Williamson). Skocpol has served as President of the American Political Science Association and the Social Science History Association. Among her honors, she is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the National Academy of Sciences, and she was awarded the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science. She was interviewed by Eric Schickler, the Jeffrey & Ashley McDermott Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. The following is an edited transcript; a video of the entire interview can be viewed at https://www.annualreviews.org/r/theda-skocpol .

Literary Contributions of Catholics in Nineteenth-Century Mexico: Part Two: The Díaz Regime (1867–1910)

1945 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-50
Author(s):  
Francis Borgia Steck
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
Municipal Government ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Second Empire ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Bar Examination ◽  
The University ◽  
The City ◽  
Made In

Another gifted writer whose name has almost passed into oblivion is Tirso Rafael Córdoba. Like Rafael Gómez, he from Michoacán, a circumstance that seems to explain why during the period we are considering these two men stood on such intimate terms of friendship and in their literary career had so many things in common. His biographer tells us that in 1853, at the early age of fifteen, Córdoba, then a student in the Seminario de Morelia, was admitted to membership in the Liceo Iturbide, a distinction conferred upon him in view of the exceptional progress he had made in the arts and sciences. Only for the disturbed times in which his youth and early manhood fell, Córdoba would have entered the priesthood, this being his intention when he studied philosophy in the Seminario Conciliar Palafoxiano in the city of Puebla. From this celebrated school he graduated with high honors and then proceeded to Mexico City where he studied canon and civil law in the Colegio de San Ildefonso and passed the bar examination in the University of Mexico. But again he became a victim of circumstances, unable to engage freely and fully in the legal and political circles for which he was so richly qualified. After the fall of the Second Empire, at which time he was Secretary General of the municipal government of Puebla, he retired from public life and thereafter took a prominent part, chiefly in Mexico City, in social and literary activities. He was one of the founders of the organization known as La Sociedad Católica and collaborated in the founding and editing of periodicals, popular as well as literary, such as La Voz de México, El Obrero Católico, El Hijo del Obrero, La Lira Poblana, La Aurora, and La Oliva.

Universities and Academic Systems in Modern Societies

1962 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Ben-David ◽  
Awraham Zloczower
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
Specialized Schools ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Practical Politics ◽  
The University

Universities engage in teaching and research. They prepare students to become men of action in practical politics, the civil service, the practice of law, medicine, surgery etc. Others studying at universities want to become scholars and scientists whose style of work is far removed from the on-the-spot decisionmaking which is so important among the former category. The professions and disciplines taught and developed at universities require a great variety of manpower and organization of entirely different kinds. Universities nevertheless insist on comprising all of them, in the name of an idea stemming from a time when one person was really able to master all the arts and sciences. They, furthermore, attempt to perform all these complex tasks within the framework of corporate self-government reminiscent of medieval guilds. Indeed there have been serious doubts about the efficiency of the university since the 18th century. Reformers of the “Enlightenment” advocated the abolition of the universities as useless remnants of past tradition and establish in their stead specialized schools for the training of professional people and academies for the advancement of science and learning. This program was actually put into effect by the Revolution and the subsequent reorganization of higher education by Napoleon in France. The present day organization of higher education in the Soviet Union still reflects the belief in the efficiency of specialized professional schools as well as specialized academic research institutions.

scholarly journals Sir Rex Edward Richards. 28 October 1922—15 July 2019

2021 ◽  
Vol 70 ◽  
pp. 387-407
Author(s):  
David G. Gadian
Keyword(s):  
Biological Sciences ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
Research Career ◽  
Non Invasive ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
Invasive Method ◽  
Novel Applications ◽  
The University

Rex Richards was renowned for his research in the field of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). Very early on, in the late 1940s, when NMR was in the domain of physicists, he foresaw that the technique might play an important role in chemistry. He embarked on a highly successful research career in which he combined the design and development of new NMR spectrometers with novel applications, initially in chemistry and subsequently in the biological sciences. One major outcome was the establishment of the Oxford Enzyme Group's NMR research programme. Another was the development of 31 P NMR spectroscopy as a non-invasive method of probing the biochemistry of intact biological tissue. Rex was an outstanding teacher and mentor. He also had highly impressive administrative skills, as recognized through successive appointments at the University of Oxford as head of the Physical Chemistry Department, then warden of Merton College and finally vice-chancellor. He was subsequently appointed director of the Leverhulme Trust and became widely respected in the arts world, as reflected by his remarkable array of committee memberships at the National and Tate Galleries.

scholarly journals Theatre in Britain during the Second World War

2010 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anselm Heinrich
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Entertainment Education ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Theatre Studies ◽  
The University ◽  
Music And The Arts ◽  
Second World

In this article Anselm Heinrich argues for a renewed interest in and critical investigation of theatre in Britain during the Second World War, a period neglected by researchers despite the radical changes in the cultural landscape instigated during the war. Concentrating on CEMA (the Council for Encouragement of Music and the Arts) and the introduction of subsidies, the author discusses and evaluates the importance and effects of state intervention in the arts, with a particular focus on the demands put on theatre and its role in society in relation to propaganda, nation-building, and education. Anselm Heinrich is Lecturer in Theatre Studies at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of Entertainment, Education, Propaganda: Regional Theatres in Germany and Britain between 1918 and 1945 (2007), and with Kate Newey and Jeffrey Richards has co-edited a collection of essays on Ruskin, the Theatre, and Victorian Visual Culture (2009). Other research interests include émigrés from Nazi-occupied Europe, contemporary German theatre and drama, and national theatres.

Literary Contributions of Catholics in Nineteenth-Century Mexico: Part Two: The Díaz Regime (1867–1910)

1945 ◽  
Vol 2 (01) ◽  
pp. 30-50
Author(s):  
Francis Borgia Steck
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
Municipal Government ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Second Empire ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Bar Examination ◽  
The University ◽  
The City ◽  
Made In

Another gifted writer whose name has almost passed into oblivion is Tirso Rafael Córdoba. Like Rafael Gómez, he from Michoacán, a circumstance that seems to explain why during the period we are considering these two men stood on such intimate terms of friendship and in their literary career had so many things in common. His biographer tells us that in 1853, at the early age of fifteen, Córdoba, then a student in the Seminario de Morelia, was admitted to membership in the Liceo Iturbide, a distinction conferred upon him in view of the exceptional progress he had made in the arts and sciences. Only for the disturbed times in which his youth and early manhood fell, Córdoba would have entered the priesthood, this being his intention when he studied philosophy in the Seminario Conciliar Palafoxiano in the city of Puebla. From this celebrated school he graduated with high honors and then proceeded to Mexico City where he studied canon and civil law in the Colegio de San Ildefonso and passed the bar examination in the University of Mexico. But again he became a victim of circumstances, unable to engage freely and fully in the legal and political circles for which he was so richly qualified. After the fall of the Second Empire, at which time he was Secretary General of the municipal government of Puebla, he retired from public life and thereafter took a prominent part, chiefly in Mexico City, in social and literary activities. He was one of the founders of the organization known as La Sociedad Católica and collaborated in the founding and editing of periodicals, popular as well as literary, such as La Voz de México, El Obrero Católico, El Hijo del Obrero, La Lira Poblana, La Aurora, and La Oliva.

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