Carl Friedrich Gauss. Inaugural Lecture on Astronomy and Papers on the Foundations of Mathematics

1938 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 314
Author(s):  
Martin A. Nordgaard ◽  
G. Waldo Dunnington
Keyword(s):  
Foundations Of Mathematics ◽  
Inaugural Lecture

Augustus de morgan’s inaugural lecture of 1828

2006 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 16-18
Author(s):  
Ronald Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Inaugural Lecture

Islamic Society in Persia: An Inaugural Lecture delivered on 9 March 1954

1955 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 392-392
Author(s):  
H. A. R. Gibb
Keyword(s):  
Inaugural Lecture ◽  
Islamic Society

Early European Influences on Tswana Law

1987 ◽  
Vol 31 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 151-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Schapera
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Government Control ◽  
Intensive Study ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Inaugural Lecture ◽  
Western Law ◽  
Local Courts ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Impact

In the closing paragraph of his inaugural lecture Law and Language, Professor Allott referred to what he termed “a daunting obstacle” to the intensive study of African legal systems.That obstacle is the rapid disappearance, before our very eyes, of the traditional systems that we have proposed to study. A generation ago there would not have been that difficulty; but today the traditional tribunals have vanished in many African countries where their place has been taken by statutory local courts. Even where the traditional courts appear to have survived, at least in name, they are usually affected by the impact of western law and institutions and of central government control.Those words were written in 1965. How true and necessary they were is shown by the fact that more than fifty years previously—even more than “a generation ago”—the impact of “western” influences upon the Tswana peoples of the Bechuanaland Protectorate (now the Republic of Botswana) had already led to many changes in the indigenous legal system, although, at that time, the “traditional courts” still survived virtually intact and not merely “in name”.The nature and extent of those changes can be readily ascertained by the fortunate chance that, there are still available the records of approximately 470 cases tried, over a period of six and a half years, in the highest traditional court of the Ngwaketse, a major Tswana chiefdom.

First words: a valedictory lecture

1998 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. F. Burnyeat
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Philosophy ◽  
Hard Part ◽  
Inaugural Lecture ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
Good Will ◽  
First Words

Mr Vice-Chancellor,May I thank you for coming to preside at this occasion, and thank everyone else for coming to be presided over – most especially my colleagues in the Faculty of Classics. You were not all here when I joined the Faculty eighteen years ago, but you have all helped to sustain the atmosphere of cooperation, good will, and intellectual adventure, which has made this Faculty such a wonderful place to work and teach in. There is much that I shall miss when I go. But that is not what I want to talk about now. To borrow the words of our Chairman, Ian DuQuesnay, I should like this occasion to be a party rather than a wake.What I want to say is this. It is too late now – twelve years too late – to apologize for not having given an Inaugural Lecture. There was no particular moment when I decided not to, just many many moments when other work seemed both more urgent and, to be honest, more interesting. The trouble with Inaugural Lectures is that you are expected to define your subject and say how it ought to be done. You begin by paying respectful tribute to your predecessor – in my case G. E. L. Owen, so the tribute would have been sincere and a pleasure to compose. But then comes the hard part, in which you set out ‘the aims and objectives’ (as the managerial language of our present rulers would have us call them) of your discipline. In other words, I would have had to tell myself and my colleagues where ancient philosophy in Cambridge ought to go and how it ought to get there.

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