scholarly journals Ian Morris Heilbron, 1886-1959

1960 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 65-85 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Technical College ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
High Vacuum ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
Musical Life ◽  
Assistant Director ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Leipzig

Ian Morris Heilbron, younger son of David Heilbron, was born on 6 November 1886 in Glasgow. He received his early education at the High School, Glasgow, where he became fired by an enthusiasm for chemistry. In later years he often recalled the disfavour with which his father, who was prominent in both the commercial and social life of Glasgow, viewed his determination to take up chemistry as a career, for, at the time when science still seemed to have little relation to industry, the choice appeared to offer only a limited academic career. Fortunately for chemistry and indeed eventually for all science, the young Heilbron was allowed to follow his own bent and entered the Royal Technical College, Glasgow, where he quickly came under the enduring influence of G. G. Henderson, F.R.S., an influence which Heilbron fervently acknowledged to the end of his days. It was at Henderson’s insistence that he took up a Carnegie Fellowship at the University of Leipzig where he studied under Hantzsch from 1907 to 1909 and took his Ph.D. degree. Having come from an unusually cultured environment in Glasgow, he particularly enjoyed the musical life in Leipzig. At this period he began a life-long friendship with R. Robison, F.R.S., later to achieve distinction in the biochemical field, but in later years he rarely referred to his work in Germany although it clearly had a pronounced influence in impressing on him the immense assistance which the organic chemist could derive from the application of physical methods. There is little doubt that this early experience led Heilbron directly to pioneer in due course the development in particular of spectroscopy, high vacuum distillation and chromatography in this country. On his return, Heilbron, again on the ‘advice’ of G. G. Henderson (see the first Henderson Memorial Lecture, Roy. Inst. Chem. 1947) became Lecturer at the Royal Technical College, Glasgow, until the outbreak of World War I. He had taken a Commission as Lieutenant in the R.A.S.C. in 1910, was posted overseas in the 52nd Division in 1915, and in 1917-19 served brilliantly, ultimately with the rank of Lieut.-Colonel, as Assistant Director of Supplies at G.H.Q. Salonika. He was three times mentioned in despatches, was awarded the Médaille d’Honneur of the Greek Order of the Redeemer, and at home was honoured with the award of the D.S.O.

Othmar Spann and the Quest for a “True State,”

1976 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 227-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Haag
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
World War ◽  
Old Order ◽  
Social Theorist ◽  
The Social ◽  
Conservative Revolution ◽  
True State ◽  
Economic Collapse ◽  
The University

The Austrian scholar and social theorist Othmar Spann (1878–1950) was a major figure in the “conservative revolution” that fired the imagination of many Central European intellectuals after World War I. Born in the Habsburg monarchy as it was disintegrating under the pressures of nationalism and industrialization, Spann seemed destined for a conventional academic career until war, revolution, and economic collapse destroyed the social and ideological foundations of the old order in 1918. A series of lectures delivered at the University of Vienna soon after the war quickly made Spann a major spokesman for the “war generation”—young men whose roughhewn idealism found few outlets in the grim world of postwar Central Europe.

One-Third of a Campus: Ruth Crawford Mitchell and Second-Generation Americans at the University of Pittsburgh

2008 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold S. Wechsler
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Student Body ◽  
University Of Pittsburgh ◽  
College Life ◽  
The Many ◽  
Great Crash ◽  
The University

It was confusing to him. He was in a world which had a set of rules all its own. He knew the other rules—the rules of his own world. But these were different. Men actually lived their four years away at the University, and sent children after them. It was a wild, improbable thing to have fallen into, and the day student looked at his fellows, could distinguish them no differences among them at first, and felt lost. His evenings were spent in the company of old friends and in the old places; his days at the college. And he plunged from past to present; present to past. They told him about loyalty, and he went home to think about it. But at home it became dim and unreal. Then he went back, the next morning, and they told him of loyalty again, of the mighty traditions. If he took it to heart he could only do so above the sickening realization that at four o'clock he must be on Trolley 13 again. And it was hard to take the traditions over the river.Samuel Lipschutz, B.A.University of Pennsylvania, 1929Many of our alumni and some of our students, supported by more than a few of our faculty and corporation, have seriously queried whether or no Brown, in common with other institutions located in a like environment, has in her student body too large a proportion of socially undesirable students. We are most emphatically not concerned with Jew-baiting. I am proud to say that race and creed are still not valid causes for concern in the liberal community founded by Roger Williams. But some of us are worried by the influx of alien blood into what was not so long ago a homogeneous group of students prevailingly Baptist and Anglo-Saxon. Says one alumnus, “A certain type of student is far below the standard we should like to see. I refer to those called carpet-baggers! They live in or near Providence, arrive at the University in the morning in time for their first class, park themselves, their books, and their lunch in the Union, leave the college the minute their last class is over, take no part in college life, absorb all they can, give back nothing of benefit, and probably will prove no credit to the University as alumni.” Surely some of you have heard the same tale.—Kenneth O. MasonDean of Freshmen, Brown University, 1927Were colleges obliged to address the dilemmas faced by the many firstand second-generation Americans who enrolled after World War I? No, replied many administrators who espoused exclusion or assimilation, or who expressed indifference. These attitudes meant that many students would never learn to navigate the turbulent waters of campus social life. Dropout rates were significant even before the Great Crash created insurmountable financial difficulties for numerous undergraduates. The testimony of peers who remained suggested that success often came despite institutional hostility.

George William Kenneth 'Ken' Cavill 1922–2017

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 172
Author(s):  
Doreen V. Clark ◽  
Jennifer A. Genion
Keyword(s):  
Technical College ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
World War ◽  
Senior Lecturer ◽  
Bachelor Of Science ◽  
World War 2 ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The University ◽  
Australian Academy

Ken Cavill knew from his high school years that his career lay in science. Whilst completing his Bachelor of Science at the University of Sydney he chose to focus on organic chemistry and made his academic career in that field. Ken gained his PhD at Liverpool University in England in 1949 and was awarded a DSc from that university in 1957. He was employed during World War 2 at W. Hermon Slade & Co., and then as a lecturer in chemistry at Sydney Technical College, becoming a senior lecturer at the newly formed University of New South Wales (UNSW), where he had a distinguished career in research and teaching until his retirement in 1982. He received the first personal chair awarded by the university in 1964 and was made a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 1969. He was made an emeritus professor by UNSW in 1983. He actively pursued collaboration between chemistry and biology, and pioneered studies in Australia on the chemistry of insect venoms, attractants and repellents, leaving a legacy of a well-respected body of work in this field. Ken was awarded a Centenary of Federation Medal in 2001 for his service to Australian society and science in the field of organic biological chemistry. Pursuing his love of Australiana, he devoted his retirement to researching and writing about Australian silverware and jewellery manufacturers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

scholarly journals MacIntyre and the Challenges of Higher Education in the 21st Century

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 ((2) 18) ◽  
pp. 13-33
Author(s):  
Miguel Angel Belmonte
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Alasdair Macintyre ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Important Place ◽  
New Model ◽  
The University ◽  
Moral Discourses

Reflection on the nature of the university and its role in contemporary society occupies an important place in the work of the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre. His academic career and his view of the incommensurable nature of moral discourses combine to suggest an original and provocative proposal for a new model of higher education. This model is characterized by a unity based on a philosophical and theological formality capable of dispelling the dangers of fragmentation and utilitarian specialization. In MacIntyre’s proposal, the university becomes the most important vehicle for organizing knowledge and, consequently, for ordering social life.

scholarly journals Celtic Correspondences: Letters from Whitley Stokes to Adolphe Pictet and from Henri d'Arbois de Jubainville to Ernst Windisch

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 111-128
Author(s):  
Bernhard Maier ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Academic Career ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Institutional Setting ◽  
Founding Fathers ◽  
Collège De France ◽  
Long Time ◽  
History Of ◽  
Celtic Studies ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Leipzig

When Johann Caspar Zeuss laid the foundations of modern Celtic Philology with his Grammatica Celtica (1853), he had at least three immediate forerunners: the English physician and anthropologist James Cowles Prichard (1786–1848) with his book The Eastern Origin of the Celtic Nations (1831), the Swiss specialist in ballistics and amateur linguist Adolphe Pictet (1799–1875) with his essay ‘De l’affinité des langues celtiques avec le sanscrit’ (1836), and the German founding father of Comparative Philology Franz Bopp (1791–1867) with his treatise ‘Über die celtischen Sprachen vom Gesichtspunkt der vergleichenden Sprachforschung’ (1838). However, as Prichard had died as early as 1848 and Bopp had moved on to studying other branches of Indo-European, it was only Adolphe Pictet who continued his Celtic researches in the wake of Zeuss’ seminal work, publishing articles in scholarly periodicals and corresponding with fellow scholars in Ireland, Britain, France and Germany. For the last sixteen years of his life, Pictet exchanged letters with Whitley Stokes, who was just beginning to make his name in Celtic Philology at that time. While Pictet’s letters to Stokes have yet to be traced, 26 letters and two postcards from Stokes to Pictet are extant among the papers of Adolphe Pictet in the Library of Geneva. Among the papers of the German Celticist and Indologist Ernst Windisch (1844–1918), which are preserved in the Archive of the University of Leipzig, the most extensive collection of letters and postcards in the field of Celtic Studies is due to Kuno Meyer (1858–1919), who was among Windisch’s earliest, most faithful and most productive pupils. Next to this, the most extensive Celtic correspondence of Windisch appears to have been with his French colleague Henri d’Arbois de Jubainville (1827–1910), first professor of Celtic at the Collège de France and long-time editor of Révue celtique. Unlike Windisch, who was an Indo-Europeanist by training and continued to combine an interest in ancient Ireland with one in ancient India for most of his active academic career, d’Arbois de Jubainville was first and foremost an historian with a strong archaeological bent. Both men, however, shared a keen interest in the fabric of ancient civilisations and its reflection in literature. Between 1884 and 1907, more than fifty letters and postcards from d’Arbois to Windisch testify to the cordial relationship between the two scholars, who are among the most important founding fathers of Celtic Studies as an academic discipline in France and Germany. In this paper, I shall try to present an overview of these letters, pointing out in which ways and to which extent they reflect specific problems of research, the institutional setting of Celtic Studies in the decades around 1900, and the personality of the letter writers. In conclusion I shall address the question to what extent a comprehensive analysis and appraisal of as yet unpublished scholarly letters may contribute not only to a profounder understanding of the formation and early history of Celtic Studies, but also to an enhanced appreciation of its present situation.

scholarly journals Rudolf Dvořák’s Stay in Leipzig and Munich in the Light of Correspondence with Vojta Náprstek: a Selection of Documents

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-117
Author(s):  
Ondřej Crhák
Keyword(s):  
Academic Career ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Strong Sense ◽  
Founding Fathers ◽  
The World ◽  
Oriental Studies ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Leipzig ◽  
Selection Of

Rudolf Dvořak, one of the founding fathers of Czech Oriental studies, began his academic career as a student at the Faculty of Arts in Prague. In 1882 and 1883 he studied at the University of Leipzig, where he also successfully completed his dissertation. After finishing his studies, he continued his career at the Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague. He focused mainly mainly on the Chinese and Middle Eastern regions and translated many texts from these areas. Dvořak’s attitudes were under influence of patriotism and nationalism. This mindset, together with a focus on the study of Oriental studies, led Dvořak to Vojta Naprstek, who espoused the ideas of emancipation of the Czech nation and showed an interest in distant lands and cultures. The two men also shared the same attitude to science and scholarship in general. They wished to elevate Czech learning to a competitive level on the world stage and shared strong sense of patriotism. These two intellectuals were in active contact during Dvořak’s studies in Germany. Dvořak share his opinions, experiences and attractions from Leipzig and Munchen. In letters he described situation at university and information about its professors. This study brings an edition of these letters.

scholarly journals Mazāk zināmais par Ulža Ģērmaņa publikāciju tapšanu un likteņiem

Letonica ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 29-42
Author(s):  
Viesturs Zanders
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
Soviet Occupation ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Soviet Russia ◽  
The University

The records on writer and historian Uldis Ģērmanis (1915–1997) at the Academic Library of the University of Latvia reveal the origins of the most important publications, as well as their resonance in the exile community and later also in Latvian society. The documents that can be found here and in other repositories allow following the creation of Uldis Ģērmanis’s works and their echoes in the exile community. The essay Latviešu strēlnieku vēsturiskā nozīme (The Historical Significance of Latvian Riflemen) written by Jukums Vācietis and commented by U. Ģērmanis that was published in the book Pa aizputinātām pēdām (1956) gave rise to intensive exchange of ideas for the opportunity to publish a text in exile written in the Soviet Russia and to the debates on the role of Latvian riflemen in the fight for the statehood of Latvia. Furthermore, the book by U. Ģērmanis Latviešu tautas piedzīvojumi (The Adventures of Latvian Nation, 1959) offers a new approach in attracting the interest of youth to the history of Latvia. The correspondence of U. Ģērmanis shows a dilemma of a Latvian intellectual between the desire to have an academic career and the necessity to get actively involved in the social life in exile. It shows the different opinions of U. Ģērmanis and other intellectuals in exile concerning the contacts of Latvian cultural and academic circles with the exile community that were controlled by the Soviet security institutions, which led to tensions in their relationship or even the loss of contact with several friends and colleagues of U. Ģērmanis. The research of the epistolary heritage of U. Ģērmanis attests to his long-term engagement in the creation of monthly magazine Brīvība, as well as provides so far unknown information about the circulation of information between Latvia and exile communities in the years of the Soviet occupation.

William D. Phillips Memorial Lecture

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.J.H. Ackerman
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Resonance ◽  
Kansas City ◽  
Technology Policy ◽  
Good Friend ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
Wellesley College ◽  
Assistant Director ◽  
Cancer Of The Prostate ◽  
The University ◽  
Washington University

It is a privilege to be able to share with you a few moments of reflection on William Dale Phillips, a good friend of mine and of many in this audience (Presented at a plenary session of the XVth International Conference on Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems, August 14-19, 1994, Veldhoven, the Netherlands). Bill Phillips was a pioneer in the use of magnetic resonance for determination of protein structure. Although a major portion of his scientific career was spent in industry, primarily at EI du Pont de Nemours and Co. in Wilmington, Delaware. Bill also spent time in service to academics and the federal government. He most recently served as Associate Director for Industrial Technology in the Bush Administration’s Office of Science and Technology Policy. He was 68. The cause of his death was cancer of the prostate. I first met Bill Phillips in 1979 when George Radda, in whose laboratory I was working, suggested that I contact his good friend regarding a position at Washington University. Phillips had recently moved from DuPont, where he had been Assistant Director of Research and Development, to Washington University in St. Louis where he was Charles Allen Thomas Professor and Chairman of the Department of Chemistry. Bill had been given the task of rebuilding the department. I was immediately struck by his vision and sense of commitment. This was a person who got things done. I was hooked. In many ways Bill’s move to St. Louis was a return home to his beloved Midwest. He was born in Kansas, City, Missouri and grew up there graduating from high school at the age of 17 in 1943. During the war he served in the U.S. Navy V-12 program achieving the rank of Lt. (jg). After the war he returned to the Midwest and in 1948 he received a B.A. in chemistry from the University of Kansas. Following his undergraduate education, Bill left the Midwest again, this time for a long sojourn to the east coast. First stop was MIT where he studied physical chemistry (focusing on the vibrational spectroscopy of organic molecules). He received his Ph.D. in 1951. It was at MIT that Bill met Esther Parker, a Wellesley College student, better known to her friends as “Cherry”. Married in 1951, Cherry was a loving partner assisting Bill in his many adventures.

scholarly journals The Academic Career of Nikolai Fedorovich Preobrazhensky (1893–1970)

Monitor ISH ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-150
Author(s):  
Željko Oset
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
World War ◽  
Bolshevik Revolution ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Language Classes ◽  
The University ◽  
First World

The article presents the efforts of Nikolai Fedorovich Preobrazhensky, a young and little known Russian scholar, for an academic career at the University of Ljubljana. After the First World War Preobrazhensky decided not to return to Russia, where the Bolshevik revolution had broken out. Encouraged by the goodwill of Slovenian scholars, especially Rajko Nahtigal, whom he had met in Graz, he decided to realise his youthful dream of an academic career at the newly founded University of Ljubljana. But despite his efforts and repeated attempts, his intentions never completely materialised. Unsuccessful attempts at habilitation at the University of Ljubljana, where he taught practical Russian language classes, were an enormous blow to his self-esteem. He succeeded as late as 1958, after he had already been habilitated at the School of Arts in Zadar and decided to leave Slovenia, which became after World War I his second homeland.

Frances Jewell McVey and the Refinement of Student Culture

2020 ◽  
pp. 57-100
Author(s):  
Terry L. Birdwhistell ◽  
Deirdre A. Scaggs
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
University President ◽  
Student Culture ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
Difficult Decision ◽  
Vassar College ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

This chapter introduces Frances Jewell McVey, a graduate of Vassar College and Columbia University, and illustrates her impact on UK women’s academics and social life and how she sought to instill aspects of student culture that she had known at Vassar into a southern public coeducational university. It explains Jewell’s difficult decision to marry the university president and abandon her professional career goals. It also explores the impact of World War I on both women faculty and students, and it discusses the entrance of women students into nontraditional academic areas, such as engineering.

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