R. G. M. Nisbet
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197263204
- eISBN:
- 9780191734205
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197263204.003.0018
- Subject:
- History, Historiography
W. S. Watt, known to his friends as Bill, was one of the leading Latin scholars of his time. His long and energetic life makes an impressive story. To look back at it prompts reflection on the ...
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W. S. Watt, known to his friends as Bill, was one of the leading Latin scholars of his time. His long and energetic life makes an impressive story. To look back at it prompts reflection on the changing patterns of education and scholarship in the 20th century. In 1952 Watt was appointed Regius Professor of Humanity in the University of Aberdeen. He became an excellent lecturer who made the right answer very clear even to the less experienced. He gave thought to the future of his best honours students, some of whom with his encouragement moved on to Oxford or Cambridge and pursued successful careers in classics or other fields. He still based his teaching on prepared books and prose composition, following the tradition that was changing in other universities; essays on Latin literature (as opposed to ancient history) were not required, but in later years he set passages for linguistic and literary comment, a form of exercise that is perhaps not practised enough.Less
W. S. Watt, known to his friends as Bill, was one of the leading Latin scholars of his time. His long and energetic life makes an impressive story. To look back at it prompts reflection on the changing patterns of education and scholarship in the 20th century. In 1952 Watt was appointed Regius Professor of Humanity in the University of Aberdeen. He became an excellent lecturer who made the right answer very clear even to the less experienced. He gave thought to the future of his best honours students, some of whom with his encouragement moved on to Oxford or Cambridge and pursued successful careers in classics or other fields. He still based his teaching on prepared books and prose composition, following the tradition that was changing in other universities; essays on Latin literature (as opposed to ancient history) were not required, but in later years he set passages for linguistic and literary comment, a form of exercise that is perhaps not practised enough.
David L Carey Miller
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781845860677
- eISBN:
- 9781474406260
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781845860677.003.0007
- Subject:
- Law, Legal History
This chapter explores the legal dispute between the University of Aberdeen and the Queen's and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer (QLTR) of the Crown regarding the ownership of St. Ninian's isle treasure ...
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This chapter explores the legal dispute between the University of Aberdeen and the Queen's and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer (QLTR) of the Crown regarding the ownership of St. Ninian's isle treasure in Shetland. The University, led by Principal Thomas Taylor QC, initially intended to house the treasure in the Museum of Marischal College until such time as a suitable museum was available in Shetland. However, the Crown, through QLTR, claimed its absolute right of ownership over the treasure based on the quod nullius principle — the vesting of the title to ownerless moveable goods, which had been previously owned, in the Crown. As a defence, the University argued that, under the udal tenure law, the absolute ownership of buried things is vested in the landowner. Despite the quashing of the University's claim, the treasure remained in their possession for about two years before it was transferred to the Crown.Less
This chapter explores the legal dispute between the University of Aberdeen and the Queen's and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer (QLTR) of the Crown regarding the ownership of St. Ninian's isle treasure in Shetland. The University, led by Principal Thomas Taylor QC, initially intended to house the treasure in the Museum of Marischal College until such time as a suitable museum was available in Shetland. However, the Crown, through QLTR, claimed its absolute right of ownership over the treasure based on the quod nullius principle — the vesting of the title to ownerless moveable goods, which had been previously owned, in the Crown. As a defence, the University argued that, under the udal tenure law, the absolute ownership of buried things is vested in the landowner. Despite the quashing of the University's claim, the treasure remained in their possession for about two years before it was transferred to the Crown.
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781846311918
- eISBN:
- 9781846315886
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781846311918.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry
The early published poems of Anne Hunter appeared anonymously in anthologies, books of music or as broadsheets; they can be identified as hers because the texts are among her manuscripts. This is ...
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The early published poems of Anne Hunter appeared anonymously in anthologies, books of music or as broadsheets; they can be identified as hers because the texts are among her manuscripts. This is also true of her Nine canzonetts ... and six airs, for which she wrote both words and music. Anne's manuscripts are in several collections, most notably those of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, the University of Aberdeen, the National Library of Scotland and a private collection (the Jobson Papers), with a few in the Wellcome Library and the British Library. The majority are unpublished. Many of Anne's poems appear in several different manuscript volumes with slight variations in wording, punctuation and capitalization. Almost all are fair copies, written out in Anne's own hand in her old age, rather than original working drafts.Less
The early published poems of Anne Hunter appeared anonymously in anthologies, books of music or as broadsheets; they can be identified as hers because the texts are among her manuscripts. This is also true of her Nine canzonetts ... and six airs, for which she wrote both words and music. Anne's manuscripts are in several collections, most notably those of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, the University of Aberdeen, the National Library of Scotland and a private collection (the Jobson Papers), with a few in the Wellcome Library and the British Library. The majority are unpublished. Many of Anne's poems appear in several different manuscript volumes with slight variations in wording, punctuation and capitalization. Almost all are fair copies, written out in Anne's own hand in her old age, rather than original working drafts.
Mary Jo Nye
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226610634
- eISBN:
- 9780226610658
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226610658.003.0009
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
This chapter discusses Michael Polanyi's incentive for the publication of his Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy of Science, which was an invitation to give a set of Gifford ...
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This chapter discusses Michael Polanyi's incentive for the publication of his Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy of Science, which was an invitation to give a set of Gifford Lectures at the University of Aberdeen. The mandate of the lectures is one of discussing natural religion or natural theology as knowledge “without reference to or reliance upon any supposed special exceptional or so-called miraculous revelation.” The lectures and their revision in Personal Knowledge owed a considerable debt to the philosopher Marjorie Grene, who worked with Polanyi as his assistant and critic throughout the 1950s. The multifaceted origins and audiences for the book in its religious, political, humanistic, and sociological dimensions are demonstrated in the names of those whom Polanyi asked to read the manuscript: the Christian ecumenist J. H. Oldham, the neoconservative journalist Irving Kristol, the poet and novelist Elizabeth Sewell, and the sociologist Edward Shils.Less
This chapter discusses Michael Polanyi's incentive for the publication of his Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy of Science, which was an invitation to give a set of Gifford Lectures at the University of Aberdeen. The mandate of the lectures is one of discussing natural religion or natural theology as knowledge “without reference to or reliance upon any supposed special exceptional or so-called miraculous revelation.” The lectures and their revision in Personal Knowledge owed a considerable debt to the philosopher Marjorie Grene, who worked with Polanyi as his assistant and critic throughout the 1950s. The multifaceted origins and audiences for the book in its religious, political, humanistic, and sociological dimensions are demonstrated in the names of those whom Polanyi asked to read the manuscript: the Christian ecumenist J. H. Oldham, the neoconservative journalist Irving Kristol, the poet and novelist Elizabeth Sewell, and the sociologist Edward Shils.
