Post-College Achievement of Veterans of World War I Enrolled in the University of Colorado

1946 ◽  
Vol 54 (10) ◽  
pp. 593-597 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Bangert

Rudolf Kolisch was an Austrian-born violinist, teacher, and conductor. As leader of the Kolisch Quartet he premiered many important chamber works by the Second Viennese School and other modernist composers of the first half of the twentieth century. He later became leader of the Pro Arte Quartet and taught at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and at the New England Conservatory in Boston. Kolisch was born in Klamm am Semmering, Austria on 20 July 1896. His father Rudolf was a doctor and his mother Henriette a pianist. Soon after starting violin lessons, an injury to his left hand led him to hold the violin in his right hand and bow left-handed. He attended the Vienna Music Academy and the University of Vienna, but his postgraduate studies were interrupted by three years of service in the Austrian army during World War I. His teachers included the Czech violinist Otakar Ševčík, the composer Franz Schrecker, and the musicologist Guido Adler.


Slavic Review ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 804-811
Author(s):  
Joan Afferica

Professor Valk, the distinguished dean of Leningrad historians, died on February 5 of 1975 at the age of eighty-seven. To review his career is to recall the splendid historical training provided by the University of St. Petersburg on the eve of World War I and to retrace the course of Soviet historical study, many of its principal aims, priorities, methods, and achievements. Professor Valk’s scholarly legacy includes over two hundred printed works; generations of students who benefited from his erudition, prodigious memory, and generous spirit; and a lasting contribution to the development of Soviet archival science and source study.


2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (03) ◽  
pp. 349-359
Author(s):  
Ben Wright

AbstractSince 2015, America has witnessed a profound shift in aggregate public sentiments toward Confederate statues and symbols. That shift was keenly felt on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin (UT), culminating in the removal of four such statues in 2015 and 2017. However, an inquiry into their creation points to an equally significant shift in sentiments during the 1920s. UT's statues were commissioned in 1919 by George Littlefield, a Confederate veteran and university regent, as part of a larger war memorial. The ostensible purpose of that memorial was to commemorate veterans of both the Civil War and World War I. However, during the 1920s, a new generation of university leaders rejected Littlefield's design—and with it the assertion that the services of Civil and World War veterans were morally congruent and united in a common historical trajectory. This article tracks the ways in which they quietly and yet profoundly undermined the project, causing it to be significantly delayed and then extensively altered. Meanwhile, students and veterans improvised their own commemorative practices that were in stark contrast to the Confederate generation—the latter wanted to remember, while the former wanted to forget.


1999 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 507-518
Author(s):  
Michael A. Hall

Philip Wareing was born in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, and after World War I moved to Benfleet and then to Watford, where he received his schooling. After leaving school he entered the Civil Service and took his BSc at Birkbeck College, University of London, where he studied part-time. After service during World War II in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, he took up a post as a demonstrator and then an assistant lecturer at Bedford College, University of London, obtaining his PhD in 1948. In 1950 he moved to the Department of Botany at Manchester and in 1958 he was appointed Professor of Botany in the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, in which post he remained until his retirement in 1981.


2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 564-599
Author(s):  
John David Smith

This article examines the World War I service of the University of Michigan historian Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (1877–1934). Phillips worked first with black recruits as a volunteer officer for the Young Men's Christian Association at Camp Gordon, Georgia, and later as a U.S. Army Military Intelligence officer in Washington, DC. In these years, Phillips ranked as America's foremost authority on the antebellum South generally and of African American slavery in particular. In 1918 he published his landmarkAmerican Negro Slavery. While on leave from Ann Arbor, Phillips taught English and French, planned educational and recreational programs, and supervised the management and construction of buildings at Camp Gordon's segregated facilities. Phillips's daily interactions with black troops in the cantonment reaffirmed—at least as he saw it—his conclusions that North American slavery had been a relatively benign institution, his belief in the virtues of plantation paternalism and in the management of subject peoples by educated whites, and his attitude that contemporary race relations were generally harmonious. Phillips's observations of African American recruits validated his conviction that blacks benefited most from white-run, regimented organizations and strengthened his belief in economic assimilation and social segregation. His military intelligence work confirmed Phillips's overall commitment to conservative change, whether in foreign or race relations.


1976 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 227-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Haag

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.


2013 ◽  
Vol 94 (2) ◽  
pp. 283-284
Author(s):  
A A Akhunzyanov

Vladimir Leonidovich Borman was the first pediatric surgeon of the Imperial Kazan University, participated in the Russo-Japanese War, World War I and the Civil War. In 1900 a novel course of pediatric surgical diseases was started at the university. A new pediatric clinic was launched among other new clinics, and Vladimir Leonidovich Borman, a surgeon and a doctor of medicine, was invited to head one of the departments there. Since then the teaching of pediatric surgical diseases for Imperial Kazan University medical faculty students has been performed at the pediatric ward of the faculty surgery clinic. Then Vladimir Leonidovich participated in surgical service foundation in many parts of the country both at peace and wartime, he became the founder of the Omsk State Medical University department of hospital surgery. The contribution of that amazing, energetic, talented doctor and teacher to Russian medicine can not be overestimated.


2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 590-604
Author(s):  
Holger H. Herwig

Sir Hew Strachan of the University of St Andrews is the doyen of World War I studies. He approached his work from a serious multinational, multilingual, and comparative perspective. He was never afraid to challenge well-established interpretations and to add fresh analyses of concepts ranging from total war to trench warfare. He was always keen to include diplomacy, politics, imperialism, industrialization, and the sinews of war in his writings. From ‘origins’ to ‘consequences’, Strachan led his readers through the challenging shoals of Great War studies. One can hardly wait for the second instalment of his opus, The First World War: No Quarter.


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