Between Americanism and Modernism: John Zahm and Theistic Evolution

1987 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 474-490 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Scott Appleby
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
The Public ◽  
University Of Notre Dame ◽  
The Individual ◽  
American Catholic ◽  
The University ◽  
Remarkable Advance ◽  
Special Creation

“Romanism and Evolution. Remarkable Advance. No Special Creation.” “Father Zahm on the Six Days of Creation.” “Father Zahm on Inspiration.” “Father Zahm Honored with a Private Audience by His Holiness.”1 During the final decade of the nineteenth century religious periodicals and secular newspapers alike chronicled the growing fascination of the American Catholic community with the public debate over the latest theories regarding the evolution of species. One figure in particular, John Augustine Zahm, a Holy Cross priest and professor of chemistry and physics in the University of Notre Dame, captured many of the headlines and captivated Catholic audiences with his sophisticated, clear expositions of the various theories in the post-Darwinian controversies and with his repeated assurances that the idea of evolution, properly understood, posed no obstacle to the faith of the individual Catholic.

‘A Routh O’ Auld Nick-Nackets’ – the antiquarian collection of John Rae

2015 ◽  
Vol 36-37 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-183
Author(s):  
Paul Taylor
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Moral Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Representative Case ◽  
National Museums ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University

John Rae, a Scottish antiquarian collector and spirit merchant, played a highly prominent role in the local natural history societies and exhibitions of nineteenth-century Aberdeen. While he modestly described his collection of archaeological lithics and other artefacts, principally drawn from Aberdeenshire but including some items from as far afield as the United States, as a mere ‘routh o’ auld nick-nackets' (abundance of old knick-knacks), a contemporary singled it out as ‘the best known in private hands' (Daily Free Press 4/5/91). After Rae's death, Glasgow Museums, National Museums Scotland, the University of Aberdeen Museum and the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, as well as numerous individual private collectors, purchased items from the collection. Making use of historical and archive materials to explore the individual biography of Rae and his collection, this article examines how Rae's collecting and other antiquarian activities represent and mirror wider developments in both the ‘amateur’ antiquarianism carried out by Rae and his fellow collectors for reasons of self-improvement and moral education, and the ‘professional’ antiquarianism of the museums which purchased his artefacts. Considered in its wider nineteenth-century context, this is a representative case study of the early development of archaeology in the wider intellectual, scientific and social context of the era.

scholarly journals “Preparing” and “Repairing” Public Debate: Organizational Learning of Promoters in Environmental and Energy Governance

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis Simard
Keyword(s):  
Public Debate ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Infrastructure Projects ◽  
The Public ◽  
Learning Capacity ◽  
Energy Governance ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Distribution Of Resources ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Extra High Voltage

The deliberation experience, new imperative for public action (Blondiaux and Sintomer, 2002) produces some forms of learning that set in a new way the distribution of resources in punctual actors system that create infrastructure projects. If deliberative procedures could appear like moments for “metre à plat” values, ideas and solutions in a equilibrated, informed, respectful and transparency exchange, could we expect that it will suspend the power manifestations and the “rapports de force” in the pursuit of interests for stakeholders ? Analyzing the operation of environmental and energetic governance at the individual project level, from the promoter’s point of view, by looking at four extra-high-voltage (EHV) transmission line projects in France and Québec, and the consultation and deliberation procedures applied in each case, we argue that promoters learn better and quicker than the other stakeholders that are concerned by the large infrastructure projects. The radical imbalance of resources, experience and learning capacity among the actors tends to promote negotiation, before and after the public debate, with the actors considered relevant by the promoter, emptying the public debate of much of its content by leaving only the most antagonistic parties.

scholarly journals BUSINESS PLAN OF A UNIVERSITY PRESS TO THE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF PLOVDIV

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 1663-1670
Author(s):  
Kristina Kilova ◽  
Desislava Bakova ◽  
Nonka Mateva ◽  
Zhivko Peychev ◽  
Antoniya Yaneva
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Output ◽  
The Public ◽  
University Life ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
The Face ◽  
Access To Books ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University ◽  
Medical University

The creation of a University Press is a prerequisite for raising the reputation of the Medical University - Plovdiv. With its significant scientific output and the large number of students, it will represent the face of the University in front of the scientific communities and will be an important element of the national and international interuniversity communication. By documenting the individual qualities of the teachers, knowledge is preserved and its development is assisted, thus meeting the public demands. Without a developed publishing activity, it is difficult to evolve the creative potential of teachers and students. The University Press, on the one hand, is a real participant in the learning process, as it facilitates students' access to books as well as novelties in science. On the other hand, it is also a natural center of university life.

scholarly journals Copyright issues in Archives

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Kampen
Keyword(s):  
Policy Process ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
Fair Use ◽  
Fair Dealing ◽  
The Public ◽  
Digital Watermarks ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of this paper is to examine the policy process, the stakeholders, the individual policies, the public debate, and the impact that copyright, specifically fair dealing, has on access to and interaction (i.e. use) with audiovisual digital archival content in an academic archive in Canada. The paper takes a preliminary look at Canadian copyright act and the copyright modernization act as well as differences between fair use and fair dealing. It then outlines two of possible applications of the copyright act in archives by looking at digital watermarks and take-down policies.

How Realistic Can a Catholic Writer Be? Richard Sullivan and American Catholic Literature

1996 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-61
Author(s):  
Una M. Cadegan
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
University Of Notre Dame ◽  
American Catholic ◽  
The University

In 1933, a twenty-five-year-old writer named Richard Sullivan articulated for himself the qualities a novel should have. In a “Record of Work Begun and Ideas for Stories,” 1932-1933, he wrote:Let all be adoration. 9-14-33a novel must be—?American—constantly; of course, naturally.Scope—heights to depths; and length also: a lifeReligious—naturally; how else?Bitter—like life; intermittently.When he wrote these words, Sullivan had not yet published a novel; the publication of his first short story in a national magazine was still three years away. He eventually published six of his novels and dozens of short stories while teaching English at the University of Notre Dame from 1936 to 1974. Few people have heard of him or his work, and, at first glance, his life looks commonplace, even prosaic—he never lived farther than one hundred miles from his birthplace and seldom traveled; he taught at the same place, largely the same courses, for thirty-eight years; he wrote and published for almost forty years, coming tantalizingly close to major success, which nonetheless always eluded him.

Excavations at Ur of the Chaldees

1923 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 311-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Leonard Woolley
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Systematic Investigation ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Great War ◽  
The Public ◽  
Post War ◽  
The University ◽  
The Great War ◽  
Made In

It was in the middle of the nineteenth century that the site of Ur was identified and the excavation of its ruins begun by G. E. Taylor, consul at Basra, acting on behalf of the British Museum. A number of antiquities was brought back to London, but the unsensational character of the finds in southern Mesopotamia caused them to be overshadowed by the striking discoveries then being made in the northern mounds, and work was abandoned, not to be resumed until the Great War put the British in temporary possession of the country and gave it a fresh interest in the eyes of the public. In the latter part of the war Mr. R. Campbell Thompson, working for the British Museum, made soundings at Ur, but did not carry out extensive excavations; in 1919 Dr. H. R. Hall was sent out by the Trustees and began a systematic investigation of the site, employing a considerable force of men for nearly three months, and obtaining important results. Dr. Hall's work made it evident that if the site of Ur was to be tackled seriously, a whole series of campaigns extending over many years and involving very heavy outlay would be required, campaigns to which the post-war finances of the British Museum were by no means adequate. Fortunately the Trustees were at this juncture able to join forces with the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania, and it was decided that an expedition should take the field at the joint expense of the two institutions, which should also share with the Iraq Government in the material results of the work. Of this joint expedition I was asked to take charge. Mr. F. G. Newton came as architect of the party, Mr. Sidney Smith of the British Museum dealt with the inscriptions, and at the end of the year we were joined by Mr. A. W. Lawrence. Hamoudi, my Carchemish foreman, was put in charge of the men; the actual labourers were the Muntafik Arabs of the district. Digging started at the beginning of November and went on without interruption, owing to an unusually clement winter, until halfway through February.

PER UN ARCHIVIO DELLA CORRISPONDENZA DEGLI SCIENZIATI ITALIANI

Nuncius ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-211
Author(s):  
MARIO DE GREGORIO
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Close Contact ◽  
Public Library ◽  
The Public ◽  
Botanical Gardens ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University

Abstracttitle SUMMARY /title The inventory of Giorgio Santi's correspondance preserved in the Public Library of Siena shows the many relations of this tuscan chemist, botanist and naturalist, from 1776 to 1822. He grew in France in close contact with the new theories put forward by Buffon and Lavoisier. He was Professor at the University of Pisa and since 1782 director of the botanical gardens of this town. Santi is one of the most interesting italian scientific personalities between eighteenth and nineteenth century, an important representative of that Tuscan group that worked towards the achievement of the great program of the Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo, and then persued the goal under the new French administration.

scholarly journals But Is It Art? Female Performers in the Café-Concert

1989 ◽  
Vol 5 (20) ◽  
pp. 334-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geraldine Harris
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Large Majority ◽  
Popular Entertainment ◽  
The Public ◽  
Feminist Theatre ◽  
National Importance ◽  
English Music ◽  
Theatre Studies ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
The University

The Café-Concert as an object of study has tended to attract the interest of art rather than theatre historians, despite the fact that it was the major form of popular entertainment in France during the nineteenth century. Similar but not identical to the English music hall of the same period, the Café-Concert produced a number of stars of national importance, a large majority of whom were women. Through the writings of journalists and commentators of the period, this article explores how these female performers were perceived and constructed as objects of the public gaze. The author, Geraldine Harris, is a Lecturer in Theatre Studies at the University of Lancaster, with interests in both popular and feminist theatre.

scholarly journals OS ESTILOS DE FUNCIONAMENTO DA LIDERANÇA NAS COORDENAÇÕES ARQUIVO PÚBLICO DO ESTADO DA BAHIA (APEB), BRASIL.

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
SAMIR ELIAS KALIL LION ◽  
Zeny Duarte
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Styles ◽  
Work Teams ◽  
Driving Ability ◽  
Continuous Learning ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
Learning Improvement ◽  
The Public ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University

Demonstra os resultados de uma Tese acerca dos estilos de funcionamento da liderança nas Coordenações do Arquivo Público do Estado da Bahia (APEB). Para tanto, a coleta de dados se deu através da aplicação de 4 (quatro) questionários aos coordenadores das 5 (cinco) Coordenações do APEB e o tratamento dos dados foi feito em Planilha Excel. Conclui-se, dentre outras, que os arquivistas-chefe podem reunir em suas equipes diversas habilidades complementares que proporcionem desempenhos que sejam superiores aos desempenhos individuais. Desta forma são compartilhadas informações, responsabilidades e a colaboração, que garantem a geração de confiança da equipe em seu líder. É necessário também que sejam desenvolvidos o autoconhecimento e a percepção do ambiente externo através do aprendizado contínuo, melhoria dos relacionamentos, da capacidade criativa e de inovação, afinal a capacidade de condução de equipes auxilia na promoção da criatividade, ruptura do isolamento e incentivo ao trabalho multifuncional. It shows the results of a thesis about leadership styles working in the University Libraries of the Public Archive of State of Bahia (APEB). Therefore, the data collection was carried out through the application of four (4) questionnaires to the coordinators of five (5) Coordinations of APEB and the processing was done in Excel program. It concludes, among others, that archivists chiefmust to join into the members of work teams several complementary skills that provideperformance that exceeds the individual performances. In this way will be sharedinformation, responsibilities and collaboration, ensuring the team's confidence in theirleader. It also need to be developed self-knowledge and perception of the externalenvironment through continuous learning, improvement of relationships, creativity andinnovation, after all the teams driving ability helps promote creativity, insulation breakand incentive to work multifunctional.

scholarly journals Cuba, Pearl of the Caribbean

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula De La Cruz-Fernandez ◽  
Ivette Rodriguez
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Content Management ◽  
Digital Collections ◽  
University Of Florida ◽  
The Public ◽  
Intellectual Content ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The University

The George A. Smathers Libraries Graduate Internship Program Exploring the Work and Times of Cuban Intellectuals in the Nineteenth Century has published the digital resource Cuba, Pearl of the Caribbean (http://cubanthinkers.domains.uflib.ufl.edu/) to promote the rich and enlightening intellectual content of the Cuban Thinkers online collection of the University of Florida Digital Collections as well as to introduce and develop the skills of a UF graduate student in fundamental tools in Digital Humanities, including TimelineJS, Zotero, and the popular Content Management System WordPress. Through the bilingual website, the public can learn about the historical context of key Cuban thinkers of the nineteenth century and be encouraged to explore the extensive and freely accessible Cuban patrimony material of the Celebrating Cuba! Collaborative Digital Collections of Cuban Patrimony project.

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