The Odonata of Canada and Alaska, by Edmund M. Walker, Professor Emeritus of Zoology, University of Toronto. Honorary Curator of Zoology, Royal Ontario Museum of Zoology and Palaeontology. xi + 292 pp. 44 pls. University of Toronto Press. 1953. Price $13.00.

1954 ◽  
Vol 86 (11) ◽  
pp. 500-501
Author(s):  
G. Stuart Walley
Keyword(s):  
Professor Emeritus ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Royal Ontario Museum

Augustine Deformed: Love, Sin, and Freedom in the Western Moral Tradition.

Horizons ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 459-465
Author(s):  
William J. Collinge
Keyword(s):  
World View ◽  
Professor Emeritus ◽  
Consumer Capitalism ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Early Medieval Period ◽  
Political Conflicts ◽  
Moral Tradition ◽  
Historical Factors ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
The University

How did we arrive at “the systematically anti-Christian, indeed anti-religious, world-view which most opinion formers of the Western Establishment now profess” (6)? Several major studies in recent years have challenged the default position that this is simply the inevitable result of the progress of science, and have instead argued for the importance of contingent historical factors that could have gone otherwise. Notably, Brad Gregory's The Unintended Reformation argues that the Reformation and the doctrinal “hyperpluralism” and religio-political conflicts to which it gave rise ultimately led to modern Western secularism, moral subjectivism, and consumer capitalism. John Rist's Augustine Deformed now joins the ranks of those studies. Rist, professor emeritus of classics and philosophy at the University of Toronto, expresses much agreement with Gregory but faults him for failing to reach back to the early medieval period—in fact, to Augustine—for the causes of our present “intellectual, moral and cultural nihilism” (4).

William Arthur Parks, 1868-1936

1938 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 260-263
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Royal Ontario Museum ◽  
International Nickel Company ◽  
The University ◽  
Cleveland Ohio

William Arthur Parks, Director of the Royal Ontario Museum of Palaeontology, and until recently Professor and Head of the Department of Geology at the University of Toronto, was born at Hamilton, Ontario , 11 December, 1868. He was the son of George Dyer Parks and Kate Snelgrove, formerly of Exeter, England. His early youth was spent at Hamilton and afterwards at Bowmanville where he attended the High School from which he matriculated in 1886. Two years later, after having some training and experience in teaching, he entered the University of Toronto , where he gained various scholastic successes and graduated in Natural Sciences in 1892. His first appointment was as chemist at Sudbury and Cleveland, Ohio, to the Canadian Copper Company, which has now developed in to the International Nickel Company. In 1893 he joined the staff of the University of Toronto as Geologist, and devoted the remainder of his life until his retirement just before his death to the service of that University. He rose from grade to grade, and on the retirement of Professor A. P. Coleman in 1922 he was made Head of the Department.

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