One day, Korzybski was giving a lecture to a group of students, and he interrupted the lesson suddenly in order to retrieve a packet of biscuits, wrapped in white paper, from his briefcase.

On the way home from Riemann's lecture, Weber reported that Gauss was full of praise and excitement.

* ( iTunes link ) Podcast lecture on Candide, from Dr Martin Evans at Stanford University

Historian Geoffrey Hosking in his 2005 Modern Scholar lecture course suggested that citizenship in ancient Greece arose from an appreciation for the importance of freedom.

The lecture also gives a sort of insight to what Jesus may have be feeling during the execution from the whippings and beatings, to the crown of thorns, to the nailing on the cross.

This is only 35 years before John Thomas ' 1849 lecture tour in Britain which attracted significant support from an existing non-Trinitarian Adventist base, particularly, initially, in Scotland where Arian Socinian and unitarian ( with a small ' u ' as distinct from the Unitarian Church of Theophilus Lindsey ) views were prevalent.

In a lecture on the current system of international communication Piron argued that " Esperanto relies entirely on innate reflexes " and " differs from all other languages in that you can always trust your natural tendency to generalize patterns ...

Also, it is said that Erasmus chose to remain a Roman Catholic because of a lecture he heard from Savonarola, the Dominican friar who was highly influential in Florence for a time.

His most famous pupil, Arrian, studied under him when a young man ( c. 108 AD ) and claimed to have written the famous Discourses from his lecture notes, though some argue they should be considered an original composition by Arrian, comparable to the Socratic literature.

Achebe's lecture prompted a lively debate, reactions at the time ranged from dismay and outrage — Achebe recounted a Professor Emeritus from the University of Massachusetts saying to Achebe after the lecture, " How dare you upset everything we have taught, everything we teach?

As a young man, Cagney became interested in farming – sparked by a soil conservation lecture he had attended – and during his first walkout from Warners, he found a farm in Martha's Vineyard ; owning a farm had long been a dream of his.

* December 6, 2005 lecture given by Karon at the National Cathedral, entitled Wrestling with and Writing from the Heart

Following his lecture on laparoscopic appendectomy, the president of the German Surgical Society wrote to the Board of Directors of the German Gynecological Society suggesting suspension of Semm from medical practice.

In 2001, inspired by the open source and open access movements, MIT launched OpenCourseWare to make the lecture notes, problem sets, syllabuses, exams, and lectures from the great majority of its courses available online for no charge, though without any formal accreditation for coursework completed.

Boys from Stowe school were in attendance at one lecture and tour conducted by Evans himself at age 85, walking with a stick, remembered by Ventris, who was present.

The building housed the pure mathematicians from the Victoria University of Manchester between moving out of the Mathematics Tower in 2004 and July 2007 when the School of Mathematics moved in to its new Alan Turing Building, where a lecture room is named in his honour.

In November 1990, following a speech to an audience of mostly Orthodox Jews from Brooklyn, as a crowd of well-wishers gathered around Kahane in the second-floor lecture hall in midtown Manhattan's Marriott East Side Hotel, Kahane was assassinated.

Mohism is best known for the concept of " impartial love " or " universal love " () and " No Evasion " () Mozi's philosophy was described in the book Mozi, compiled by his students from his lecture notes.

During a 2010 lecture at the University of Missouri, which was broadcast by C-Span, Dr. Mueller has also argued that the threat from nuclear weapons has been exaggerated, both in the popular media and by officials.

This interview resulted in the cancellation of a Royal Society lecture, along with other public engagements, and his suspension from his administrative position at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

As a woman, Germain was barred from attending, but the new system of education made the “ lecture notes available to all who asked.

Ornament and Crime was first spoken in a lecture on 21 January 1910 in Vienna and first published in Cahiers d ' aujourd ' hui 5 / 1913 by the influential and self-consciously " modern " Austrian architect Adolf Loos under the German title Ornament und Verbrechen.

In 2006, he was appointed Professorial Fellow at the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law, and in October 2007 he presented his inaugural professorial lecture, " Finding Security in Terrorism ’ s Shadow: The importance of the rule of law ".

With an entrance overlooking Lincoln's Fields, the new building has dramatically increased the size of the campus, incorporating four new lecture theatres, the Departments of Management and Law, computer and study facilities.

He expressed his pedagogical principles in two main Latin works, Institutiones iurisprudentiae divinae ( Institutes of Divine Jurisprudence, 1688 ), based on a lecture on Pufendorf ’ s natural law, and Fundamenta juris naturae et gentium ( Foundations of the Law of Nature and Nations, 1705 ).

Bose adapted this lecture into a short article called " Planck's Law and the Hypothesis of Light Quanta " and submitted it to the Philosophical Magazine.

The inaugural George Winterton lecture was delivered by Chief Justice Robert French, of the High Court of Australia, at the Sydney Law School, the University of Sydney, on the topic of the Executive Power under the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia in February 2010.

The first institution established for the sole purpose of teaching law was the Litchfield Law School, set up by Judge Tapping Reeve in 1784 to organize the large number of would-be apprentices or lecture attendees that he attracted.

On 24 October he gave his first lecture, to " a crowded audience "; the text was soon printed and published as A Discourse on the Study of the Law.

Posthumous publications by his students, editing their lecture notes based on his lectures, include The Constitutional History of England, Equity, and The Forms of Action at Common Law.

The first lecture in the Law School was delivered on Monday, Nov. 1, 1858, by Mr. Dwight, at the rooms of the Historical Society.

The book emerged from a set of lectures that Hart began to deliver in 1952, and it is presaged by his Holmes lecture, Positivism and the Separation of Law and Morals delivered at Harvard Law School.

He gave his final lecture as Regius Professor, entitled ' Just Law ', on Monday 28 January 2008.

In January 2010 Baroness Scotland gave the keynote address to the Faculty of Law of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as part of the Lionel Cohen lecture series.

It is later revealed during a lecture by Dr. Leving, that this is so the New Law robots she proposes can be safeguarded and kept from mingling with the human population as a whole, since they are designed to aid in terraforming work, and therefore represent a great investment of time and materials in order to construct.

* The Chaucer Building on the City Site, home of Nottingham Law School, Centre for Broadcast Journalism and the School of Social Sciences has been fully refurbished, with new paintwork, signage, reception, lecture theatres, and lifts.

In 2007, Queen Beatrix opened the new building for the Peace Palace Library of International Law, housing the entire catalogue of the library, a lecture hall and a new reading room in the bridge to the main building of the Peace Palace.

On April 1, 1991, Guzmón was shot dead by members of the armed left-wing group Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front ( Frente Patriótico Manuel Rodríguez ), after leaving his lecture of Constitutional Law at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.

NYU Law School Conference Towards a Free Information Ecology and a lecture series on Information ecology at Duke University Law School's Center for the Study of the Public Domain.

On Thursday 16 November 2006, Lord Bingham delivered the sixth annual Sir David Williams lecture hosted by the Centre for Public Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge.

* Webcast of a lecture on forensic linguistics given by Roger W. Shuy at the University of Montana School of Law

The Chicago Public Library offers free lecture series covering a variety of topics including: Law at the Library ( a free monthly lecture series that offers participants the opportunity to speak with a legal professional about a variety of legal topics ), Money Smart ( a series of financial literacy programs ), and Author Series.