But I have compared its text with already published commentaries on the 1960 series of Godkin lectures at Harvard, from which the book was derived, and I can with confidence challenge the gist of C. P. Snow's incautious tale ''.

To the unfortunate people unable to attend the Godkin lectures it casts an unjustifiable aura of falsehood over the book which may dissuade some people from reading it.

In his twenty-eighth year he felt the impulse to study philosophy and was recommended to the teachers in Alexandria who then had the highest reputation ; but he came away from their lectures so depressed and full of sadness that he told his trouble to one of his friends.

He was a Lecturer in Anthropology from 1937 through 1938, replacing Sapir, who was gravely ill. Whorf gave graduate level lectures on " Problems of American Indian Linguistics ".

His life and work have been celebrated by a series of annual scholarly lectures at St. Paul's Church, Jarrow from 1958 to the present.

At a Braveheart Convention in 1997, held in Stirling the day after the Scottish Devolution vote and attended by 200 delegates from around the world, Braveheart author Randall Wallace, Seoras Wallace of the Wallace Clan, Scottish historian David Ross and Bláithín FitzGerald from Ireland gave lectures on various aspects of the film.

However, no such text exists, apart from some informal popular lectures by Bohr and Heisenberg, which contradict each other on several important issues.

The main themes that Cyril focuses on in these lectures are Original sin and Jesus ’ sacrificing himself to save us from our sins.

Finally, the Institute also organizes a number of summer schools, conferences, workshops, public lectures, and outreach activities aimed primarily at junior mathematicians ( from the high school to postdoctoral level ).

There is no mention of Euclid in the earliest remaining copies of the Elements, and most of the copies say they are " from the edition of Theon " or the " lectures of Theon ", while the text considered to be primary, held by the Vatican, mentions no author.

Her sister Millicent recalled Elizabeth ’ s weekly lectures, “ Talks on Things in General ”, when her younger siblings would gather her while she discussed politics and current affairs from Garibaldi to Macauley ’ s History of England.

Soon after his arrival in New York City ( January 2, 1939 ), Fermi began working at Columbia University, where he had already given summer lectures in 1936 While at Columbia from 1939 – 42, until they moved to Chicago, Fermi and his wife resided in Leonia, New Jersey.

These short ( often one small reel ) films were often simple visual aids and accompaniments to live lectures and speeches, and were carried from city to city, town to town, village to village ( along with the lecturers ) to indoctrinate the entire countryside, even reaching areas where film had not been previously seen.

Supporters of Brown have suggested that the term should be expunged from history textbooks and lectures on medieval history entirely.

Fichte gave a wide range of public and private lectures in Berlin from the last decade of his life.

The lectures include two works from 1806.

The material for the commentaries often originated from lectures to students and ministers that he reworked for publication.

However, from 1557 onwards, he could not find the time to continue this method, and he gave permission for his lectures to be published from stenographers ' notes.

It has been said, however, that the influence he exerted on those who attended his lectures was not beneficial in this respect, that his opinions were delivered so dogmatically, and all who differed from him were disparaged and denounced so contemptuously, as to repress instead of stimulating inquiry.

The first definite impulse came from the lectures of Friedrich Karl von Savigny, the celebrated investigator of Roman law, who, as Wilhelm Grimm himself says in the preface to the Deutsche Grammatik ( German Grammar ), first taught him to realize what it meant to study any science.

The first day of the event is attributed to a National symposium on a topic related to the field of Metallurgical & Material Enginnering, where distinguished speakers from all over India and abroad present lectures.

He published lectures on the history of ancient sculpture in 1806, and painting in 1811, and edited the three volumes of an archaeological periodical called Amalthea from 1820 to 1825, which included contributions from the most eminent classical archaeologists of the day.

During this period Husserl had delivered lectures on internal time consciousness, which several decades later his former student Heidegger edited for publication.

As the course outlines of his Sorbonne lectures indicate, during this period he continues a dialogue between phenomenology and the diverse work carried out in psychology, all in order to return to the study of the acquisition of language in children, as well as to broadly take advantage of the contribution of Ferdinand de Saussure to linguistics, and to work on the notion of structure through a discussion of work in psychology, linguistics and social anthropology.

: set forth one of the first expansive theoretical treatments of Postmodernism as a historical period, intellectual trend and social phenomenon in a series of lectures at the Whitney Museum, later expanded as Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism ( 1991 ).

Over a five week period he attended many lectures and became a follower of personalism after being influenced most notably by Emmanuel Mounier.

He may have attended lectures at the Jagiellonian University at that time, including those of the famous Polish mathematician Stanisław Zaremba ( mathematician ), but little is known of that period of his life.

The Lumleian lectureship was founded by a Lord Lumley and Dr. Caldwell in 1583, consisted in pronouncing lectures for a period of seven years, with the purpose of " spreading light " and increasing the general knowledge of anatomy throughout England.

* Meetings and Seminar Proceedings: Occasional compilations containing full length or summarized versions of lectures and presentations given at PASSIA during a certain period or as part of a special project.

During this period of study, Weierstrass attended the lectures of Christoph Gudermann and became interested in elliptic functions.

Lucian's practice was to travel about, giving amusing discourses and witty lectures improvised on the spot, somewhat as a rhapsode had done in declaiming poetry at an earlier period.

Even the best of his later books, the Philosophie écossaise, the Du vrai, du beau, et du bien, and the Philosophie de Locke, were simply matured revisions of his lectures during the period from 1815 to 1820.

This period of official life from 1830 to 1848 was spent, so far as philosophical study was concerned, in revising his former lectures and writings, in maturing them for publication or reissue, and in research into certain periods of the sophical history of philosophy.

During the period of the Frankfurt Congress he had given public lectures on religion at Heidelberg.

During this period, Fénelon assisted Bossuet during his lectures on the Bible at Versailles.

During this period Law became a " self-improver "; despite his lack of formal university education he sought to test his intellect, attending lectures given at Glasgow University and joining the Glasgow Parliamentary Debating Association, which adhered as closely as possible to the layout of the real Parliament of the United Kingdom and undoubtedly helped Law hone the skills that served him so well in the political arena.

In a series of lectures given before the future King Maximilian II of Bavaria, Ranke argued that " every age is next to God ", by which he meant that every period of history is unique and must be understood in its own context.

Her tireless efforts for women's suffrage and prohibition included a fifty-day speaking tour in 1874, an average of 30, 000 miles of travel a year, and an average of four hundred lectures a year for a ten year period, mostly with her longtime companion Anna Adams Gordon.

Among his publications during this period were The Way of Peace ( 1928 ), a collection of lectures on the League ; A Great Experiment ( 1941 ), a personalised account of his relationship to the League of Nations ; and All the Way ( 1949 ), a more complete autobiography.

After this period, he traveled to England and Scotland by himself, visiting his stepmother's relative, and attending lectures by C. A.

The years 1860 were for Maiorescu the period of „ popular prelections “ ( lectures on various problemes addressed to a quite large audience ) and also the period when the foundation of the Junimea Society took place.

In his lectures, William Hazlitt praised Marston's genius for satire ; however, if the romantic critics and their successors were willing to grant Marston's best work a place among the great accomplishments of the period, they remained aware of his inconsistency, what Swinburne in a later generation called his " uneven and irregular demesne.

Over the 30-year period that Goldmark remained in New York he gave over five hundred lectures on music, music theory, and composition.

In this period he published his most important writings, among them a series of lectures on perspective in European painting throughout the ages.

During this period he gave several series of public lectures on natural history, the entrance fee being one crown, a large fee for those days.