McMaster University, Volume 2
McMaster University, Volume 2

Author: Charles M. Johnston

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2015-09-01

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 0773584226

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McMaster University was established in 1887 as a trust to the Baptist constituency of central Canada. This second volume of the university’s history chronicles its transformation from a modest university college into an important university. It is the story of survival through the Depression and the Second World War to eventual emergence as a recognized scientific research centre and of how this role, never envisaged at the time when arts and theology were McMaster’s chief concerns, dictated the university’s divorce from its original Baptist sponsors. McMaster’s move to Hamilton in 1930 coincided with the Depression, a catastrophe that haunted the university throughout the decade, thwarting new programs, forcing economies, and shattering the hopes entertained for the institution during the 1920s. This chastening interlude was followed by war, which further curbed development and created serious financial and enrolment problems, but the war also spurred scientific research, particularly in nuclear physics. Funds for science were sought outside the Baptist constituency, but to be eligible for them a new and separate institution had to be formed, so in 1948 Hamilton College was incorporated and affiliated with McMaster. Members of the arts faculty were disturbed by the growing stress on science, and the university’s attempts to strengthen arts and theology in the 1950s so threatened to overtax its resources that McMaster was forced to seek state aid for its entire operation. In 1957, McMaster was reorganized as a private non-denominational institution, eligible for public funding. Its days as a Baptist university came to an end. Charles Johnston pays tribute to those dedicated and resourceful administrators who, through depression, war, and ideological conflicts, provided the expertise essential to the survival and growth of McMaster. This volume, like its predecessor and successor, will be of interest to anyone concerned with the cultural and intellectual growth of the nation.

McMaster University, Volume 3: 1957-1987
McMaster University, Volume 3: 1957-1987

Author: James G. Greenlee

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2015-05-01

Total Pages: 507

ISBN-13: 077358269X

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In 1957, McMaster was a small Baptist enclave of traditional higher learning on the western outskirts of Hamilton. Thirty years later it was home to the only nuclear reactor on a Commonwealth campus and had cultivated a thriving engineering program and a world-class medical school. In the third volume of the university's history, James Greenlee illuminates the core ideas, driving ambitions, and occasionally sharp conflicts that marked this startling transition. Greenlee offers a tightly focused study of the planning, people, and events that gave McMaster its distinctive and bold personality. At the heart of these developments stood President Harry Thode, whose master plan forged a research-intensive institution of medium size, but one capable of surpassing the largest institutions in carefully selected fields. Despite dramatic ups and downs, the remarkable persistence of this model is the key to understanding modern McMaster. For readers interested in the problems of mass education in a democratic age, the origins of revolutionary approaches to medical training, or the tangled relations among a university, its community, and the province, this volume, like the McMaster leaders it follows, has a story to tell.

The Marriage Bargain
The Marriage Bargain

Author: Michelle McMaster

Publisher: Leisure Books

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780843947502

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A bold new author has crafted a Regency tale rife with romantic tension. Escaping an evil guardian and a murder charge, a golden-curled beauty hides in a rubbish heap, clad only in a nightgown. She is rescued and cared for by a devastatingly gorgeous viscount.

Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature Vol 2
Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature Vol 2

Author: R. Reginald

Publisher: Wildside Press LLC

Published: 2010-09-01

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 0941028771

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Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, A Checklist, 1700-1974, Volume Two of Two, contains Contemporary Science Fiction Authors II.

Essays on the Early History of Plant Pathology and Mycology in Canada
Essays on the Early History of Plant Pathology and Mycology in Canada

Author: Ralph Howard Estey

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 9780773511354

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Based on exhaustive research and interviews, this is the first referenced history of mycology and plant pathology in Canada. It will be of specific interest to plant breeders and pathologists, mycologists, entomologists, horticulturists, students of the sciences, and historians.

Long Eclipse
Long Eclipse

Author: Catherine Gidney

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2004-11-09

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0773572325

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Taking a social and cultural history approach, Gidney argues that for much of the twentieth century a liberal Protestant establishment imparted its own particular vision of moral and intellectual purpose to denominational and non-denominational campuses alike. Examining administrators' pronouncements, the moral regulation of campus life, and student religious clubs, she demonstrates that Protestant ideals and values were successfully challenged only in the post-World War II period when a number of factors, including a loosening of social mores, a more religiously diverse student body, and the ascent of the multiversity finally eroded Protestant hegemony. Only in the late 1960s, however, can one begin to speak of a university whose public voice was predominantly secular and where the voice of liberal Protestantism had been reduced to one among many.

The Works of Graham Greene, Volume 2
The Works of Graham Greene, Volume 2

Author: Mike Hill

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2015-10-22

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 147252778X

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Over a 60-year career, Graham Greene was a prolific writer. While his published works established him as one of the great writers of the twentieth century, much of his writing was never to see the light of day and has been gathered together in a number of archives across the UK, Ireland, USA and Canada The second volume of The Works of Graham Greene is a comprehensive guide to the archives of Greene's writing. The book details archival holdings of unpublished novels, short stories, plays, film scripts, journals, poetry, fragments of writing, and letters, as well as manuscripts and typescripts of published works. Analysing and contextualising the unpublished work, the book is fully cross-referenced throughout and includes a substantial index as well as practical guidance for students, scholars and researchers on accessing and making the most of each of the archives.

Harmonic Analysis, Partial Differential Equations, Banach Spaces, and Operator Theory (Volume 2)
Harmonic Analysis, Partial Differential Equations, Banach Spaces, and Operator Theory (Volume 2)

Author: María Cristina Pereyra

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-07-10

Total Pages: 469

ISBN-13: 3319515934

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This book is the second of a two volume series. Covering a range of subjects from operator theory and classical harmonic analysis to Banach space theory, this book features fully-refereed, high-quality papers exploring new results and trends in weighted norm inequalities, Schur-Agler class functions, complex analysis, dynamical systems, and dyadic harmonic analysis. Graduate students and researchers in analysis will find inspiration in the articles collected in this volume, which emphasize the remarkable connections between harmonic analysis and operator theory. A survey of the two weight problem for the Hilbert transform and an expository article on the Clark model to the case of non-singular measures and applications to the study of rank-one perturbations are included. The material for this volume is based on the 13th New Mexico Analysis Seminar held at the University of New Mexico, April 3-4, 2014 and on several special sections of the Western Spring Sectional Meeting at the University of New Mexico, April 4-6,2014. During the event, participants honored the memory of Cora Sadosky—a great mathematician who recently passed away and who made significant contributions to the field of harmonic analysis. Cora was an exceptional scientist and human being. She was a world expert in harmonic analysis and operator theory, publishing over fifty-five research papers and authoring a major textbook in the field. Participants of the conference include new and senior researchers, recent doctorates as well as leading experts in the area.