Queen's University of Belfast, 1951 - 1983
Scope and Contents
Approximately 80 pamphlets containing lectures from various faculties of the Queen’s University of Belfast. Lecture dates reflect when the talk was delivered, and do not necessarily match the publication year.
Inaugural Lectures (1957-1983)
1957: Hermann E. Hinderks, “Goethe’s Faust and the Crisis of Modern Man”
1960: John Pemberton, “Disease in an Affluent Society”
1960: Peter H. Butter, “English in India”
1960: George Seth, “The Ecology of Psychology”
1961: Howard Warrender, “The Study of Politics”
1961: R.B. Welbourn, “Science and Surgery”
1963: R.D.D. Gibson, “La Mésentente Cordiale”
1963: R.D. Collison Black, “Economic Fashions”
1963: B. Crossland, “Mechanical Engineering: Forerunner of Scientific Thought”
1964: J.R. Parkinson, “Growth and What the Businessman Thinks About It”
1964: George Huxley, “The Interpretation of Greek and Babylonian Astronomy”
1964: Arthur Terry, “Two Views of Poetry”
1964: J.H.M. Pinkerton, “Braggarts Unborn: A Consideration of Life Before Birth”
1964: T.M. Charlton, “Civil Engineering Science in the Twentieth Century”
1965: Alexander Potter, “The Function of the Architect”
1965: Ian C. Roddie, “An Excellent Medical School”
1965: James Scott, “The Making of Mankind”
1965: F.J. Wallace, “Thermodynamics: Bridge Between Science and Engineering”
1965: A.A. Wells, “‘Structural Art and Science’”
1965: A.R. Boothroyd, “Electronics: The Solid-State Era”
1965: Kathleen M.T. Atkinson, “Reflections on the Roman Rule of Law”
1966: E.H. Frost-Smith, “Cybernetics in Production Engineering: The Evolution of a Machine Tool”
1966: W.J. Harvey, “Poetic Vision in the World of Prose”
1966: W.O. Brown, “Agriculture in Our Industrialised Society: Chemistry and the nutrition of efficient farm animals”
1966: H.T. Barnwell, “The Tragic in French Tragedy”
1966: James Bates, “Economics, Efficiency and Management”
1966: W.A.S. Alldritt, “Pyorrhea”
1967: K.J. Ivin, “Chance and Design in the World of Polymers”
1967: J.C. Murdoch, “Intensive Production in Agriculture”
1967: L.A. Sheridan, “Legal Education in the Seventies”
1967: C. Dow, “Veterinary Science and the Farmer”
1967: Raymond Warren, “Song for St Cecilia’s Day”
1967: W.L. Twining, “Pericles and the Plumber”
1967: R.K. McKee, “Plant Disease Control in Modern Agriculture”
1968: P.G. Burke, “Particles and Resonances in Modern Physics”
1968: P.C. Elmes, “Therapeutics: Pills or Treatment”
1968: J.A. Faris, “Plato’s Theory of FOrms and Cantor’s Theory of Sets”
1968: H.B. Gilbody, “Atoms in Collision – Some Modern Aspects”
1968: E. Markland, “Fluids in Motion”
1968: J. Vallance-Owen, “Medical Practice, Teaching and Research”
1969: E.W. Simon, “Questions About Plants”
1969: Marcus Wheeler, “Russia – East or West?”
1969: J. Braidwood, “The Ulster Dialect Lexicon”
1970: T. Crowley, “Transcendence”
1972: John Blacking, “Man and Fellowman”
1972: G. Singh, “The Achievement of Eugenio Montale”
1976: K.D. Buchanan, “The Digestive Hormones”
1977: M.J. McGann, “Latin Poetry in Augustan Rome and Quattrocento Italy”
1977: A.E. Long, “Ubiquitous Concrete: A Civil Engineering Perspective”
1977: R.W. Stout, “The Years Condemn”
1977: R.L. G. McKie, “Planning from the Bottom Up”
1978: G.W. Furness, “The Farmer’s Share”
1978: John F. Fulton, “Teachers – made not born?”
1978: P.P. Benham, “Flight of Fancy”
1978: K. Brown, “The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals – 1978”
1978: Roy Wallis, “The Rebirth of the Gods? Reflections on the New Religions in the West”
1978: J.N. Swallow, “Out of the Mouth…”
1978: L.T. Threadgold, “A Bit of a Fluke”
1978: A. Jennings, “A Giant’s Stride in Engineering”
1978: D.W. Gooding, “Current Problems and Methods in the Textual Criticism of the Old Testament”
1979: Geoffrey Hornsey, “International Law – All at Sea”
1979: J.D.G. Evans, “Truth and Proof”
1979: Denis G. McDevitt, “A Spoonful of Sugar”
1979: E. Mary Smallwood, “From Pagan Protection to Christian Oppression”
1979: Thomas J. Harrison, “Anatomy at Belfast”
1980: S.A. Lewis, “Psychology Applied to Medicine – Old Wine in New Bottles”
1980: A.G. Kerr, “They Have Ears But They Hear Not”
1980: J.H. Elwood, “Medicine and the Community”
1980: William F.M. Wallace, “Science and Medicine”
1980: Tony Greenfield, “Computers and Health”
1980: F.J. Smith, “The Computer: Our Silicon Genie”
1981: William Thompson, “Denied a Child”
1981: Richard S.J. Clarke, “The Compleat Anaesthetist”
1981: C. Meban, “The Breath of Life”
1981: R.W. Perks, “Accounting as a University Subject”
1981: J.M. Bridges, “Tears, Sweat and Blood”
1982: S.J. Martin, “A New Pairs of Genes”
1983: J.H. Whyte, “Is Research on the North Ireland Problem Worth While?”
Miscellaneous Lectures (1951-1958)
1951: L.A. Bisson, “André Gide (1869-1951)”
1956: W.P.D. Wightman, “The Emergence of General Physiology”
1958: Desmond G. Neill, “The Unfinished Business of the Welfare State”
Dates
- 1951 - 1983
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Extent
From the Collection: 7.5 Cubic Feet (21 boxes)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Creator
- From the Collection: Scheetz, Nicholas B., 1952-2016 (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Georgetown University Manuscripts Repository
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37th and O Streets, N.W.
Washington DC 20057
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