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THE DONS: MENTORS, ECCECNTRICS AND GENIUSES

by Noel Annan

Published by Harper Collins. 1st. 1999

Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. Why the dons mattered and their role in shaping higher education. Black boards, silver title to spine. 357 pages (including index). B/w plates.

Minimal shelf wear to spine. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Price-cut wrapper is sunned to spine and edges of front panel.

ISBN: 0002570742
Stock no. 1330813

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Contents

  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • I: The Dons Create an Intellectual Aristocracy
  • II: The Genesis of the Modern Don - William Buckland
  • III: The Charismatic Don - John Henry Newman
  • IV: Benjamin Jowett and the Balliol Tradition
  • V: The Don as Scholar - Frederic Maitland
  • VI: The Pastoral Don - The Ethos of King's
  • VII: The Trinity Scientists - JJ And Rutherford
  • VIII: The Don as Wit - Maurice Bowra
  • IX: The Don as Performer - George Rylands
  • X: The Don as Dilettante - John Sparrow
  • XI: The Don as Magus - Isaiah Berlin
  • XII: Womens Dons in Cambridge
  • XIII: The Don as Administrator
  • XIV: 'Down with Dons'
  • Annexe: The Intellectual Aristocracy
  • Index

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