THE DONS: MENTORS, ECCECNTRICS AND GENIUSES
Written by Noel Annan
Published by Harper Collins
in 1999
ISBN: 0002570742
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THE DONS: MENTORS, ECCECNTRICS AND GENIUSES
Written by Noel Annan.
Stock no. 1330813
1st.
1999.
Hardback.
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. ISBN: 0002570742. Minimal shelf wear to spine. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Price-cut wrapper is sunned to spine and edges of front panel.
Front cover
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