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Tenure of Office under the Constitution

Tenure of Office under the Constitution

Tenure of Office under the Constitution: A Study in Law and Public Policy

Tenure of Office under the Constitution: A Study in Law and Public Policy

Tenure of Office under the Constitution

Tenure of Office under the Constitution

Tenure of Office under the Constitution

Tenure of Office under the Constitution

University and Educational Intelligence

BIRMINGHAM.—The annual meeting of the Court of Governors of the University is to be held on Feb. 27, and the reports of the Vice-Chancellor and the Council, which are to be presented to the Court, have been issued. The Vice-Chancellor, Sir Charles Grant Robertson, reviews the changes which have occurred during the ten years of his tenure of office and is able to report much progress. The income and expenditure have greatly increased, and it is satisfactory to note that the largest item of expenditure is that of salaries. Nine members of the non-professorial staff have been promoted to Grade I. with a minimum salary of £600 a year—a reform long overdue. The number of students continues to increase slowly.

Editorial Notes

Editorial NotesPublished Online:29 May 2014https://doi.org/10.1259/0007-1285-2-23-499SectionsPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail AboutAbstractThe first meeting of the Council of the Institute for the present session was held on Thursday, October 17, 1929, under the chairmanship of the President, Mr. Thurstan Holland.Dr. G. W. C. Kaye and Mr. Geoffrey Pearce were unanimously elected Honorary Members in recognition of their great services to the Institute. We tender them our heartiest congratulations on the honour conferred upon them.Dr. Kaye's work during his year as President is well known to us all, and the flourishing condition of the Institute at the termination of his tenure of office is sufficient evidence of the success he attained. Thirty-nine new members were elected during the session. New branches are in the process of formation in the Colonies, and should prove promising offsprings of the parent body. During the year important changes in the staff of the Institute were effected, resulting in an all-round improvement. Next article FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Volume 2, Issue 23November 1929Pages: 499-550 © The British Institute of Radiology History Published onlineMay 29,2014 Metrics Download PDF

The Health Officer's Tenure of Office

The Health Officer's Tenure of Office

Study and Research in Physics1

IT is little more than fifty years since special laboratories began to be built, generally on a small and modest scale, for study and research in experimental physics and for the practical instruction of students. During this period, physics in Bristol has been represented by three professors, first for a short time, by the late Prof. Sylvanus Thompson, whose contributions to science will long be remembered, then by Prof. Chattock, who is held in high esteem by all his students for the efficiency and inspiration of his teaching. On his retirement he was succeeded by his pupil, Prof. Tyndall, and I am sure that it is not entirely an accident that this splendid laboratory, which we open officially to-day, had its inception and completion during his tenure of office.

Disbarment. Defenses. Effect on Judicial Tenure of Office

Disbarment. Defenses. Effect on Judicial Tenure of Office

A Program for Improving the Water Service in Chicago

In the history of all work of large proportions I presume there is also written the history of the lives of men who have built those works. Three such men have stood out prominently in the history of the water works of Chicago. Honorable DeWitt С. Cregier devoted a long life to the service of the city. Beginning as a steam engineer, he advanced to the office of Commissioner of Public Works and later was elected to the office of Chief Executive of the city. Mr. E. S. Chesbrough was another outstanding figure. A pioneer in water works engineering, he proposed and completed Chicago's first subaqueous water supply tunnel. The last of the three was Mr. John Ericson, late City Engineer, who passed away on April 16th of this year. Arriving from Sweden in his early twenties, he entered the service shortly thereafter. In 1884, when he first took up his work in the field of water works engineering, this city had an area of 36 square miles and a population of 641,000. When he died the boundaries served by the system enclosed an area of 250 square miles and supplied water to a population of 3f million people. The plant had increased tenfold during his tenure of office. High tribute is paid to Mr. Ericson as a man and to his integrity as an engineer.

Tenure of Office and the Removal Power under the Constitution

Tenure of Office and the Removal Power under the Constitution

Obituary notices of fellows deceased

Sir Archibald Geikie was elected a Fellow of the Society in 1865, at the age of 29 years, and at the time of his death, in 1924, he was the senior Fellow, and hence the “father” of the Society. Throughout this long series of years he was devotedly attached to the Society and most anxious to promote its welfare and further its activities in all possible directions, and the Royal Society is much indebted to him for the services he rendered to it during the periods he acted as one of its officers. He served on the Council first from 1885 to 1887, and was Foreign Secretary from 1889 to 1893. In 1903 he was elected Secretary on the biological side in succession to Sir Michael Foster, and had as colleague on the physical side his friend Sir Joseph Larmor, the presidents during his term of office as Secretary being, Sir William Huggins and Lord Rayleigh. During the later years of the nineteenth century the work of the Society had undergone considerable expansion both on the physical and on the biological side. Thus, the part played by the Society in such undertakings as the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, the Association of Academies, the National Physical Laboratory, and the investigations into certain tropical diseases, considerably increased not only the range of the activities of the Society, but also added considerably to the work of the Officers, Fellows, and staff. Geikie, throughout his tenure of office, took the greatest interest in the work of the Society as a whole, and his outlook was always a wide one, although as Secretary his activities were mainly concentrated on the biological side. One of the most characteristic features of his work was the interest he took in all biological questions, botanical, zoological, and physiological. He never confined his interest to the more special branches of knowledge that he had made his own.

PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY

Foreign Language Study met at Princeton on December 31st. All the members of the Committee were present, with the exception of Professor E. H. Wilkins, who felt obliged to resign from the Committee. His resignation was accepted with keen regret and the selection of a successor referred to the Executive Committee. In a two days' session the Committee discussed the Preliminary Report of the Committee on Investigation, and adopted it with unimportant amendments. The Report limits the investigation in the main to the teaching and study of the modern foreign languages in the secondary schools and the corresponding grade of collegiate instruction, and defines the major purpose of the investigators as the formulation of a constructive program of recommendations for improvement at these levels of instruction. The work of the Investigation Committee will consist of: 1) The collection of statistical and other data; 2) An analysis of the objectives of modern foreign language teaching and the testing of these for their validity; 3) A survey of the training of teachers of the modern foreign languages; 4) Certain historical and similar studies. The statistical data, as has already been pointed out, will be secured through a second questionnaire to the secondary schools in the United States, asking for details as to enrollment; information as to organization, character, content, and sequence' of courses; the training and duties of teachers, and the legal and other provisions affecting their appointment and tenure of office. The objectives of modern foreign language study as proposed by the Committee, on the basis of an examination of the literature on the subject and information from many sources, are classified as four immediate objectives and sixteen ultimate objectives.

Astronomical Observations at Greenwich and the Cape

THE first impression on seeing the annual volume for 1921 of “Greenwich Observations”1 is its thinness in comparison with the volumes of two or three decades ago. It appears to be the least bulky in the last hundred years. This is due to a reduction accomplished during Sir Frank Dyson's tenure of office by the suppression of much of the detail of the observations, but enough is still given to show the data on which the tabulated observations depend.

University and Educational Intelligence

GLASGOW.—Prof. Andrew Gray has intimated his desire to retire from the chair of natural philosophy on September 30 next, on grounds of health. Prof. Gray has occupied the chair since 1899, when he succeeded Lord Kelvin. During his tenure of office the fine institute of Natural Philosophy, which was designed and erected under his direction, has been added to the numerous new scientific buildings of the University. Some 1100 students a year are accommodated in its spacious laboratories and classrooms.

Dr. William Carruthers, F.R.S

DR. WILLIAM CARRUTHERS, who died on June 2 at the age of ninety-two years, was a familiar figure in the botanical world in the latter half of the last century. He was born at Moffat, Dumfries, in 1830, and educated at Edinburgh with the view of entering the Presbyterian ministry, but decided in favour of a scientific career. In 1859 he was appointed assistant in the Department of Botany of the British Museum to J. J. Bennett, who had recently succeeded Robert Brown as Keeper of the department. In 1871 Dr. Carruthers followed Bennett in the Keepership, which he held until his retirement in 1895. His tenure of office was marked by a great development of the department. The removal of the natural history collections to the new museum in the Cromwell Road in 1881 afforded a unique opportunity for improvement and expansion; and the arrangement and equipment of the suite of galleries assigned to botany, including the great herbarium and the excellent botanical library, approached through a fine exhibition gallery, are a lasting memorial of Dr. Carruthers's knowledge and skill. The development of the Cryptogamic Herbarium, with the help of Mr. George Murray, and of the special British Herbarium, based on the collection of his chief assistant, Dr. Henry Trimen, the arrangement of the valuable collection of original botanical drawings and manuscripts, the planning of the exhibition galleries, and the initiation of a series of botanical monographs, such as Crombie's Enumeration of the British Lichens and Lister's Monograph of the Mycelozoa, may be recalled as incidents of his tenure. A fuller appreciation of these activities by another colleague, Mr. James Britten, will be found in the Journal of Botany, 1895.

University and Educational Intelligence

CAMBRIDGE.—Sir J. J. Thomson, Master of Trinity, who recently resigned the Cavendish professorship of experimental physics, has been elected into the newly established professorship of physics. This professorship is without stipend, and will terminate with the tenure of office of the first professor unless the University determines otherwise.

The British Science Guild

THE eleventh annual meeting of the British Science Guild was held at the Mansion House on Monday, April 30, when the Lord Mayor presided. After the meeting had been welcomed by the Lord Mayor, Sir William Mather, president of the Guild, opened the proceedings, alluding briefly to the part taken by the British Science Guild in the encouragement of applied science during his tenure of office. He explained also the proposal of the committee of the Ramsay Memorial Fund to raise 100,000l. with the view of founding a chemical laboratory and a series of fellowships in memory of Sir William Ramsay at University College, London. In conclusion, Sir William Mather announced his retirement and the nomination of Lord Sydenham to succeed him as president of the Guild.

Academic Freedom and Tenure of Office

Academic Freedom and Tenure of Office

Tenure of Office

Tenure of Office