State Counsellor Research Articles

Reports by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard on the organization of scientific teaching and research

These reports originated in the family of Armand Du Mesnil, who served as Officier Instruction Publique in the Ministry Instruction Publique from 1866, and later (1878) became Councillor of State and Director of Higher Education in France. They passed, together with clerk’s copies, to Du Mesnil’s niece who married Eugene Fromentin, the painter and novelist. Their daughter married Alexander Billotte. The Billottes’ daughter married my wife’s Norwegian uncle, to whose son, Erik Dahl of La Rochelle, I am indebted for photocopies. Louis Pasteur (1822—1895) was elected a Foreign Member of the Society in 1869, and Claude Bernard (1813—1878) in 1864. The reports arose out o f the conference o f scientists and administrators summoned by N apoleon III at the Tuileries on 16 M arch 1868, as a result o f the concern expressed by Pasteur over the condition o f French science at the time. Pasteur, Bernard, Deville and M ilne-Edwards were present as scientists, and Rouher, Vaillant and D uruy (Minister o f Public Instruction) represented the Government. Pasteur’s report, dated nine days after the conference, presumably represents the opinions he presented, and is addressed to the D irecteur de L ’Enseignement Supérieur, a post subsequently held by D u Mesnil; Bernard’s is addressed to Duruy.

State Supervisors and Counselor Educators: Can We Get Our Act Together?

State Supervisors and Counselor Educators: Can We Get Our Act Together?

An accountability model for counselors

A sound counselor accountability system would collate counselor accomplishments with costs. Better decisions could then be made about effective methods, staffing, student needs, and training. The system would define the domain of counselor responsibilities, use student behavior changes as evidence of counselor accomplishments, state counselor activities as costs, promote self‐improvement, permit reports of failures and unknown outcomes, be designed by users, and be subject to revision. An illustrative accountability report shows how the cost, but not the value, of an outcome can be estimated. Experimentation is needed in order to answer the practical implementation problems of the system.

The Martignoni Affair: How a Swiss politician deceived Mussolini

The material for this article is drawn from eleven documents in the U.S. National Archives 'World War II collection of seized enemy records: Personal papers of Benito Mussolini ...' T586, roll 425. My attention was drawn to them by the work of the French historian Max Gallo on the subsidies paid by Italy to French and British fascists. Angiolo Martignoni was a conservative Councillor of State in the Italian-speaking Swiss canton of the Ticino from 1927, when he was 37 years old, to 1947. He died in 1952. Obituary notices, whatever the complexion of the paper, paid tribute to his patriotism and to his work as minister for agriculture. Was he in fact a patriot or a potential Quisling? In April 1930 he was received by Mussolini at the Palazzo Venezia. Shortly after, he asked the Duce for 150,000 francs to promote the development of fascism in the Ticino, and by the end of the year he had received subsidies totalling 80,000 francs.

Using Simulation Techniques in the Counseling Practicum

To help meet the need to educate school counselors in the broader aspects of their work, the application of simulation techniques is suggested. A rationale is provided with discussion centering on the following points: (a) simulation offers an opportunity to provide specific training emphases, and (b) simulation offers a way of providing a wide range of counseling and guidance experiences not easily obtainable under regular practicum conditions. Specific examples of simulation are described, including a case study, a PTA speech, a teachers' meeting, a counselor's day, and a school board presentation. Benefits for counselor education programs which can be realized from simulation experiences also are discussed. Rather than choosing actors to play roles it is suggested that practicing counselors, state department personnel, doctoral students, and counselor education faculty should participate in simulation activities. As role players, they will gain an appreciation of current trends in the education of counselors.

Sidney and Languet

nOSTERITY HAS tended minimize Sir Philip Sidney's political r aspirations. Perhaps under influence of what is sometimes called Sidney Myth, it has preferred virtuous Astrophel the great counsellor of state' A new edition of his correspondence will undoubtedly indicate where his biography should be supplemented and stress relevance of surviving Languet letters. Meanwhile, some preliminary conclusions can be drawn from a seventeenth-century collection of Languet papers in Bibliotheque Nationale. It includes eight unpublished letters, five of which relate Philip Sidney's Grand Tour (1572-1575), three that of his brother Robert (I578-I587).1 It is surely remarkable that after his escape from Paris in 1572 Sidney should associate with few people whom he had not been introduced by Hubert Languet. His best friend and traveling-companion in Italy, Philip Louis, count of Hanau and Miinzenberg, was no exception. Two of Languet's letters German count, written from Vienna on January 15 and February 9, 7574, and very similar in tone his Sidney letters, emphasize this.2 Not surprisingly, Languet is extremely pleased have foreseen young men's friendship. He points out how alike his two Philips are in age, intellect, and inclination, and for three whole pages he encourages them work and travel together and build up a lasting relationship. The January letter also includes his wish that together they may travel from Vienna to Sarmata [i.e., Poland] there salute Vistulan nymphs and see whether lily of France3 takes root in Polish soil-for it is a thing of which men will speak for some time come. For nearly two years Languet's English protege was constant companion of this Protestant nobleman who, like himself, had been in Paris at time of Massacre. An orphan since IS6i but too young succeed his father, he resided with Sidney in Padua while an

PLANNED ECONOMY IN YUGOSLAVIA

Annals of Public and Cooperative EconomicsVolume 30, Issue 2-3 p. 125-142 PLANNED ECONOMY IN YUGOSLAVIA Dr. Jakov SIROTKOVIC, Dr. Jakov SIROTKOVIC Counsellor of State at the Federal Planning OfficeSearch for more papers by this author Dr. Jakov SIROTKOVIC, Dr. Jakov SIROTKOVIC Counsellor of State at the Federal Planning OfficeSearch for more papers by this author First published: April 1959 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8292.1959.tb01641.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume30, Issue2-3April 1959Pages 125-142 RelatedInformation

PLANNED ECONOMY IN YUGOSLAVIA

Annals of Public and Cooperative EconomicsVolume 30, Issue 2-3 p. 123-124 PLANNED ECONOMY IN YUGOSLAVIA Dr. Jakov SIROTKOVIC, Dr. Jakov SIROTKOVIC Counsellor of State at the Federal Planning OfficeSearch for more papers by this author Dr. Jakov SIROTKOVIC, Dr. Jakov SIROTKOVIC Counsellor of State at the Federal Planning OfficeSearch for more papers by this author First published: April 1959 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8292.1959.tb01640.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume30, Issue2-3April 1959Pages 123-124 RelatedInformation

Frances Grevill West Peirsey Mathews

In an earlier number of the William and Mary Quarterly Magazine, the author of this article showed that Samuel Mathews, Senior, not Governor of Virginia as universally supposed; but that Governor Mathews Samuel, Junior.1 Now, comes another Mathews upheaval: Frances, wife of Samuel Mathews, Senior, not Frances Hinton, as has been generally believed; but she Frances Grevill. Records a plenty, there are, which prove that said Frances the wife first, of Captain Nathaniel West, Esquire, son of the second Lord Delaware and brother of Thomas, third Lord Delaware and Governor of Virginia; secondly, of Abraham Peirsey, Esquire, a Councillor of State of Virginia; and lastly, of Captain Samuel Mathews, also a Councillor of State, and later, as Colonel Mathews, Virginia's Agent to England. It seems pretty well established, too, that Frances the mother of Mathews' two sons, Samuel and Francis. The supposition that she Frances Hinton founded upon the brochure published in London in 1649 which, among other things concerning the worthiness of Captain Samuel Mathews, stated that married the Daughter of Sir Thomas Hinton. As this laconic affirmation indicates that said Daughter Mathews' only wife, she has been generally considered as such. One writer ventured the opinion that Mathews was married at least twice, his wife being the widow of Abraham Peirsey, died about 1638; and Samuel, Junior, therefore the son of the first wife. This assumption based merely upon the misconception as to the date of Peirsey's death. The records prove that he died about the middle of January, 1627/8; and that his will proved at the February, 1627/8 Court, at Jamestown, by Grevill Pooley, one of the overseers thereto.2 If the statement as to the Mathews-Hinton marriage is correct, it establishes as a fact that Mathews married at least twice. The purpose of this contribution is to show that Frances preceded Miss Hinton as his wife; and that she Frances Grevill. Frances made executor of Abraham Peirsey's will, which dated March 1, 1627/7; and, as stated, proved in Virginia, February, 1627/8. Owing to a variety of complications, his estate not finally settled until 1639. In the meantime, Frances had died and Peirsey's younger daughter, Mary, then wife of Captain Thomas Hill, appointed administrator in the place of Frances.2a Since the 1649 publication mentions but the one wife, Miss Hinton, presumably she the last wife and probably living at that time. Sir Thomas H-inton living in Virginia in 1635, and a member of the Council. He among those who opposed Governor Harvey;

Carsten Niebuhr, 1733–1815

ON March 17 occurs the bicentenary of the birth of the famous German traveller, Carsten Niebuhr, who was the only survivor of the Danish expedition sent to examine the monuments and antiquities of the Orient in 1761. Born in the village of Lüding-worth in the Duchy of Lauenberg, Niebuhr appeared destined to follow in the footsteps of his forbears, who were small landowners. On coming of age, however, he spent his small patrimony in obtaining instruction in mathematics and by 1757 was a student at Göttingen, where he was afterwards taught the new methods of determining longitude by lunar observations by Tobias Mayer himself. Niebuhr made great use of this method in his travels in the East which occupied the years 1761–1767. After his return to Europe he commenced the publication of the account of his travels, married and, being given an official post in the town of Meldorf in Holstein, settled there. He was made a Danish councillor of State, a knight of the Daneborg and in 1802 was elected an associate of l'Institut de France. Towards the end of his life he became blind and lame. He died at Meldorf on April 26, 1815. His son, Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1776–1831), was a distinguished historian and archaeologist and his grandson, Marcus von Niebuhr (1817–1860), an eminent Prussian official.

Civil Service in Soviet Russia

Before the Revolution. Peter the Great, among other attempts to westernize Russia, introduced in 1722 a “table of ranks” consisting of fourteen classes of civil officials (chinovniki) ranging from mere filing clerks to privy councillors. Advancement in civil service also brought with it advancement in social status, but few persons of plebeian origin could reach the higher ranks. Officials attaining the rank of “actual state councillor” automatically became hereditary nobles. The old nobility resented this “corruption of blood;” but with the growth of the Empire, the nobles alone were not sufficiently numerous to render all the civil service necessary for the administration of the state. The admission of non-nobles into civil service was, however, rigidly restricted, not so much by educational qualifications as by stipulations that sons of officials, military officers, orthodox clergy, merchants of the first class, and members of the learned professions should be given preference. Others were admitted provided they were graduated from middle and higher educational institutions with honor (gold medal). Jews were in general excluded, exceptions being made in the case of the medical service.

The League of Nations’ Report on the Unification of the Law of Negotiable Instruments

The Conference of Financial Experts held at Brussels in September,1920, recommended to the League of Nations as part of its scheme of financial rehabilitation “ that the activities of the League might usefully be directed towards promoting certain reforms,” the first of which was that progress should be made toward the unification of the laws of the various countries relating to bills of exchange and bills of lading. The International Chamber of Commerce and other trade bodies have likewise strongly supported a resumption of initiative in this direction, which was interrupted by the war. As a result, the Economic Committee of the League of Nations, acting in cooperation with the Government of the Netherlands,and with the approval of the Council and the Assembly, appointed four legal experts to report their opinions upon the attitude now prevailing in the various countries of the world toward the work of the two Hague Conferences on Negotiable Instruments and also as to whether further action toward unification was likely to meet with practical success. The following highly qualified experts were charged with the task: Sir Mackenzie Chalmers, well known as the author of the English Bills of Exchange Act of 1882; the late Professor David Josephus Jitta, formerly Councillor of State of the Netherlands; Professor Franz Klein, of Austria, and Professor Lyon-Caen, the well-known French authority on commercial law.

Brief Notes on the German Contributors

AUFHXUSER, S., of Berlin. Member of the National Economic Council. Was engaged in various commercial and industrial establishments, and did great deal of work in the trade and auxiliary societies. Now business manager of the association of technical and office employes and of the employment society of the workmen's union of free laborers, which he founded and which represents union of all free labor organizations. The free labor organizations have especially fought for the Betriebsrdte (workmen's councils) and supported the general strike against Kapp in March, 1920. BONN, M. J. Ph.D., of Berlin. Until recently, director of the College of Commerce and at the same time professor in the University of Munich. Now professor in the College of Commerce in Berlin. Author of various standard works concerning Ireland. Well-known in America, having been connected with the University of California in 1914-16, and also with the Universities of Wisconsin and Cornell. He was member of the German Delegations at Versailles and at Spa. BRUCK, W. F., Ph.D., of Giessen. Professor of Political Economy in the University of Giessen. Recognized authority on the cotton and textile industry. Was sent in 1911-13 as a fiber expert by the German government on an expedition of study to Java, the Philippines, British India, and German East Africa. FEHLINGER, HANS, of Munich. By trade, bookbinder. An author, and collaborator in numerous trade and industrial periodicals. Before the war he was connected with American industrial organizations and labored for the Union of International Industrial Relations. HERBIG, ERNST, Bergrat, of Essen. Doctor of Jurisprudence and Doctor of Philosophy. Member of the Board of Directors of the Rhenish-Westphalian Coal Syndicate, one of the largest coalmining companies in Germany. Visited the United States in 1911 for the purpose of studying the mining industry of the state of Washington. HORTENS, ALFONS, of Berlin. Mining assessor, recently elected State Commissioner for examination of war companies and member of the City Building Council in Greater Berlin. Twenty years ago he spent some time in America studying conditions in the Joplin District. Engaged for six years in the Prussian mining industry. Supervised the construction of the electric power plant for the government mines on the Saar River. Under his direction, as first responsible director, furnaces, steel mills, cement mills and workmen's colonies in Hagendingen were developed during this period. During the war he directed the operation of the Brieg iron mining district occupied by the Germans, and also of the requisitioned de Wendel furnaces and steel mills. After the Revolution, he wrote an article on Socialization and Reconstruction, which outlined totally new suggestions for socialization in German economic life and attracted considerable attention among the laboring population. In broad outline, the article herein contains the fundamental suggestions made in the former article. HUBER, DR., of Munich. Administrative official in Bavaria, in foreign administrative service 1896-1900 and 1906-17; ad interim, Department of the Interior as municipal and medical director. Honorary doctorate, University of Munich. Acting plenipotentiary from Bavaria in the Imperial Council, Ministerial Director and Bavarian State Counsellor, October, 1916April, 1920. Secretary of State in the National Administration of Food and Agriculture, April, 1920.-. LAPORTE, DR. WALTHER DE. Assistant in the seminar of politics and insurance,

Œuvres scientifiques de L Lorenz

THIS concluding fraction of the papers of Lorenz is prefaced with an interesting critical account of his life and works. We see the young Lorenz largely self-taught, preferring to work out problems independently, although the result was usually to find out that they had been solved long before. It was in this laborious way that his mathematical gifts were developed. Owing to indifference to the usual courses of instruction, there was little sympathy between him and his teachers, and he left the Copenhagen Polytechnic without distinction. Be that as it may, by the year 1887 he had become a Councillor of State, and had received the honorary degree of Doctor of Philosophy of the University of Upsala.

Extract of a letter from the Councillor of State, C C Rafn, Secretary of The Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries, Copenhagen, to J M Mitchell

A brief letter from C C Rafn about his research in Europe and the preparation of his work on a Danish Runic stone found at Linding.
 
 Meeting notes for May 14, 1855 are appended.

XLV. Translation of a letter from M. de Stehlin, Counsellor of State to her Imperial Majesty of Russia, to Dr. Maty, with a specimen of native iron

As a testimony of my attachment to the Royal Society, and as the first tribute I owe her, I have the honour to transmit herewith two real novelties, which I think worthy of her notice.