I received our monthly newsletter from my college at Oxford today. Poking around the website I found the following description of the coat of arms that was approved after I had graduated. St. Cross, located on St. Giles, just down from the Eagle and Child and right next to the […]
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We are hosting our Big 10 colleagues in honors education today. Given this event, I thought I would I would repost from my SHC PSU blog this entry from last year. I will write more later since we are addressing the difficult challenge of admissions process and I think many […]
RealLife by Greg Dean. A great strip, for those who enjoy webcomics and don’t know his work, by all means bookmark it now! (BTW I forgot to hand out my evaluation forms to my students…)
Dr. Jim West has posted the 29th BS Carnival. In spite of my lack of posts these past two weeks he was kind enough to link to a couple of my posts. Thanks for all the hard work and a great Carnival Jim!
I am not saying that the student doesn’t have the academic freedom to do a project such as this (although the more I ruminate the more I might change my mind about that). What I am saying is that I believer her project crosses a number of boundaries, none of […]
As others have reported a giant has passed from this land. The NYTimes reports this morning. Krister Stendahl, 86, Ecumenical Bishop, Is Dead – New York Times Krister Stendahl, a former dean of the Harvard Divinity School and a bishop in Sweden whose scholarship opened new ways of interpreting the […]
I am part of a group of local amateur photographers who have recently formed a Flickr group. Each weekend we have a different “photo walk” to take. This weekend we were to look for old/antique/not new things. Well, I didn’t get much chance to walk outside of my office, so […]
I came across this article today. I commented earlier on an interview with Bruce in the Chronicle of Higher Education about the same book. Having not yet read the book, my questions remain… Q&A with: Bard College’s Bruce Chilton | PoughkeepsieJournal.com | Poughkeepsie Journal Q&A with: Bard College’s Bruce Chilton […]
I just received a note from Finnish colleague Hanne vaon Weissenberg promoting Helsinki’s Summer School (“Thinking Allowed,” but apparently not mandatory? 😉 ) course on the Dead Sea Scrolls. The full description can be found here, but the key elements are these: ORGANISER: The University of Helsinki , Department of […]
I have not seen the news elsewhere but Jim is reporting the passing of a giant. I remember very well when I was still an undergraduate and Doug Gropp loaned me his copy of Freedman and Cross’ Early Hebrew Orthography: A Study of the Epigraphic Evidence. His work will continue […]