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Ernest Fisk at AWA, 1913-44
No full textIntroducing Sir Ernest Fisk to an Australian audience in 1948, the president of the local branch of the Institute of Radio Engineers, Ray Allsop, said, 'Sir Ernest is steeped in the pioneer ing history of wireless in Australia - I believe I would be more to the point if I put it this way: the pioneering history of wireless in Australia is steeped in Sir Ernest'. Fisk by then was almost half-way through the seven years he spent at the end of his career as managing director of Electric and Musical Industries in London. EMI was a much bigger and more global company than AWA, but it was at AWA that Fisk made his reputatjon. He was managing director from 1916 and chairman as well from 1932
Fisk University Honors, circa 1970
No full textIn this undated audio recording, an unidentified representative of Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, addresses a group of unidentified people on the topic of the Fisk University Honors Program. The speaker mentions that Dr. Vivian Wilson Henderson was on the committee that set the program up. He argues that the Honors Program needs to be particularly thoughtful about the choice of director, but that it is even more important to have a strong committee so that the program does not become a one man operation. The speaker also insists that it is better to separate the honors students from other students at the university
Fisk Named Sun Belt Golfer of the Week
No full textFisk Named Sun Belt Golfer of the Week He posted two wins and climbed to seventh in the national ranking
Fisk Named Sun Belt Men’s Golf Freshman of the Year
No full textFisk Named Sun Belt Men’s Golf Freshman of the Year He placed in the top-10 four times this seaso
Thomas Corwin Steward
No full textThomas C. Steward (soldier, teacher, builder) was born August 10, 1839 in Windham, Ohio and died in December of 1902 in Fulton, New York. He was a former Union soldier that worked for the American Missionary Association from 1868 to 1876. He began his work in 1868 at Marion, Alabama eventually being elected to represent the area in the Alabama state legislature during Reconstruction. During his time in Marion, he was in charge of the AMA there assisting with the building of Lincoln Normal School, the forerunner of Alabama State University. He spent his time teaching the newly freedmen how to read and write. After five years, he was reassigned to Nashville to the campus of Fisk College. There he built Jubilee Hall before being sent to Washington D.C. to work on projects there. He died December 19, 1902 after suffering injuries in a rail road accident. He and his wife had five children
1867-1872 Principal, Thomas Corwin Steward
No full textThomas C. Steward (soldier, teacher, builder) was born August 10, 1839 in Windham, Ohio and died in December of 1902 in Fulton, New York. He was a former Union soldier that worked for the American Missionary Association from 1868 to 1876. He began his work in 1868 at Marion, Alabama eventually being elected to represent the area in the Alabama state legislature during Reconstruction. During his time in Marion, he was in charge of the AMA there assisting with the building of Lincoln Normal School, the forerunner of Alabama State University. He spent his time teaching the newly freedmen how to read and write. After five years, he was reassigned to Nashville to the campus of Fisk College. There he built Jubilee Hall before being sent to Washington D.C. to work on projects there. He died December 19, 1902 after suffering injuries in a rail road accident. He and his wife had five children
Letter from Theophilus Fisk to Alden Partridge, 24 January 1840.
No full textIs pleased Partridge is considering opening an academy in Portsmouth and hopes he can visit in April; would Partridge speak to the law makers in Washington on militia reform?Transcription by Raymond Bouchard. Transcriptions may be subject to error
Protecting Animals 36: Author Witi Ihimaera
No full textIn this very special episode of Knowing Animals I am joined by beloved New Zealand author Witi Ihimaera. Witi has written many books featuring nonhuman animals. He offers us a non-colonial lens through which to think about the human/nonhuman relationship
Nature and Necessity
No full textNature and Necessity: An Essay in Physical Ontology presents genuinely new solutions to some salient problems in metaphysics. Fisk provides a new argument, based on the notion of conditional probability, for the claim that induction presupposes necessary connections. After devising an ontology of physical individuals to provide an objective basis for necessary connections, he uses this ontology to solve problems about relations, action, time, capacities, and events
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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