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CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE THE PELICAN RECORD Vol. XLVII December 2011 CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE THE PELICAN RECORD Vol. XLVII December 2011 i The Pelican Record Editor: John Ma Deputy Editor: David Wilson Design and Printing: Lynx DPM Limited Published by Corpus Christi College, Oxford 2012 Website: http://www.ccc.ox.ac.uk Email: [email protected] The editors would like to thank David Leake, Rachel Pearson and Lorna Swadling. Front cover: Photograph of monument to John Rainolds in Corpus Chapel by Tim Soar. Back cover: Detail of a model of the College circa 1855. Photograph by Nicholas Read. ii The Pelican Record CONTENTS President’s Report ................................................................................... 3 Andrew Glyn, In His Own Words: “Politically Relevant Economics” Transcribed by Tim Ogg ............................................................................ 8 The Year’s Midnight Bernard O’Donoghue ................................................................................. 16 On Leaving CCC John Tasioulas ............................................................................................ 17 Kybald Twychen Joanna McCunn ......................................................................................... 22 An Interview with the Master of Works Sara Gordon ............................................................................................... 27 Beam Hall Valentine Cunningham .............................................................................. 35 Corpus and the King James Bible in 2011 Helen Moore ............................................................................................... 39 Min Arshama John Ma ...................................................................................................... 42 Worlds of Powers: The Bedrock of Reality for the Ancients Anna Marmodoro ....................................................................................... 44 Travel Reports Journey to Berlin, Patrick Wise Walsh ................................................ 46 Journey to “Stasiland”, Timothy Nunan ............................................ 50 Montpellier or Bust, Kamillah Ismail ................................................. 56 65, 33 and 500: A Personal View David Leake ................................................................................................ 60 Correspondence College Servants ...................................................................................... 62 Publications Publications by Fellows .......................................................................... 63 Publications by Corpuscles .................................................................... 63 Reviews .................................................................................................... 64 1 The Pelican Record Obituaries Ben Ruck Keene ................................................................................. 75 Peter Hodgson ................................................................................... 79 David Grahame-Smith ...................................................................... 82 Paddy Griffith .................................................................................... 89 Seymour Spencer ............................................................................... 90 The Record Chaplain’s Report .............................................................................. 92 The Library ......................................................................................... 94 Gifts to the Library, 1 August 2010–31 July 2011 .......................... 98 The Junior Common Room .............................................................. 109 The Middle Common Room ............................................................ 111 Chapel Choir ...................................................................................... 113 Clubs and Societies Men’s Rowing ................................................................................ 115 Football ............................................................................................ 117 Men’s Hockey ................................................................................ 117 Pool .................................................................................................. 118 Cricket ............................................................................................. 119 Badminton ...................................................................................... 120 The Owlets ..................................................................................... 120 String Orchestra ............................................................................. 122 Classics Society .............................................................................. 123 Corpus Christi Medieval Ball, 2010 ................................................ 126 The Fellows ........................................................................................ 128 Staff Changes ..................................................................................... 140 News of Corpuscles: Deaths ............................................................................................. 141 Updates ........................................................................................... 142 Scholarships and Prizes 2010–2011 ................................................. 143 Graduate Examination Results ....................................................... 145 Undergraduate Examination Results ............................................. 147 New Members of the College .......................................................... 155 Personal Information Form ................................................................. 159 2 The Pelican Record PRESIDENT’S REPORT THERE CAN BE no better starting-point for this review of the past year than the College’s contribution to the 400th anniversary of the King James Version of the Bible. It was John Rainolds, our seventh President, who – at the Hampton Court Conference in 1604 – proposed a new English translation of the Scriptures; the project once under way, his rooms in Corpus became the venue for a committee of translators working on the Books of the Prophets. It is fitting, then, that Corpus should have played a conspicuous role in several anniversary projects during 2011. Judith Maltby, the College chaplain and a church historian, contributed signally to James Naughtie’s series for Radio 4 at the turn of the year (atmospherically accompanied by the Chapel choir). During Hilary Term a number of visiting speakers lectured on the King James Bible’s historical, literary and cultural significance. The College won further praise for the acclaimed Bodleian summer exhibition, “Manifold Greatness: The Making of the King James Bible”. We lent unique materials from our archives for display at the Bodleian; College members made up half the curatorial team. Helen Moore, Chair of the Curatorial Committee, and Julian Reid, the College’s Archivist, co-edited the exhibition’s companion volume of essays. The exhibition travelled to the Folger Library in Washington DC in September, where the College held a launch event for Old Members. The anniversary of what many have come to call the Authorised Version has provided an occasion for celebration, but it has been no less important in providing a healthy perspective on the current concerns of the College and the wider University. Few periods in modern times have brought such uncertainty to English universities as the past twelve months. In October 2010 Lord Browne’s Review of Higher Education Funding and Student Finance was swiftly followed by the Comprehensive Spending Review and legislation on student fees. A promised Higher Education White Paper eventually appeared after successive postponements: “Students at the Heart of the System” presented concrete proposals for furthering the government’s explicit agenda of putting “more power in the hands of the consumer”. The consumer will certainly pay more, following the removal of teaching grants for most subjects and the tripling of student fees from 2012. We still await the outcome of the consultation that succeeded the White Paper, but it is clear that market competition and greater diversity 3 The Pelican Record between higher education institutions are key goals, to be furthered by the probable opening up of the system to private providers. A White Paper on the place of university research is expected soon. The implications for Oxford and other leading universities of these known and prospective changes are likely to be profound. At the time of writing the distinctly troubled economic outlook in the UK and beyond only serves to reinforce the uncertainty. That Corpus will soon complete its first half-millennium as a distinguished centre of scholarship, as exemplified by Rainolds, encourages a sense of proportion and resilience in the face of these external challenges. The College is not complacent – recent developments will certainly demand new strategies – but we do enjoy a quiet confidence in our resources: not least, the scholarly excellence of dedicated Fellows, the generous support of Old Members and the advantage of being a distinguished part of a University numbered amongst the world’s elite. We are well placed to contend with the future thanks also to the excellent husbandry and financial management of the College in recent times. No one played a bigger