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CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE THE PELICAN RECORD Vol. LIV December 2018 CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE THE PELICAN RECORD Vol. LIV December 2018 i The Pelican Record Editor: Mark Wrathall Assistant Editors: Sara Watson, Joanna Burnett, David Wilson Design and Printing: Mayfield Press Published by Corpus Christi College, Oxford 2018 Website: http://www.ccc.ox.ac.uk Email: [email protected] Front cover: Published by kind permission of the artist, Katherine Shock, and UIT Cambridge Ltd/Green Books, publisher of The Oxford Art Book (The City Through The Eyes Of Its Artists). Back cover: The Library, Corpus Christi College, from an original oil painting by Ceri Allen. ii The Pelican Record CONTENTS President’s Report ........................................................................................ 3 A Sermon for the Quincentenary Eamon Duffy ................................................................................................... 6 Worship and Music in the Hive, 1517–1567: Enigmas and Revelations Alex Shinn ....................................................................................................... 10 W.W. Fisher – The Forgotten Fellow Richard Ellis .................................................................................................... 26 A College at War: Corpus Life and Buildings, 1914–1918 Harriet Patrick ................................................................................................ 30 The Secret History of Corpus SCR Brian Harrison ................................................................................................ 39 How Argo Got It Wrong: The True Story of the American Hostages in Tehran Martin Williams .............................................................................................. 57 The Life Scientific Sarah Salter ..................................................................................................... 65 A Corpuscle, Unplugged Jaime Rall ........................................................................................................ 68 Law At Corpus: A Home From Home Voraphol Malsukhum ...................................................................................... 71 The Value of Friendship Robert Laurella ................................................................................................ 74 Exploring Mental Health Provision in Sri Lanka: Sharpston Travel Grant Report Jenny Sanderson .............................................................................................. 76 The Ancient and Modern in Context Ella Benson Easton ......................................................................................... 82 Garden Notes: When The Bees Leave The Hive David Leake ..................................................................................................... 85 Reviews East of Asia Minor: Rome’s Hidden Frontier, by Timothy Bruce Mitford James Howard-Johnston .................................................................................. 88 The Fox and the Bees. The Early Library of Corpus Christi College Oxford, by R.M. Thomson David Rundle .................................................................................................. 94 1 The Pelican Record Tact: Aesthetic Liberalism and the Essay Form in Nineteenth-Century Britain, by David Russell Kirsty Martin ................................................................................................ 99 Lincoln’s Sense of Humour, by Richard Carwardine Nigel Bowles .................................................................................................. 103 An Oxford College at War, Corpus Christi College, 1914–1918, edited by Harriet Patrick Richard Lofthouse .......................................................................................... 107 Obituaries John Bannister ............................................................................................. 112 Michael Barnes ............................................................................................ 113 John Bastin ................................................................................................... 114 David Collis ................................................................................................. 118 Neil Goulty .................................................................................................. 119 Rhys Griffiths .............................................................................................. 121 John Harrison .............................................................................................. 122 David Henderson ....................................................................................... 125 Peter Hopkins ............................................................................................. 128 Valerio Lucchesi .......................................................................................... 134 Brian Neill .................................................................................................... 138 Robert Newman .......................................................................................... 140 Richard Searby ............................................................................................ 143 Michael Sharpston ...................................................................................... 144 Jeremy Swann ............................................................................................. 145 Mark Whittow ............................................................................................. 147 The Record The Chaplain ............................................................................................... 151 The Library .................................................................................................. 153 The College Archives ................................................................................. 169 The Junior Common Room ....................................................................... 171 The Middle Common Room ..................................................................... 173 Expanding Horizons Scholarships ........................................................... 175 Travel Grant Reports .................................................................................. 182 Chapel Choir ............................................................................................... 192 Clubs and Societies ................................................................................... 200 The Fellows ................................................................................................. 221 News of Corpuscles News of Old Members ............................................................................... 233 Deaths ........................................................................................................... 236 Scholarships and Prizes 2017–2018 .......................................................... 237 Graduate Examination Results ................................................................. 240 Undergraduate Examination Results ...................................................... 243 New Members of the College ................................................................... 251 2 The Pelican Record PReSideNT’S RePORT Nicholas Read THE PRESIDENT’S REPORT for The Pelican Record is normally written in the tranquil confines of the first floor rooms in the Fellows Building, where the main distractions are the splendid views across the Meadow and the click of croquet balls. This year it is being composed in the rather less bucolic surroundings of the US Department of Energy’s Plasma Physics Laboratory here at Princeton University. It was a difficult decision to give up my role at Corpus in July 2018 to take up the leadership of one of the world’s biggest experiments in nuclear fusion, but the pull of science proved irresistible. Nonetheless, rarely a day passes when I do not miss the remarkable colleagues, students and alumni whom I came to know at Corpus. Those memories are stirred whenever I walk pass the replica of the Corpus sundial that sits on the Princeton campus. It was presented to Princeton in 1907 by Sir William Mather as a symbol of the connections between the United States and England and between their institutions of higher learning. Though while it is lovely, it isn’t a patch on the real thing! I am delighted that the College has elected Dr. Helen Moore as my successor. Helen has been a tutorial fellow in English at the College since 1996 and brings to the role a wealth of experience of teaching and research. Her thoughtful and pragmatic approach to leadership is perfect for the College. It is especially gratifying to me that Corpus 3 The Pelican Record has elected its first woman President in the 501 years since its foundation – a long overdue development in the eyes of many of us. We were able to welcome a number of new members of our Governing Body during my last year. Professor Mark Wrathall was elected Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy. Before coming to Oxford, he was Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. Katherine Paugh became our Field Fellow in North American Women’s History, having previously been an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Pier Francesco Palamara became our second tutorial fellow in Mathematics when he was elected Associate Professor of Statistical and Population Genetics,