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Darwin 2001/2 – Growth and Diversity Newsletter of Darwin College Spring 2002 Darwin 2001/2 – Growth and Diversity Darwin College has received an all colleges (often due to candidates’ of China and Japan each have 13 unprecedented number of failure to raise the necessary funding). students and 27 countries have only a applications for this academic year. Unlike the airlines, colleges cannot offer single representative. Of the current This is in spite of looming concerns a night in a hotel or an upgrade to membership 41% are women, 40% about how changes in university business class if students will come study arts and 16% are married. All of funding mechanisms may hit back next year! So space has been these figures are the same as last Cambridge colleges – especially the found for all that do succeed in raising year. graduate colleges. There were 563 their funding – and the college thrives. The new Gates Scholarship applicants for the Michaelmas Term – Here are some statistics for the year Scheme may have contributed to the a 38% rise. The proportion actually 2001/2: 60% of the new students are record interest in Darwin and taking up their offers was also high from overseas (17% from the EU). Cambridge – Darwin has welcomed 7 which has created the largest Students come from 71 different Gates Scholars this year. However, this graduate membership ever. countries compared to 64 last year. Top is only a partial explanation for the The art of judging how many of the league table (numerically speaking) large number and high calibre of places to offer is akin to the problems are UK 227, USA 37, Germany 34, entrants. The greater reason seems to faced by the airline industry with a Greece 21 and Canada with 17 be that at the dawn of the new century high proportion of no shows faced by students. Australia, the Peoples Republic Darwin’s reputation is growing apace. The 2002 Darwin Lecture Series continues the rich tradition of looking at a single theme from a number of oblique perspectives. This year’s series on POWER starts with Tony Benn addressing ‘Power and Democracy’ and ends with Mary Archer on ‘Sustainable Power’. Lectures start at 5.30pm in Lady Mitchell Hall. All are welcome and an early arrival is recommended as many lectures are over-subscribed. Further details at www.dar.cam.ac 18 Jan POWER & DEMOCRACY Tony Benn 25 Jan POWER IN CELLS John Walker, MRC Dunn Human Tony Benn Nutrition Unit 1 Feb POWERS OF TEN Neil de Grasse Tyson, Hayden Planetarium, New York 8 Feb NARRATIVE POWER Maureen Thomas, Cambridge University Moving Image Studio 15 Feb POWER OF LIFE & DEATH Elisabeth Bronfen, University of Zurich 22 Feb POWER OF MUSIC Derek Scott, Salford University 1 Mar POWER OF MATHEMATICS John Conway, Princeton University 8 Mar SUSTAINABLE POWER Mary Archer, National Energy Mary Archer Foundation Inside 2-3 4-5 6-7 Darwin College Society Calendar Gwen Raverat: Friends, Family & Affections Obituary – George Pember Darwin Professor Hugh Mellor: Pro-Vice Chancellor Darwin Fellows Retirement Dinner Obituary – May McNair Darwin Pairings/Propagation of the Species Remembering 1956 Poems by Alison Morgan Darwin Achievements/Darwin Descendents 2 them have. Rather what is grimy is the be destroyed at the end of the year, new material coming in from basements some kept for five to ten years and and attics, from under-stairs cupboards, then destroyed, some would be re- and from surplus lavatories suddenly assessed in five years, or at five-yearly thought not to be surplus after all. intervals, and some would be so ‘So’, people ask, ‘what do you obviously vital that they would be actually do?’ My standard answer used printed out on acid-free paper and to be, ‘I type lists and I label cardboard conveyed to the archives in five, ten, boxes.’ And, indeed, a substantial twenty years time. It’s a nice idea, and, Just what do number of years in my life have been believe it or not, there are places where devoted to just these romantic exercises. it happens. In an institution the size of archivists Several months have been devoted to Darwin it would be quite possible to humping the cardboard boxes (and achieve, but one of the glories of the actually do? massive tomes) hither and yon. There is university, from some points of view, is Come to that, what is an archivist? no place for the weedy! that each department or faculty has a Someone who, if their handwriting is bad So what are these lists I have certain freedom to go its own way, and enough, may be mistaken for an activist, devoted so much time to typing? With boy! Do they go it! or better still an anarchist. There is luck they are lists I have drawn up myself, In theory, the archives of an indeed ample scope for archival anarchy, and they are, of course, lists of archives – institution should reveal, by its ordering, or anarchic archivry, but the fictional or lists of where the archives are to be the way in which that institution works, stereotype does not, or has not yet to found, or lists of readers, or lists of such that they are grouped under the my knowledge, recognised this happy archives repaired or photographed or just officer, or the body, which generated possibility. The fictional archivist is a consulted this year. Stand up the boy them, and the officers or bodies which weedy individual, usually male, shabbily who said that the job offered no scope answer to them are sub-groups within attired, somewhat shaven and generally for creativity! There are also lists of the main group. That is easy enough to grubby. He sits in a cellar pouring over archives received and not retained; lists, achieve for any given moment of time, vellum scrolls, usually described as you might well say, of junk. but it becomes a puzzle when the parchment, and if the hero managed to This is where life gets interesting. institution is constantly evolving. Thus, accost him, he rather reluctantly Not only do we take things in, in a the documents surviving from the first produces one scroll after another, until, manner of speaking, but we also throw 300 or so years of the university, seized with a demented enthusiasm, he them out. This would not happen in the charters apart, were nearly all compiled enters into the spirit of the chase and best of all possible worlds. In that by the proctors. Those for the next 400 starts hauling massive and extremely world the chaps who create the years mostly by the registrary, but the dusty tomes off vertiginously high documents would code them, at the function and the form of the documents shelves and finally drops one on either very moment of writing, according to does not change significantly. his own or his enquirer’s glasses. their predicted life cycle. Some would continued on page 5 If only! The only thing that is recognisable in this image is the general grubbiness. Being an archivist is a dirty Darwin College Society Calendar job. However, it is not the ancient scrolls Friday, 18th March 2002 DCS Dinner (and yes, we do have ancient scrolls) Friday, 17th May 2002 DCS Dinner which are grimy, they have been Friday, 12th July 2002 Old Darwinian Summer Party beautifully conserved according to the (invitation enclosed with this issue) most up-to-date methods. Well, some of Darwinian biologists view the Human Nutrition Research in Cambridge. Darwinian phenomenon of ‘assortative mating’ (by They have a young son Felix. which animals and people tend to couple Andrew Prentice (1974-77, PhD in Pairings with similar types) as an important Nutrition) is Professor of International influence on genetic selection. Darwin Nutrition at the London School of College provides many examples. We Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and continue the list here with the addition of Director of the MRC Nutrition Programme two of your editors. in The Gambia. He is Secretary to the Richard Jebb (1986-87, Diploma in DCS. Ann Prentice (nee Rubach, 1975- Computing) is now Technical Director of the 78, PhD in Nuclear Medicine) is now software company PCF Ltd and Chairman Director of MRC Human Nutrition of the DCS. Susan Jebb (nee Parkinson, Research in Cambridge. They have two 1986-89, PhD in Nutrition) is now Head of girls studying English and Medicine at the Nutrition and Health Group at MRC ‘the other place’. 3 Professor Hugh Mellor: Pro-Vice Chancellor I for example was originally recruited my colleagues is that by taking a little time to oversee the University’s submission to to give us this data, they are taking part in this year’s Research Assessment Exercise the biggest collective research grant (RAE), an assessment of the research application the University has ever made! done in all University departments. This My other main task last term was even determines how much research money trickier, since it had to do, not with trying UK Universities will get from the to increase the University’s resources, but Government for the next five years. In with trying to agree on a formula for fact, this job was so well organised by allocating them to our Schools and their Peta Stevens (now herself a Fellow of Faculties and Departments. For the Darwin) and her staff that reading our previous two terms I chaired a working submissions, and settling a few borderline group that included the Chairs of three of questions about who should be entered our five Schools, who were able to agree and in what subjects, took up much less on the main principles that should govern Abbreviating the title ‘Pro-Vice- of my time than I’d expected.
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