CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE THE PELICAN RECORD Vol. L December 2014 i The Pelican Record Editor: Mark Whittow Design and Printing: Lynx DPM Limited Published by Corpus Christi College, Oxford 2014 Website: http://www.ccc.ox.ac.uk Email: [email protected] The editor would like to thank Rachel Pearson, Julian Reid, Lorna Swadling, Sara Watson and David Wilson. Front cover: Students Eating Breakfast in Hall, by Ceri Allen Back cover: Pelican, by Patrick Watson ii The Pelican Record CONTENTS President’s Report .................................................................................. 3 President’s Seminar: Memories of Eduard Fraenkel and Corpus, 1935-1970 Edward Fraenkel ....................................................................................... 10 President’s Seminar: UK Charities, Political Campaigning and Democracy: Some Meditations from the Front Line Andrew Purkis .......................................................................................... 19 Corpuscle Casualties from the First World War Harriet Fisher ............................................................................................ 32 “Adviser-general to the Whole Community”: Arthur Sidgwick at Corpus Emily Rutherford ....................................................................................... 39 Art for our Sake: Ceri Allen: Artist in Residence John Watts ................................................................................................. 46 Sermon Preached at Evensong in Corpus Christi College Chapel Werner G. Jeanrond .................................................................................. 52 Psychology at Corpus Robin Murphy ........................................................................................... 56 Two Books Printed at Sea Julie Blyth .................................................................................................. 59 English Country Houses and Domestic Study Spaces: Sharpston Travel Grant Report Harry Begg ................................................................................................ 65 Reviews Wales and the Britons 350–1064 by T.M. Charles-Edwards Ian Wood ................................................................................................... 70 xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mark Whittow ........................................................................................... 74 Obituaries John Baker ........................................................................................... 76 Sebastian Barker ................................................................................ 79 Michael Brock .................................................................................... 82 1 The Pelican Record Alistair Campbell McIntosh .......................................................... 87 Douglas Jones .................................................................................. 90 Richard Jones ................................................................................... 94 John Zochonis .................................................................................. 97 The Record Chaplain’s Report ............................................................................. 98 Chapel Choir ..................................................................................... 99 The Library ........................................................................................ 100 Gifts to the Library ........................................................................... 105 Archivist’s Report ............................................................................. 115 Donations to the Archives ............................................................... 118 The Junior Common Room ............................................................. 119 The Middle Common Room ........................................................... 121 Corpus Photo Competition ............................................................. 123 Clubs and Societies Rowing ............................................................................................... 127 Mixed Hockey ................................................................................... 130 Women’s Hockey .............................................................................. 130 Men’s Football .................................................................................. 131 Women’s Football ............................................................................. 132 Cricket ................................................................................................ 132 Netball ................................................................................................ 133 Tennis ................................................................................................. 134 Classics Society ............................................................................... 134 Owlets .............................................................................................. 135 Werewolf .......................................................................................... 136 The Fellows ........................................................................................ 137 News of Corpuscles Deaths ............................................................................................... 149 Scholarships and Prizes 2013–2014 ................................................ 150 Graduate Examination Results ....................................................... 151 Undergraduate Examination Results ............................................ 154 New Members of the College ......................................................... 162 Personal Information Form ............................................................... 167 2 The Pelican Record PRESIDENT’S REPORT A PRESIDENTIAL REPORT THAT BEGINS, not for the first time, with a summary of the College’s building work over the last year may be judged sadly prosaic. It is doubtful, however, that any Oxford college in the recent past has done proportionately more than Corpus for the economic well-being of Oxford planners, architects and the construction industry. The opening of the College’s Lampl Building in Michaelmas Term completed the first phase of an ambitious programme of improvements to our residential and teaching accommodation; users’ level of satisfaction there has been exceptionally high and the competition for rooms intense. The start of the second phase, due in January 2014, was delayed by costly, but ultimately unsuccessful, objections to the planned refurbishment and internal re-engineering of the Powell & Moya “New Building” in Magpie Lane, work that will now begin in January 2015. But other projects have kept our Bursars, Buildings Committee, Master of Works and the builders themselves busily employed throughout the year: completing the re-roofing on the east of the Main Quad; refurbishing and re-roofing Beam Hall; and carrying out emergency structural work on Staircase 5 following the discovery of extensive cracks in the upper storeys. 3 The Pelican Record Our Founder, Richard Fox, gave us our buildings to serve the scholarship and learning of an academic beehive. The undergraduate bees have excelled themselves this year, achieving an impressive total of twenty First Class results and forty-four Upper Seconds: together these represented 97% of our Finalists, the College’s second highest performance in at least two decades. In the Norrington Table our overall score was the third highest this century and puts us comfortably back into the top half of the rankings. The achievement was crowned by a clutch of University prizes, including the Gaisford Prize for Greek Verse and the Sunderland Prize for Greek (Anthony Collins), the Examiners’ Special Prize in Chemical Biology (Ivan Dimov), the Turbutt Prize in Practical Organic Chemistry (Sam Exton), the 5 Stone Buildings Prize for Trusts (Nina Fischer), the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications Prize (George Garston), the Francis Taylor Building Prize for Environmental Law (Gayatri Parthasarathy), the Best Performance in Copyright, Trade Marks and Allied Rights (Midori Takenaka) and the Wronker Research Project Prize in Medicine (Imogen Welding). These achievements reflect not only the strenuous efforts of the Finalists and their tutors’ commitment, but also the devotion of the Senior Tutor, Dr. Neil McLynn, to what he has described as a quietly determined campaign to encourage academic excellence, to support those students who find it difficult to cope with the peculiar pressures of the Oxford system and to ensure that the important extracurricular dimension of the undergraduate experience is kept in proper perspective. His weekly lunchtime academic support sessions continued to be well received. Our record of admirable achievement by our postgraduates continued this year, with eighteen students awarded the D.Phil and six of the nineteen taught Masters students obtaining a distinction. We also congratulate Olivia Elder on winning the Ancient History Prize. The signal achievements of the Fellows over the course of the year have included two coveted Leverhulme Major Research Fellowships: awarded to Giovanni Capoccia, Professor of Comparative Politics, to pursue a project on “Reshaping Democracy after Authoritarianism: Explaining Responses to Neo-Fascism in Western Europe”; and to Tobias Reinhardt, Corpus Christi Professor of Classics, to produce a commentary and a modern critical