SIR,-May I add a postscript to the delightful and fully deserved eulogy of the late Sir Harold Gillies by your correspondent Mr. Patrick Clarkson (10 September, p. 641). I was present in Boulogne one day in the autumn of 1915 with a Captain Harry Grey, a Canadian E.N.T. surgeon, when the meeting I am about to describe took place. He and I, as officers of the same motor ambulance unit near Poper...

An undergraduate class of 37 American outdoor education students were involved in a one-day “Mystery Adventure”. The program design was based on a holistic ‘wave theory’ model, as described by Martin (2001) in the context of Outward Bound program design in the Czech Republic. The one-day Mystery Adventure was based in a small, rural town and involved students in small groups selecting their own...

This paper offers an analysis of similar and parallel developing projects creating a true philosophy by the disciples followers Origen Plotinus. Two texts permeated eulogy scholarch are analysed: Gregory Wonderworker’s The Address Thanksgiving to Life Plotinus Porphyry. was student Origen, while Porphyry attended his school long enough become familiar with doctrine, teaching methods personality...

although critics and novelists have not paid enough attention to the second person point of view, it has a lot of potentials for picturing the deepest parts of human mind. most important types of this model are: 1. narratives in which the narrator, the protagonist and the addressee are the same; 2. narratives in which the narrator is separate from the protagonist/addressee. reviewing the comple...

this paper reviews the elegy themes of imam hussein (as) in the epic of ‘eid ghadir’ composed by christian poet boolos salama, and begins with the introduction of the ashura literature and especially poetry surrounding imam hussein. this article talks about the laborious life of poet and his compilations especially his great islamic epic, which is famous in the field of literature, and also tal...

hashemiat are title of eight religious, sociopolitical and revolutionary odes that have been verified by kumait ibn zeyd asadi; in fact these odes are considered as the first and foremost work of him and they have been versified approximately fifteen or twenty years after martyrdom of imam hossein (pbuh) within the suffocating and oppressive ruling period of umayyads and they were propagated pr...

A TIMELESS PERSONALITY-A DELIGHTFUL MEMORY " In the Flood of life in the storm of deeds I surge and ebb, Weaving to and fro An eternal sea A changing weaving A glowing life I create at the whirring loom of time And work the deities' living garb " (Goethe in Faust) The subject of this eulogy was a towering colossus among Indian scientists, who pioneered the study of neurosciences in the subconti...

ELIZABETH CHAMBERS PATTERSON, Mary Somerville and the cultivation ofscience, 1815-1840, Boston, Mass., and The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, 1983, 8vo, pp. xiii, 264, Dfl.90.00/$39.50. In 1879, Mary Somerville (1780-1872) received one of the most prized forms of eponymous recognition when a women's college at Oxford was named after her. There was good cause for conferring such immortality upon her. ...