https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/40263 2026-04-05T17:16:52Z 2026-04-05T17:16:52Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/38345 2019-01-15T02:47:43Z 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Some aspects of economics in the light of present international cooperation Abstract: Of all sciences, the three most discussed in the world to-day are nuclear physics, economics and sociology. Indeed, over the radio and in almost all newspapers we find quite a good number of economic and social problems that are becoming daily more and more complicated owing to an ever-increasing population as well as to specialization of labour, technical improvement and, la st but not least, 'atomic' progress. Needs are numberless, and unfortunately man finds great difficulty in restraining his material wants within reasonable bounds, and so he finds himself tempted to act in the economic sphere seeking for an ever-increasing self-comfort regardless of the rights of his fellowmen.

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Title: The affair of Ostrog : an episode in Malto-Polish relations in the eighteenth century Abstract: In the days of the medieval Catholicity of Europe. the Order of Knights Hospitaller of St John of Jerusalem held lands in countries outside the narrower compass to which it was reduced by the Reformation, but by 1700 the Tongue of England was defunct, and the Priory of Dacia, which had included commanderies in Denmark, Sweden and Norway, had dis,' appeared, In the Tongue of Germany, the Priory of Brandenburg had turned Lutheran and the Priory of Poland dwindled away.

1958-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/38343 2024-06-21T07:36:27Z 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The re-opening of the University in 1800 Abstract: With the rising of the Maltese against the French on the 2nd September, 1798, Napoleon's plans for the reform of higher education in Malta were indefinitely postponed and later had to be abandoned altogether. On the 18th June Bonaparte had decreed that the University was to be replaced by a Central School, to which the Malta Library, the cabinet of Antiquities and the Observatory were to be attached, together with a Natural History Museum and a Botanical Garden covering thirty acres. The School was to have eight chairs, viz. (1) Arithmetic and Stereotomy, (2) AIgebra and Stereotomy, (3) Geometry and Astronomy, (4) Mechanics and Physics, (5) Chemistry, (6) Oriental Languages, (7) Navigation and (8) a Librarian entrusted with the Geography course. In addition, courses in Anatomy, Medicine and Midwifery were to be held at the Hospital.

1958-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/38342 2019-04-12T06:36:23Z 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Samuel Taylor Coleridge and an American naval hero in Malta Abstract: It is not to be expected that in the early nineteenth century, only a short time after the . American Revolution, the English in general should have had kindly feelings or words for their kinsmen in the United States. However, there was a notable exception in the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge thin whom, according to his son Hartley, 'the Americans, as a nation, had no better friend in England; he contemplated their growth with interest, and prophesied highly of their destiny'. Description: Donald Sultana Collection.

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