https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/40311 2026-04-11T00:49:18Z 2026-04-11T00:49:18Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/38559 2019-01-18T02:47:47Z 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Folk dance and drama Abstract: My title says Polk Dance and Drama because I have long specialized in these interwoven subjects, and because so far as I can judge in a visit to the island, Malta possesses some very good comparative material in these subjects. If there is time l would like to bring in the improvising singers of Malta who I have been able ta hear and compare them with other improvising bards, especially the Basque Bertsularis, and a wonderful bard from Croatia I once heard. If time, also I would like to touch on the tradition of Giants. But one talk of forty minutes will be short indeed and the folklore subjects will perforce be but few. Description: Lecture delivered in the University Theater on the 3rd May, 1960

1960-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/38558 2019-04-12T07:12:12Z 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Newman's visit to Malta in 1832 Abstract: It does not seem to be widely known that John Henry Newman was one of the many, English, literary figures who visited Malta in the nineteenth century. His name, in fact, is unmentioned in the chapter in Sir Harry Luke' s book on Malta which, deals with the visits of Coleridge, Byron, Scott and other writers who were Newman's contemporaries. Like Thackeray twelve years after him, he paid two calls at Malta in the course of a Mediterranean tour which: included the lonian Isles, Sicily and Italy. Description: Donald Sultana Collection.

1960-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/38557 2019-10-16T07:57:02Z 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The social and political philosophy of Gerard Winstanley Abstract: One of the major domestic issues of mid-seventeenth century England was the problem of how to work out and apply a pragmatic concept of the power of government. Consequently England during the period of the Interregnum became a significant battleground of ideas when diverse militant and articulate groups struggled for power and dominance. The military phase of the Great Rebellion began on August 22, 1642, when King Charles I raised the royal standard at Nottingham. This action represented the culmination of some forty years of intensified struggle for supremacy between the Stuart dynasty and Parliament. Intermingled with.the constitutional causes were religious, economic, and social factors. A remarkable feature of the English civil war is the point that although both sides suffered from internal dissension, the faction which suffered the 'most from such disputes won the war. After nearly four years of military strife the first phase of the conflict ended when Charles I surrendered himself to the Scots on May 5, 1646.

1960-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/38556 2019-01-18T02:47:35Z 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The American state university system Abstract: The American pattern of higher education with almost 1800 universities, colleges, institutes, and what not, is indeed confusing to the outsider and by no means easy for an American to explain. Within this larger pattern, however, the state university has shown a certain coherence which to my mind justifies calling it a system. Institutions of higher education in the United States may be divided into three main classes, privately supported institutions, publicly supported institutions, and church, sponsored institutions. :In this paper I shall not have much occasion to refer to church, sponsored institutions, but shall frequently make comparisons between state universities and private universities.

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