Arts - Letters - Society Former Staff
from PART 1 - I REMEMBER ..
Summary
Since members of staff normally spend longer at university than students, the reminiscences of former staff of Liverpool University regularly cover lengthier periods of time - and can run to book length. Given the limitations of space in the present volume, living contributors were asked to be succinct on specific topics and earlier printed accounts are represented only in select extracts (generally chosen to encourage the reader to seek out the original and read all). Furthermore, it was felt necessary and proper to concentrate on the reminiscences of those most involved at a formal level in the Faculty machinery. This concentration on former Deans means (regrettably) a professorial bias - as also represented in the official histories of the university - and the recollections of less senior staff are under-represented. Many living former staff who might have contributed are asked to accept this explanation for their not having been individually invited.
1890s-1920s
Walter Raleigh, Professor of Modern Literature and English Language 1890-1900 (extract from his contribution to a 1914 tribute volume)
The staff of University College, when I first knew it, consisted largely of young men, chosen, with such warrant of ability as was available, not so much to carry on University education in the North (for the thing was new) as to invent it. In any such staff the majority will always be individualists, content to be clever each in his own way, clinging to any freedom that the machine allows of him, incurious about the mechanism, and willing to pay a reasonable respect to the duties put upon him by time-tables, registrars, principals, and the programmes of committees.
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- Arts - Letters - SocietyA Miscellany Commemorating the Centenary of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Liverpool, pp. 85 - 132Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 1996