Gift of £100 for Lepers, <em>The Sydney Morning Herald</em>, 28 September 1937
Barbarity, Coast Lazaret Hospital, criminals, disease, Dr E. H. Molesworth, ill-treatment, imprisonment, individual rights, infection, International Leprosy Association, Lazarus House, leprosy, Little Bay, medical treatment, medicine, medieval attitudes, New South Wales, NSW, primitive treatment, prisoners, scourge, segregation, skin diseases, susceptibility, Sydney University.
This article from the Sydney Morning Herald in 1937 relates the concerns and criticisms of Dr E. H. Molesworth, a lecturer in skin diseases at The University of Sydney, regarding the treatment of leprosy at the Coast Lazaret Hospital in the New South Wales region of Little Bay. Containing lengthy quotes, the article conveys Dr Molesworth’s view that Australian attitudes towards leprosy were still medieval, primitive and reactionary, and that as a consequence treatment for the disease was falling well behind the times when compared to European cities. The disease, he suggests, was still being viewed as a horrible scourge (as it had been in the middle ages), and so people suffering from it were regarded as dangerous pariahs who should be segregated from society. The resultant approach regarding treatment for the disease – to nominate specific areas away from the general populace and to lock sufferers away – deprived people of their individual rights and was tantamount to treating them like criminals, Dr Molesworth complained. It also made the disease more dangerous, because people who could be treated were concealing their condition on account of the stigma it continued to attract.
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The Sydney Morning Herald
28 September 1937, p.12
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Newspaper Article
Wool Types in Australia Total 1,500
competition, marketing, medieval methods, sales, Sydney University, synthetic fibres, T. G. Hunter, wool, wool market, wool trade, sheep
In this article about wool sales in 1952, Australia’s marketing methods are described as medieval. T. G. Hunter, a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Sydney University, is quoted advising that wool should be marketed in a few uniform grades (rather than by 1,500 different classification types) so as to counter the threat posed by uniform quality synthetic fibres. This change, although costly, is necessary, suggests the author, if the Australian wool trade is to maintain its sales volume.
Anon.
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The West Australian
6 December 1952, p. 10.
The West Australian
Digitised Newspaper Article
English
York Minster Bells
Sydney University, Sydney, university, universities, bell, bells, York Minster, Taylor & Company, Leicester, Leicestershire, contract
An image of the recasting of the York Minster Bells, which are described as being "the heaviest ringing in England." The article states Taylor & Company of Longborough, Leicester, who worked on the bells, were contracted to cast the carillon for Sydney University.
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The Sydney Morning Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald
17 July 1926, p. 11.
The Sydney Morning Herald
Newspaper Article
English
Medieval Drama
Arthur, Arthurian, Arthuriana, Death of Arthur, entertainment, Holy Grail, John Gould, King, King Arthur, Le Morte d'Arthur, Malory, monarch, monarchy, quest, Quest for the Holy Grail, New South Wales, NSW, performance, play, plays, Sir Thomas Malory, stage, stage play, Sydney, Sydney University, theatre, University, university play
An article from the Sydney Morning Herald notifying readers of a second performance of Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur. The performance by graduates and undergraduates of the University of Sydney was of a section of Malory's work, The Quest for the Holy Grail. The performance included a cast of over 150 in costume, and a Gregorian choir.
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The Sydney Morning Herald
7 July 1936
National Library of Australia
Newspaper Article
Newspaper Article
Commemoration
Academia, academic, academic formality, ceremony, Commem Day, commemoration, commemoration speech, formality, Latin, NSW, New South Wales, Oxford University, senate, speech, student, students, Sydney, The University of Sydney, undergraduates, university.
Sydney University Commemoration speech. Refers to the undergraduates' role as the <em>terrae filius</em> of "medieval times." With a literal meaning of 'son of the earth', <em>terrae filius</em> has also been used to describe a student asked to deliver a satirical Latin poem at Oxford University.
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The Sydney Morning Herald
1 May 1909
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