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William Roscoe: An Inaugural Lecture on Election to the Andrew Geddes and John Rankin Chair of Modern History in the University of Liverpool
Excerpt from William Roscoe
But the peculiarity of my position resides not only in the fact that I have been doing the work of my Chair for five years past, but also 1n the fact that, as I am proud to claim, I am the first graduate of this University to be raised to a Chair in it. When I look back over the seventeen years which have passed since I entered this place as a timid freshman, I find it impossible to express the ma tude of my obligations to my Alma Mater. Er latest boon 18 this, that she permits me to serve her in an office which, during all these years, it has been my secret ambition to fill. I am not, therefore.
But the peculiarity of my position resides not only in the fact that I have been doing the work of my Chair for five years past, but also 1n the fact that, as I am proud to claim, I am the first graduate of this University to be raised to a Chair in it. When I look back over the seventeen years which have passed since I entered this place as a timid freshman, I find it impossible to express the ma tude of my obligations to my Alma Mater. Er latest boon 18 this, that she permits me to serve her in an office which, during all these years, it has been my secret ambition to fill. I am not, therefore.
37 pages, Paperback
Published August 24, 2018
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