John Leyden, poet and linguist.

John Keats, Apothecary and Poet

that she gave to him would never wither, '' sheltered and shut in a nook of rhyme from the reaper man and his reaper Time." Keats also, despite his humility, had this prescience of immortality: "I think," he said, "I shall be among the English poets after my death." He knew that Time's fell hand would touch him only lightly. He is, above others, the Poet of Beauty?of Beauty in Nature, in the he...

Does a Computational Linguist have to be a Linguist?

Early computational linguists supplied much of theoretical basis that the ALPAC report said was needed for research on the practical problem of machine translation. The result of their efforts turned out to be more fundamental in that it provided a general theoretical basis for the study of language use as a process, giving rise eventually to constraint-based grammatical formalisms for syntax, ...

The Pathologist as Poet

The role of the humanities (eg, philosophy, bioethics, literature, music, theater, religion, anthropology) in medical education has been argued long and hard for decades. It is argued that the study of subjects included in the humanities can enhance critical thinking skills, foster a deeper level of learning and understanding, and help to enhance one's level of compassion, empathy, and moral/et...

Cambridge medical students at Leyden.

HIsToRUNs of medical education at Cambridge during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (Rolleston 1932; Winstanley 1935, 1958) have rightly drawn attention to the inadequacy of university provision for medical teaching. They have criticized, with some inconsistency, both the failure of the University to revise its outmoded statutory requirements and its failure to enforce them. Until the n...

Studies on Charcot-Leyden crystals.