Essays
King’s College, Cambridge
Annual Report 2011
Annual Report 2011
Contents
The Provost The Fellowship Undergraduates at King’s Graduates at King’s Tutorial Research Library Chapel Choir Bursary Staff Development Appointments & Honours Obituaries Information for Non Resident Members 2 7 17 24 27 34 38 42 46 49 53 55 60 65 239
The Provost
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THE PROVOST
candidates at too late a stage to announce its formal cancellation. But, unsurprisingly, with no candidates there was no election. That was in June 2011. In July the Fellows found an alternative way of filling the hole created by my departure in December. Instead of electing This is my sixth Introduction to the Annual Report. I hadn’t planned to do it. I wrote my first before starting as Provost and I had hoped to land this one on my successor on the same basis. (“They want to hear from the rising rather than the falling star and in any case you’ll be in post by the time people read it.”) It’s not that I failed to persuade my successor to take it on. It’s that the College failed to find a successor for me to persuade. The College failed to find my successor. I There will accordingly be another election some time in 2012. If you have any good ideas about who should be chosen, I am sure that the College would be grateful to know. It could be yourself or someone else from King’s that you know, or you could get someone else you know to suggest yourself. A Fellow will in due course be appointed to run the election but in the interim you may address all good ideas to the Vice Provost. It’s important for the College to get it right. I’m informed that we had several good candidates last time. We certainly need them again and it’s worth your care in creating good suggestions. It gives me great pleasure… Yes, this is for real. Having done the McGuffin, introducing the Introduction at excessive length, here beginneth the real McCoy. I start with an update on two matters about which I wrote in previous years. Two
Annual Report 2011
Annual Report 2011
Contents
The Provost The Fellowship Undergraduates at King’s Graduates at King’s Tutorial Research Library Chapel Choir Bursary Staff Development Appointments & Honours Obituaries Information for Non Resident Members 2 7 17 24 27 34 38 42 46 49 53 55 60 65 239
The Provost
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THE PROVOST
candidates at too late a stage to announce its formal cancellation. But, unsurprisingly, with no candidates there was no election. That was in June 2011. In July the Fellows found an alternative way of filling the hole created by my departure in December. Instead of electing This is my sixth Introduction to the Annual Report. I hadn’t planned to do it. I wrote my first before starting as Provost and I had hoped to land this one on my successor on the same basis. (“They want to hear from the rising rather than the falling star and in any case you’ll be in post by the time people read it.”) It’s not that I failed to persuade my successor to take it on. It’s that the College failed to find a successor for me to persuade. The College failed to find my successor. I There will accordingly be another election some time in 2012. If you have any good ideas about who should be chosen, I am sure that the College would be grateful to know. It could be yourself or someone else from King’s that you know, or you could get someone else you know to suggest yourself. A Fellow will in due course be appointed to run the election but in the interim you may address all good ideas to the Vice Provost. It’s important for the College to get it right. I’m informed that we had several good candidates last time. We certainly need them again and it’s worth your care in creating good suggestions. It gives me great pleasure… Yes, this is for real. Having done the McGuffin, introducing the Introduction at excessive length, here beginneth the real McCoy. I start with an update on two matters about which I wrote in previous years. Two