OXFORD Activebook

Blogumuza dolma kalem ile uyumlu defterlerden birini daha eklemekte fayda var. Hamelin şirketler grubunun bir üyesi olan Oxford, Avrupa menşeili bir firma. Profesyonel-akademik kullanım, günlük ve ofis kullanımı, öğrenciler için tasarlanmış ve çeşitli gruplara ayrılmış defterleri mevcut bulunuyor.

Oxford hakkında çok fazla detaya girmeyi düşünmüyorum, defterleri hepimiz az çok biliyoruz, ben daha çok Rhodia defterlerden kullansam da son yıllarda Oxford'un da dolma kalem severler arasında yaygınlaşan kullanımına kayıtsız kalamayıp bir iki modelini kullanmaya başladım. 

Defterin başta da sözünü ettiğim gibi bir çok çeşidi mevcut ben ilkin karton sert kapaklı A5 telli olanı kullanırken şimdi elimdeki plastik kapaklı versiyonu. Defterin  kenarında sayfanın dosyalanmasına  imkan veren farklı ebatlarda delikleri mevcut bu yönü ile de bazı kullanıcılar için elbette avantaj olacaktır, fakat yazı örnekleri yazanlar için görüntü açısından bu işlevsel sayfa kenarları göze takılarak estetik algısını biraz geri plana atıyor. 

Sayfa çizgileri çok belirgin olan defterlerden de maalesef aynı sebeplerden dolayı pek hoşlanmıyorum bazı firmalar sanırım teknik çizim de yapsınlar bizim sayfalarla diyerek milimetrik kağıt gibi sayfa yapıyorlar sonra açık renkli mürekkep kullanınca ne yazığımı okuyamıyorum :) neyseki defterimizin çizgileri o raddeye gelmemiş ama bir tık daha açık renkli çizgiler daha iyi olurdu. 

Defterin içerisinde iki farklı işlevsel seperatör/ayraç bulunuyor ilki kartondan cepli, diğeri ise plastikten bulunduğu yerden çıkartıp defteri bölmek istediğiniz sayfaya takabileceğiniz şekilde.

Sayfayı bu sefer sadece dolma kalemle değil farklı jel ve fosforlu kalemlerle de denedim, defter incelemelerime bundan sonra farklı kalemleri de dahil etmeyi düşünüyorum, gerçi her zaman vurguladığım nokta "dolma kaleme uygunluğu" fakat defter dolma kaleme uygunsa "evet harika defter" dolma kaleme uygun değilse "at çöpe o zaman" gibi bir algıda olmadığım için incelenen ürünlere haksızlık yapmak istemem. 

Kalemlerden sadece Kaweco Liliput, defter yüzeyinde hafif kırçıllanma yaptı arkaya geçirme olarak ise performans çok iyi hiçbir şey belli değil, 80gsm'lik bu kağıt sadece en alt satırda 5 kere üstünden geçtiğim fosforlu çizgiye dayanamadı (doğal olarak). 

Defter hakkındaki fikirlerinizi merak ederek bu günlük bu kadar diyelim o halde.

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Coldwater Covered Bridge - Oxford, Alabama

Coldwater Covered Bridge

Visible from the westbound lanes of Interstate 20 at Oxford, the Coldwater Covered Bridge is the oldest covered bridge in the State of Alabama.

Although some believe it was built as early as the 1830s, the bridge can be documented back as far as 1850 when it was a popular crossing over Coldwater Creek between Oxford and Talladega. Traditionally built by a freed slave, the bridge is a rare example of the Multiple Open King Post through Truss design which uses heavy posts raised on beams to support the apex of a triangle formed by the trusses of the bridge.

Coldwater Covered Bridge

Sixty-three feet long, the old bridge was used daily until around 1920 when it was damaged by fire. The damage was superficial, fortunately, and the bridge was repaired and continued to carry traffic over Coldwater Creek until it was replaced by a concrete structure in the modern era.

The Coldwater Covered Bridge then became the focus of a noteworthy local preservation effort which culminated in 1990 when it was moved to its present location at Oxford Lake Park and carefully restored. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, it is one of the best preserved and most accessible covered bridges in Alabama.

To learn more, please visit www.exploresouthernhistory.com/coldwater.

Students at the British School at Athens (1918-23)

Students admitted under Alan Wace:

• Harold Collingham: 1919-20 (Craven Student). Queens' College, Cambridge.
  
• M. Tierney: 1919-20. University of Ireland.
  
• Arnold Walter Lawrence (1900-91): 1919-20 (Craven Fund); 1921-22; 1924-25 (Craven Fellow). New College, Oxford. [ODNB]
  
• J.B. Hutton: 1920-21 (Carnegie Trustees).
  
• Frank Laurence Lucas (1894-1967): 1920-21 (School Student). Trinity College, Cambridge [ODNB]
  
• Bernard Ashmole (1894-1988): 1920-21, 1921-22 (Craven Fellow). Hertford College, Oxford. [ODNB]
• Henry Theodore Wade Gery (1888-1972): 1920-21; 1921-22, 1922-23. New College, Oxford. [DBC]
  
• J.J.E. Hondius: 1920-21 (Foreign Student). University of Utrecht.
  
• C.A. Boethius: 1920-21, 1921-22 (Foreign Student). University of Upsala.
  
• L.ilian Chandler (Mrs Batey): 1920-21 (Gustav Sachs Memorial Studentship). University of Sheffield.
  
• Mary A.B. Herford (Mrs Gustav E.K. Braunholtz): 1920-21. University of Manchester; Somerville College, Oxford.
  
• Winifred Lamb (1894-1963): 1920-21; 1921-22, 1922-23, 1923-24, 1924-25, 1927-28, 1928-29, 1929-30, 1930-31. Newnham College, Cambridge. [ODNB]
  
• M.A. Hondius-Van Haeften: 1920-21 (Foreign Student). University of Utrecht.
  
• Walter Abel Heurtley (1882-1955): 1921-22, 1922-23. Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge; Oxford (Diploma of Archaeology). [DBC]
  
• Richard Wyatt Hutchinson (1894-1970): 1921-22; 1930-31. St John's College, Cambridge. [DBC]
  
• J.E. Scott: 1921-22. Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
  
• E. Smith: 1921-22 (Foreign Student). University of Christiana.
  
• A. Smith (Mrs E. Smith): 1921-22 (Foreign Student). University of Christiana.
• E. Kjellberg: 1921-22 (Foreign Student). University of Lund.
  
• J. Waldis: 1921-22 (Foreign Student). University of Zurich.
  
• G. Snijder: 1921-22 (Foreign Student). University of Utrecht.
  
• John Bell (1890-1958): 1922-23. Balliol College, Oxford. [Obituary: The Times 9 May 1958]
  
• Stewart Studdert Clarke (1897-1924): 1922-23, 1923-24 (Craven Fellow). Balliol College, Oxford. Drowned off Salamis. [Obituary: The Times 6 May 1924]
• Bertrand Leslie Hallward (1901-2003): 1922-23 (School Student). [ODNB]
  
• Duncan Campbell MacGregor (c. 1889-1939): 1922-23. Edinburgh University; Trinity College, Oxford. [Obituary: The Times 14 March 1939]
• Jocelyn Mary Pybus (Mrs A.M. Woodward) (d. 1974): 1922-23. Newnham College, Cambridge.
  
• A.G. Russell: 1922-23 (Sachs Student). University of Liverpool.
  
• Charles Theodore Seltman (1886-1957): 1922-23 (Prendergast Student). Queens' College, Cambridge. [DBC]
  
• O.J. Todd: 1922-23. University of British Columbia.
  
• J. Webb: 1922-23. University of Melbourne.
  

Assistant Directors: The Inter-War Years

The Assistant Directors were:

• Stanley Casson: 1920-23. [DBC]
  
• Walter Abel Heurtley: 1923-33. [DBC]
  
• Romilly James Heald Jenkins: 1933 (Senior Student). [Obituary: The Times 9 October 1969]
  
• Arthur Hubert Stanley ('Peter') Megaw: 1934 (Senior Student and Librarian); 1935-36. [Obituary: The Times 4 August 2006]
  
• Thomas James Dunbabin: 1936-46 (Deputy Director from 1939). [DBC]
  

Cambridge: Heurtley, Jenkins, Megaw.
Oxford: Casson, Dunbabin.

Directors: The Inter-War Years

The Directors of the BSA during the period 1918-1945 were:

• Alan John Bayard Wace: 1914-23. [ODNB]
  
• Arthur Maurice Woodward: 1923-29. [DBC]
  
• Humfry Gilbert Garth Payne: 1929-36. [ODNB]
  
• Alan Albert Antisdel Blakeway: 1936. [DBC]
• Gerard Mackworth Young (Mackworth-Young from 1947): 1936-46. [ODNB]
  

Cambridge: Wace, Young.
Oxford: Woodward, Payne, Blakeway.

We Will Remember Them

It is the 90th anniversary of the end of the First World War. Seven former students of the BSA were killed: two at Gallipoli and five on the Western Front.

Stanley Casson served on the Western Front in the East Lancashire Regiment; he was wounded in May 1915. In 1916 he joined the General Staff in Salonica and served on the Allied Control Commission in Thessaly (1917). At the end of the war he served in Constantinople and Turkestan until he was demobilised in 1919. He was Assistant Director of the BSA under Alan Wace (1920-22), and Reader in Classical Archaeology at Oxford. He re-enlisted in the Intelligence Corps at the outbreak of the Second World War and served in Holland and Greece rising to the rank of Lt.-Colonel. He was killed on active service in a flying accident on 17 April 1944 and was buried in Newquay.

BSA Corporate Subscriptions (1894-1918)

The re-organisation of the BSA under Cecil Harcourt-Smith brought about an increase in the amount of money attracted from corporate bodies. This income represented around 51% of the total subscriptions for the BSA during this period. The Rules and Regulations stated:

VI. A corporate body subscribing not less than £ 50 a year, for a term of years, shall, during that term, have the right to nominate a member of the Managing Committee.

Representatives from the Hellenic Society and Oxford University on the Managing Committee were joined by a representative from Cambridge (from 1896/97). Each institution then gave £100 per annum (except for the Hellenic Society and Oxford during the First World War).

The BSA was regularly supported by a subscription of £5.5.0 from the Society of Antiquaries of London, and £25 from HRH the Prince of Wales (and after he became King).

Oxford Colleges

• Brasenose College (by 1894/95, £5)
• Christ Church (from 1895/96, £20)
• Corpus Christi College (from 1895/96, £5)
• Magdalen College (from 1895/96, £10)
  

Cambridge Colleges

• Caius College (by 1907/08, £10)
• Emmanuel College (by 1911/12, £5)
  
• King's College (from 1895/96, £10)

Other British Institutions

• Institute of Archaeology, Liverpool (1907/08, £1)
  
• Victoria University of Manchester (by 1909/10, £1.1.0 and increased £6.1.0 [1910/11]; £5 [1912/13, 1913/14, 1914/15, 1916/17, 1917/18])
• University College, Reading (by 1913/14, £1)
  

Canada

• McGill University, Montreal (from 1896/97, £5.5.0)

Information and chart revised 7 August 2008.