J.R.R. Tolkien: the Forest and the City (2013), edited by Helen Conrad-O’Briain and Gerard Hynes.

J.R.R. Tolkien: the Forest and the City (2013), edited by Helen Conrad-O’Briain and Gerard Hynes. Book Review by Kelley M. Wickham-Crowle

Faunistic studies

An update on the work undertaken by the authors, Macan and Hynes, over the past year. Macan provides details of additional work undertaken since his publication of faunistic work on adult animals, including details on additional field data, further developments of the conclusions intially drawn and further comparisons with fauna of the highlands of Scotland. Two histograms are provided showing succession of Corixidae in two separate waterbodies. Habitat conditions are also discussed for this species and a number of locations are mentioned including, Blelham Tarn, Derwentwater and Rusland Moss. An update on stonefly work undertaken by Hynes is provided, specifically stomach contents of nymphs and habitat preference. Details are also given of aquatic insects being breed by the staff for research

Advancing the Search for Compromise: A Response to Professor Hynes

The contractarian and fiduciary-based positions of the Revised Uniform Partnership Act (RUPA) and the observation that RUPA is internally contradictory and does not consistently adopt either position are discussed. Professor Hynes\u27 discussion of the waivability of fiduciary duties under RUPA is critiqued

Two Poems by Maureen Hynes

Poetry by Maureen Hynes

Land grant to Andrew Hynes, signed by Benjamin Harrison June 1, 1782

Land grant to Andrew Hynes, signed by Benjamin Harrison of Virginia. Document grants 400 acres of land to Andrew Hynes, June 1, 1782.https://digitalcommons.wofford.edu/littlejohnmss/1076/thumbnail.jp

Alea III International Composition Competition Concert, September 14, 1991

This is the concert program of the Alea III International Composition Competition Concert on Saturday, September 14, 1991 at 7:00 p.m., at the Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Avenue. Works performed were String Quartet No. 1 by Andrew List, L'ombre Du M. Haller by MG Hynes, Rajas by Corrado Vitale, Octette by Yong Yang, Soft Voices in the Memory by David Pickel, Vera Quartet by Michael Lapidakis, Incoronato Poeta by Christophe Looten, memory places by Katharine Norman, Konzertstück II by Michael Goleminov. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Humanities Library Endowed Fund

Immunomodulatory properties of induced pluripotent stem cell-derived mesenchymal cells

Abstract not availableJia Ng, Kim Hynes, Gregory White, Kisha Nandini Sivanathan, Kate Vandyke, Peter Mark Bartold and Stan Grontho

Closest to the Heart – The Life of Emerson Hynes: A Biographical Study of Human Goodness with a Focus on the College Years

This study examined human goodness as lived through the life of Emerson Hynes with a focus on the college years. Emerson Hynes was an ethics and sociology professor at St. John’s University during the 1940s and 50s before he became legislative assistant to Senator Eugene McCarthy. He cared deeply about ethics and was a leader in family life, teaching, rural life and the National Catholic Rural Life Conference, publications, advising, and legislative work. Influenced by Rev. Virgil Michel and the Benedictines, Hynes was a proponent of Catholic social justice, personalism, and distributism. He lived by an ethic of conversation and philosophy of the soil, and promoted flourishing rural life as the best possibility for a healthy society and culture. Primary research methods were biographical, historical, and social science portraiture. Biographical methods were influenced by John Shoup’s synthesis on influences of exemplary leadership. Historical methods included archival research, oral histories, geography of place, and writings by Hynes. Portraiture methodology was attentive to context, voice, and relationship in order for themes of goodness to emerge to illuminate the aesthetic whole. An overview of the life of Hynes is provided. The study then focused on three aspects of Hynes’s college years at St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota: the influence and mentorship of Rev. Virgil Michel, his formal education, and his rich extracurricular life. These three key influences intertwine with the purposeful nature and ethical outlook of Hynes’s adult life. Five reflective themes emerged: a philosophy of the soil – the soil that brings forth food to feed all beings and is the basis of growth for the oxygen all beings breathe – as foundational for all activity of life including love, ethics, and relationships; the importance of mentorship and its unique possibilities in the college years and implications for college teachers; a pedagogy of student engagement and conversation as a primary platform toward supporting transformational learning in the ethical realm; an ethic of conversation as fundamentally necessary toward action in the world; and accessing human goodness as an approach to support human flourishing

Book Reviews

Book reviews by Leon L. Lancaster, Jr., Jack C. Hynes, James J. Kearney, Joseph F. Nigro, Louis P. Da Pra, and Francis Bright