Talk:University of Hull

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[edit] Notable academics

I was not sure whether the list of notable academics at the University of Hull was meant to include only contemporary academics, or those who, at one time, taught there. If the latter, we should surely include: Jacob Bronowski Alister Hardy

Also, A.D. B Clarke, or the Department of Psychology, and Professor Gray, of the Chemistry department?ACEO 20:43, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] University ratings

(I'm posting this to all articles on UK universities as so far discussion hasn't really taken off on Wikipedia:WikiProject Universities.)

There needs to be a broader convention about which university rankings to include in articles. Currently it seems most pages are listing primarily those that show the institution at its best (or worst in a few cases). See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Universities#University ratings. Timrollpickering 23:43, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge with The Lawns

YES

Viva-Verdi 01:53, 27 August 2007 (UTC) Hull, 1959-62, History


[edit] Hull University Union

"Hull University Union (HUU) has a reputation of being the best student union in UK" - erm really? Even if this is so isn't this POV? the author claims it won the students union of the year award: i cant find anything to authenticate this claim, no citation and any way it claims that HUU won this award in 2004,what about all the other years??? I'm going to remove this shortly unless anyone has any reason not to? sto_101 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sto 101 (talk • contribs) 18:39, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

The only thing I can find is the union venue Asylum winning the BEDA award for best student venue in 2004. The original was certainly POV either way. --Antinode22 14:46, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Logo?

As far as I can tell, the logo shown on the page for the university is not actually Hull's logo - there is certainly no mention of it on hull.ac.uk. User:Sudonymph Sun 28 Oct, 23:21

Maybe there has been an attempt at improving the establishment's image. Thomas Ferens was not just a benefactor but was the driving force of Hull's getting a university type college. In his honour UCH's motto was "Lampada Ferens" (~carry the torch) but the HU site now seems not to mention that. Google does find the motto in association with the University. Perhaps this explains the "lost" logo.--SilasW (talk) 17:32, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Almost a reversion

"of" was stuck in after "comprise" and two verbs with "each" as the subject lost their "s"s. Now reset to be as originally written.--SilasW (talk) 14:06, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

Let me try again. "of" has reappeared after comprise (though "Student life and activities" has never had it).
"Each" is singular and takes verbs in the singular form, e.g.
Each of the other halls, which were [plural as subject is "the other halls"]...., was [singular as subject is "each"].
The standard of English (part of the article seems verb-less) matches that of the Hull lecturer I had who talked of "the refractive indice" (pronounced trisyllabically: in-di-see) idiosyncratically back-formed from "indices", the mathematical/scientific plural of "index".--SilasW (talk) 19:16, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Clean-up only partial

The more was read the less was comprehended for subjectless verbs and subjects lost in later sentences. More to come D (& AD) V.--SilasW (talk) 13:55, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Plural or Singular Verb

Do you disagree with these constuctions?
There is a man with a dog in the street. There are a man and a dog in the street.
I think a new "is" in the article should be set back to "are"--SilasW (talk) 20:34, 11 February 2008 (UTC)