Bibliographic record
Abstract
The forerunners of McMaster University -the Canada Baptist College and its successor, the Canadian Literary Institute -were established in 1837 and 1857, the former in the bustling city of Montreal, the latter in the small town of Woodstock, tucked away in the pastoral setting of southwestern Ontario.However, for one reason or another neither Montreal nor Woodstock was selected as the site for McMaster University.Toronto, Ontario's emerging rival to Montreal, was chosen instead.Indeed the competition between the ancient metropolis on the St Lawrence and the new one on Lake Ontario was forcefully personified in William McMaster, the Baptist businessman and financier who in 1887 ' e ft Ae bulk of his million-dollar estate to endow the institution that gratefully took his name.An exemplar of Toronto's growth in mid-Victorian times, this wholesaler, banker, Grit politician, and senator had cherished plans for creating an institution that would provide what he called in his will a 'thoroughly practical Christian course of education.*And what better place to start things off than Toronto, the city that had adopted him as an Irish immigrant and helped make his fortune?Woodstock, the home of the Literary Institute (later renamed Woodstock College), had originally been tipped for the honour, but it lost out to Toronto's superior cultural and intellectual assets.The home of the provincial government and the provincial university, the 'Queen City' also boasted affiliated denominational colleges, reputable private schools, and a burgeoning civic library, not to mention a large Baptist population.After the mid-century a respectable veneer of civilization had descended upon the thriving city on the Humber.Baptist educators, supported by Senator McMaster, reasoned that if Baptist and other Evangelical students were to be educated properly and brought in touch with all that was best and cultured in Ontario then surely they must be tutored in such a setting.They were well aware that Canada's institutions of
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.501 | 0.282 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".