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Record W750411916

Harry Loewen: A Tribute

2003· review· en· W750411916 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Paul Tiessen

Bibliographic record

Venue˜The œMennonite quarterly review · 2003
Typereview
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCanadian Identity and History
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTributeHistoryClassicsLiberal arts educationMedia studiesSociologyArt historyLawHigher educationPolitical science
DOInot available

Abstract

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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When I arrived as an undergraduate at Mennonite Brethren College of Arts in Winnipeg in 1964-65, only a year or two after Rudy Wiebe had been delicately shown road out of town, I did have a vague inkling that the sixties had begun, but I had little language to give shape to my hunches. It was immediately apparent to me that the sixties (whatever they might turn out to be) had not much made their way into faculty ranks at college. However, there was much whispering among some of my fellow undergrads about one Harry Loewen--a faculty member in his mid-30s who taught one course part-time, and that one course only once a week, and then only in evening--who was beginning to lift lid on things at least a crack, to let light fall where it might. The following year this Harry Loewen was given a full-time position at Mennonite Brethren college, and strategic and warm support that he increasingly gave to undergrad students at college during that time of great cultural transition became increasingly well known. He somehow found a means to give enthusiastic counsel and confidence to very generation that was finding a way of shaping the sixties. To be sure, after two or three years of teaching at college, and with little resistance from administration, he was himself trying to find a way out of town! All while working on his M.A. and Ph.D. studies at Universities of Manitoba and Waterloo, respectively, Harry had become eminently ready for a job offer that came from Wilfrid Laurier University (then called Waterloo Lutheran University) in Waterloo, Ontario. He taught at Wilfrid Laurier in German Department for ten years, from 1968 to 1978, serving also as department's chair. I joined Wilfrid Laurier University faculty in 1974 and recall our colleagues' enthusiastic response to Professor Loewen's expanding publishing record, that by then included his first two books, Goethe's Response to Protestantism (1972) and Luther and Radicals (1974). The opportunity that drew Harry into center of Mennonite literary studies came in 1978, when he was invited to occupy first Chair in Mennonite Studies at University of Winnipeg--in very town he had left a decade before. He threw his energy and talent into setting up Mennonite Studies program at University of Winnipeg and, by 1983, establishing and editing Journal of Mennonite Studies, a very successful scholarly forum. …

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.941
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.001
Bibliometrics0.0000.002
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.007

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.

Opus teacher head0.041
GPT teacher head0.323
Teacher spread0.282 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreReview

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".

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