John Carnegie Eaton was educated at the University of Glasgow and graduated with an MA in 1937 with honours in mathematics and natural philosophy. He went on to serve as lecturer, 1950-1966, and later senior lecturer, 1966-1972, in the Department of Mathematics at the Royal Technical College, Glasgow (later the University of Strathclyde). He was a member of the Court and Senate of the University of Strathclyde and a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. He also played a leading part in the campaign to establish the University of Stirling.
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Diary; papers relating to organisation of Royal College of Science and Technology; papers on expenditure of university libraries; papers relating to proposed University of East Stirlingshire; papers relating to campaign to receive benefits from Carnegie United Kingdom Trust; papers relating to educational endowments and bursaries; articles by Eaton; list of College portraits.
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Includes staff representation on governing body, status of technical university, comparisons with other universities on spending, student numbers etc.
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Includes background papers relating to library expenditure assembled in 1978 by Charles G. Wood, Librarian, University of Strathclyde.
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Includes copy minutes, agendas and correspondence of the trustees of the Proposed University of East Stirlingshire Trust Fund, and the first report of the Academic Planning Board of Stirling University.
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Refers to the Royal Technical College, Glasgow as a symbol of quality.
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Article by J.C. Eaton and R. White. Reprinted from International Road Safety and Traffic Revue, Vol. VIII, No. 3, Summer 1960.
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Donald Pack was Professor of Mathematics, 1953-1982, and Vice-Principal, 1968-1972, at the University of Strathclyde.
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Paper by J.C. Eaton and D.C. Pack.
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Comprises Educational Endowments (Scotland) Act 1882 accounts order, 1912; Educational Endowments (Scotland) Act 1928 accounts order, 1931; Educational Endowments (Scotland) Bills, 1928, 1931.
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Relates to relief from poor and school rates.
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