festschrift

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"Ethical Dimesnions of a Globalising Economy" Potter festschrift - 2002 113

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  1. noun A volume of learned articles or essays by colleagues and admirers, serving as a tribute or memorial especially to a scholar.

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  • Where they experience works of literature as games, pushing at the borders of their knowledge and experience by engaging the library with others as a festschrift….
  • I was asked last year, by my good friend Professor John Frame, to contribute to a forthcoming festschrift to honor his lifetime of work and teaching. —  John H Armstrong
  • Intellectual Freedom Committee has published a festschrift for Gordon Conable and added a casebookon privacy and copyright issues to its annual series. —  ALA Weblog Service
  • Intellectual Freedom Committee: published festschrift for Gordon Conable, casebooks available this years, privacy and copyright issues, IF manual aiming for publication in 2010, publicizing "Privacy Revolution" with door hanger —  ALA Weblog Service
  • "Ethical Dimesnions of a Globalising Economy" Potter festschrift - 2002 113 —  An accidental blog
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  1. German : Fest, festival; see fest + Schrift, writing (from Middle High German schrift, from Old High German scrift, from scrīban, to write, from Latin scrībere; see skrībh- in Indo-European roots).
 

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