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Book Bulletin of the American Iris Society

Download or read book Bulletin of the American Iris Society written by American Iris Society and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cornell Alumni News

Download or read book The Cornell Alumni News written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalog of Copyright Entries  Third Series

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1975 with total page 1760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of Cornell

    Book Details:
  • Author : Morris Bishop
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2014-10-15
  • ISBN : 0801455375
  • Pages : 692 pages

Download or read book A History of Cornell written by Morris Bishop and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cornell University is fortunate to have as its historian a man of Morris Bishop's talents and devotion. As an accurate record and a work of art possessing form and personality, his book at once conveys the unique character of the early university—reflected in its vigorous founder, its first scholarly president, a brilliant and eccentric faculty, the hardy student body, and, sometimes unfortunately, its early architecture—and establishes Cornell's wider significance as a case history in the development of higher education. Cornell began in rebellion against the obscurantism of college education a century ago. Its record, claims the author, makes a social and cultural history of modern America. This story will undoubtedly entrance Cornellians; it will also charm a wider public. Dr. Allan Nevins, historian, wrote: "I anticipated that this book would meet the sternest tests of scholarship, insight, and literary finish. I find that it not only does this, but that it has other high merits. It shows grasp of ideas and forces. It is graphic in its presentation of character and idiosyncrasy. It lights up its story by a delightful play of humor, felicitously expressed. Its emphasis on fundamentals, without pomposity or platitude, is refreshing. Perhaps most important of all, it achieves one goal that in the history of a living university is both extremely difficult and extremely valuable: it recreates the changing atmosphere of time and place. It is written, very plainly, by a man who has known and loved Cornell and Ithaca for a long time, who has steeped himself in the traditions and spirit of the institution, and who possesses the enthusiasm and skill to convey his understanding of these intangibles to the reader." The distinct personalities of Ezra Cornell and first president Andrew Dickson White dominate the early chapters. For a vignette of the founder, see Bishop's description of "his" first buildings (Cascadilla, Morrill, McGraw, White, Sibley): "At best," he writes, "they embody the character of Ezra Cornell, grim, gray, sturdy, and economical." To the English historian, James Anthony Froude, Mr. Cornell was "the most surprising and venerable object I have seen in America." The first faculty, chosen by President White, reflected his character: "his idealism, his faith in social emancipation by education, his dislike of dogmatism, confinement, and inherited orthodoxy"; while the "romantic upstate gothic" architecture of such buildings as the President's house (now Andrew D. White Center for the Humanities), Sage Chapel, and Franklin Hall may be said to "portray the taste and Soul of Andrew Dickson White." Other memorable characters are Louis Fuertes, the beloved naturalist; his student, Hugh Troy, who once borrowed Fuertes' rhinoceros-foot wastebasket for illicit if hilarious purposes; the more noteworthy and the more eccentric among the faculty of succeeding presidential eras; and of course Napoleon, the campus dog, whose talent for hailing streetcars brought him home safely—and alone—from the Penn game. The humor in A History of Cornell is at times kindly, at times caustic, and always illuminating.

Book Wid s Year Book

Download or read book Wid s Year Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Genealogy and History of the Daniel Dodd Family in America  1646 1940

Download or read book Genealogy and History of the Daniel Dodd Family in America 1646 1940 written by Allison Dodd and published by . This book was released on with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book To Have and to Hold

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  • Author : Mary, Johnston
  • Publisher : Aegitas
  • Release : 2016-09-26
  • ISBN : 1773130412
  • Pages : 259 pages

Download or read book To Have and to Hold written by Mary, Johnston and published by Aegitas. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Have and to Hold (1899) is a novel by American author Mary Johnston. It was the bestselling novel in the United States in the following year (1900). To Have and to Hold is the story of an English soldier, Ralph Percy, turned Virginian explorer iIPn colonial Jamestown. Ralph buys a wife for himself - a girl named Jocelyn Leigh - little knowing that she is the escaping ward of King James I, fleeing a forced marriage to Lord Carnal. Jocelyn hardly loves Ralph - indeed, she seems to abhor him. Carnal, Jocelyn's husband-to-be, eventually comes to Jamestown, unaware that Ralph Percy and Jocelyn Leigh are man and wife. Lord Carnal attempts to kidnap Jocelyn several times and eventually follows Ralph, Jocelyn, and their two companions - Jeremy Sparrow, the Separatist minister, and Diccon, Ralph's servant - as they escape from the King's orders to arrest Ralph and carry Jocelyn back to England. The boat they are in, however, crashes on a desert island, but they are accosted by pirates, who, after a short struggle, agree to take Ralph as their captain, after he pretends to be the pirate "Kirby". The pirates gleefully play on with Ralph's masquerade, until he refuses to allow them to rape and pillage those aboard Spanish ships. The play is up when the pirates see an English ship off the coast of Florida. Ralph refuses to fire upon it, knowing it carries the new Virginian governor, Sir Francis Wyatt, but the pirates open fire, and Jeremy Sparrow, before the English ship can be destroyed, purposefully crashes the ship into a reef. The pirates are all killed, but the Englishmen (and woman) are rescued by the Governor's ship.

Book The Cornell Alumni News

Download or read book The Cornell Alumni News written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Governing Academia

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  • Author : Ronald G. Ehrenberg
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2016-10-01
  • ISBN : 1501704753
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book Governing Academia written by Ronald G. Ehrenberg and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public concern over sharp increases in undergraduate tuition has led many to question why colleges and universities cannot behave more like businesses and cut their costs to hold tuition down. Ronald G. Ehrenberg and his coauthors assert that understanding how academic institutions are governed provides part of the answer. Factors that influence the governance of academic institutions include how states regulate higher education and govern their public institutions; the size and method of selection of boards of trustees; the roles of trustees, administrators, and faculty in shared governance at campuses; how universities are organized for fiscal and academic purposes; the presence or absence of collective bargaining for faculty, staff, and graduate student assistants; pressures from government regulations, donors, insurance carriers, athletic conferences, and accreditation agencies; and competition from for-profit providers. Governing Academia, which covers all these aspects of governance, is enlightening and accessible for anyone interested in higher education. The authors are leading academic administrators and scholars from a wide range of fields including economics, education, law, political science, and public policy.

Book Self knowledge and Self identity

Download or read book Self knowledge and Self identity written by Sydney Shoemaker and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Accepted

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  • Author : A Jose Rojas Ph D
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-08
  • ISBN : 9781086806441
  • Pages : 66 pages

Download or read book Accepted written by A Jose Rojas Ph D and published by . This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn the secrets to a success college application and how to get accepted into your top choice dream school! This book provides insight from experts in the college admissions process at the most prestigious and selective colleges and universities. Maybe you're just starting your college application prep, maybe you're a concerned parent hoping to steer your child to the Ivy League, or maybe you're simply a high school freshman hoping to set yourself on the path to educational greatness -whatever your reasons for picking up this book, we're thrilled to take this ride together. Let's rock this! In these pages you'll find: Hundreds of easy-to-follow tips, FAQs, essay strategies, and SAT/ACT advice to get you ready for the big test. Real experiences from Professors, Deans, Presidents, and alumni who have successfully navigated or evaluated applications at Princeton, Yale, MIT, Harvard, Columbia, UC Berkeley, CalTech, Stanford, and more! Stats for applicants, methods to increase the likelihood you'll gain acceptance to your dream school, tips on choosing the dream school, and real data from people who really are and have been making decisions at the best schools. Information on how to afford paying for school at these expensive and elite schools. A chapter on how to navigate the Common App used by most noteworthy schools. And so much more! Dr. Rojas has a Ph.D. from MIT and is a college professor who has served on several admissions committees, helped coach countless students to success, and has real life experience both as an applicant to elite schools and on the other side - helping decide which students to admit!

Book Disco

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bill Bernstein
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016-11-22
  • ISBN : 9781909526235
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Disco written by Bill Bernstein and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The deluxe edition of Disco: The Bill Bernstein Photographs is limited to 100 signed and numbered copies. This collector's item includes a signed photograph exclusive to this edition and is presented in a bespoke slipcase. Containing many previously unpublished photographs, Disco takes the viewer on an access-all-areas tour of late-'70s New York nightlife. "Who were these people of the night...? It was the Posers. The Watchers. The Posers watching other Posers watching the Watchers, watching the Dancers, watching themselves." Bernstein's eye was drawn to the characters that lived for the night, rather than the celebrities, the unknown men and women who were transformed by the nightclub haze, and this is one reason his photographs from this time feel so authentic and immersive.

Book The House of Life

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mario Praz
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9781888173550
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The House of Life written by Mario Praz and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Telephone and Telegraph Equipment

Download or read book Telephone and Telegraph Equipment written by Defense Logistics Services Center (U.S.). and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Author Catalog

Download or read book Author Catalog written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rare Early American Furniture

Download or read book Rare Early American Furniture written by Samuel T. Freeman & Co and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rare Early American Furniture

Download or read book Rare Early American Furniture written by Samuel T. Freeman & Co and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: