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The higher learning in America

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Description: The author advocate restructuring undergraduate education based on 'a course of study consisting of the greatest books of the western world and the arts of reading, writing, thinking, and speaking, together with mathematics, the best exemplar of the processes of human reason.' He argues that the modern specialist is 'cut off from every field but his own, ' but that a liberal arts college experience could provide a basic shared intellectual experience."
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1972.
Call number: 652565
Creator: Hutchins, Robert Maynard (1899-1977)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of The Longo Family Trust, Camilla Longo Mohn, Successor Trustee, 2016.

Interiors 1973-1974

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"Robert Adams recently came across a group of 24 pictures he made in Denver in the early 1970s. These photographs, which informed his later work, are published here for the first time. They offer new insight into the photographer’s way of seeing and thinking about the human condition, the profound influences of which are still being felt generations later"--Publisher's description.

653229

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Anchor Brewery volumes

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HM 82606 - Brewings notebook, Sept. - Decr. 1781. Contemporary limp reversed calf covers; fragile manuscript paper label secured to front cover with wax. Initialed and dated by Barclay. 8x12 cm., 92 pages; laid into volume manuscript page titled "Example" with "Brewed..." on verso. Notebook tabulates the brewery's production on a daily basis from Sept. to Dec. 1781; recording volumes and temperatures for each of the mashing stages and also includes a plan for the daily timings of these processes over several days.

mssHM 82606-82608

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Addicted to suicide : a woman struggling to live

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"This book is about an event that didn't quite take place: my own suicide. Over and over I tried to kill myself, specific acts accompanied by the mounting use of alcohol. ... The trend culminated in the events described in this book. ... The first part is a record of my despair, and at the same time an attempt to exorcise it. ... The second part of the book was written some seven or eight months later and views all of this confusion from the other end of the telescope. It is a record of synthesis, of assembly. Where there was chaos, there is now a pattern. ... I have written about what happened to me because it sheds some light on the processes of mental illness and of suicidal thinking, and we need a lot more light in that still dimly-illuminated room. More important, however, is my hope that somewhere, somehow, my story will give that extra measure of courage to some person struggling in the awful waters of despair"--From preface, dated April 1975.

642445

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Robert Neve Civil War memoir

Manuscripts

Robert Neve wrote this memoir of his time in the war during 1865. In it, he writes about his experience in the battles of Shiloh, Corinth, Chickamauga, and Chattanooga, and his time in the Cumberland General Hospital. The inside front cover is illustrated by clipped images from pictorial stationery. The accompanying annotated transcript was done by John A. Knight in June 1994 but was never published.

mssHM 84011

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Silverberg, Robert. 3 letters (1968-1974) to Literary Guild of America

Manuscripts

The Manuscripts series is arranged alphabetically by author and title. The manuscripts include a selection of Silverberg's literary works, mostly dating from 1973-1995. Included in this series are: novels, anthologies, short stories, novellas, essays, articles, book reviews, interviews, pilot scripts, galley proofs, page proofs, and confirmation proofs. Most of the manuscripts in this series are typed and appear to be close too, if not, the final revision. Some of Silverberg's works found within this series include: Born with the dead, Capricorn games, Galactic dreamers, Gilgamesh the king, How they pass the time in Pelpel, The Nebula awards, New dimensions 2, 6, 7, and 8, Nightwings, Revolt on Alpha C, Sundance and other science fiction stories, and Time gate volume two: Dangerous interfaces. This series also includes manuscripts by other authors, most notably Isaac Asimov, A.A. Attanasio, Gregory Benford, Orson Scott Card, C.J. Cherryh, Ellen Datlow, Tom DeHaven, Samuel R. Delany, Gordon R. Dickson, L. Ron Hubbard, Wolfgang Jeschke, Marc Laidlaw, H.P. Lovecraft, Janet Morris, Larry Niven, Kim Stanley Robinson, Charles Sheffield, S.P. Somtow, Bruce Sterling, Theodore Sturgeon, Harry Turtledove, Jack Vance, and Dave Wolverton. There is also a biography of Philip K. Dick and a copy of his last interview. Some of the manuscripts are too large to be stored with this series and have been placed in oversize boxes 80-89.

SIL 1561-1563

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Manderson, James. Observations on War with America

Manuscripts

The collection consists of correspondence and documents pertaining to the War of 1812 between Great Britain and the United States as reflected in Admiralty reports and memoranda, particularly concerning: strategy and ship deployment of British Admirals Cochrane, Schanck, and others on the American and West Indian stations; the superiority of American over British frigates and attempts to remedy the situation; a little information about the American navy and American military preparedness.

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