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  • Augsburg's Action Drawing

    Augsburg's Action Drawing

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    One set of drawing cards entitled Augsburg's Action Drawing, printed by the Educational Publishing Co., Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1850. This set is subtitled "Set II. The Deer," and was designed to "aid in the teaching of Action Drawing ... in connection with the chapter on Action Drawing in Book I of Augsburg's Drawing." The 14 cards contain simple outlines of a deer in various poses; each image--white on a black background--covers half a card. Each card bears a number in the lower right-hand corner.

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    Blue City

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    "In 1946, after many years' absence, John Weather returns to Blue City to find his father--the one-time Mayor--had been murdered on the street two years before. For political reasons among the conflicting forces which now rule the place, the murder has been hushed up and the murderer never found. The City as Weather finds it on his return, is one of evil and corruption, and corruption, as he also discovers, is something which once injected into a political organism is bound to spread. And this is what has happened in Blue City which is rotting from the top. It is an ugly City now, too ugly even for the men and women who have made it that way, and its corruption revolts John Weather into action on its own terms. Kenneth Millar writes with uncompromising toughness and spares us no reality. His world is one of brutal values; his people without pity or remorse. But this is not toughness for the sake of toughness. It is a harsh and vivid picture of a brutal side of life, focused before us with pitiless clarity like a sudden light in a shameful room. And in the nakedness of its tearing reality and in a manner which is not easily forgotten, we are faced with the fearful implications of these people's lives, and a lingering disturbance for some sort of truth which they contain"--Dust jacket.

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    As William James said : extracts from the published writings of William James

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    The individual -- The inwardness of life -- Heroism and the gospel of action -- The moral life -- Good and evil -- Education and practical wisdom -- Friends and friendship -- Appraisals of personality -- Art and literature -- Nature -- Travel notes -- National traits -- History and politics -- War and peace -- Human nature -- Faith -- Religion -- Death and immortality -- God -- The philosopher -- Knowledge and truth -- Freedom -- Reality.

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    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (1989)

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    Science, Technology and Society Program. Lectures entitled: Communications Satellites as a Trade Issue; Space Commercialization: Myth and Reality; Getting into Space: Rockets and Shuttle; A New Launch Vehicle for Space?; The Rocky Road to Communication Satellites; Towards a New Space Policy; and Is There a Future for Communication Satellites?

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    Correspondence and papers relevant to the book Herbert Heaton's Scholar in Action

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    A collection of 9,601 items from 1786 to 1973, which consists of professional and personal material related to Edwin Francis Gay's life and multifaceted career. The collection documents his career in the civil service, at Harvard University, the New York Evening Post, and the Huntington Library; there are also some papers related to the National Bureau of Economic Research. Subjects include European economic recovery after World War I; international economic relations after World War II; United States business; and Gay's voluminous research notes on European and American economic history. Also included are Gay's notes on the Temple family papers in the Stowe collection at the Huntington Library and correspondence and papers relative to Herbert Heaton's book Scholar in action : Edwin Francis Gay (Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1952). The collection also includes business, family and personal correspondence, documents, genealogy, printed material, photographs, clippings, and ephemera. Also present is Woodrow Wilson telegram to Edwin Francis Gay, 1919 September 17 (GY 3292) in Box 124.

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  • A map of the country in Which the army under Lt. General Burgoyne acted in the campaign of 1777 : sheWing the marches of the army & the places of the principal actions / draWn by Mr. Medcalfe & engraved by Wm. Faden

    A map of the country in Which the army under Lt. General Burgoyne acted in the campaign of 1777 : sheWing the marches of the army & the places of the principal actions / draWn by Mr. Medcalfe & engraved by Wm. Faden

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    Kashnor notes, "The route shoWs the passage doWn Lake Champlain to CroWn Point, then south to Ticonderoga, from Whence Burgoyne passed through South Bay to Skeneboro, Which he reached on the 6th of July, and fought the engagement at Fort Ann, on Wood Creek, on 8th July. He is shoWn to have crossed the Hudson at Fort EdWard, and to have reached Half Moon of the MohaWk, but had fought an engagement at Freeman's Farm on Sept. 19, the action at Braemus Heights is dated Oct. 7th, and the final action at Saratoga, 10th October. It Was a famous march, but to have attacked 20,000 men With a force of only 5,000 could have only had one result, and Burgoyne surrendered to Gates on October 17." Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS note: 848.

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