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Mathematics Is a Gentleman's Art: Analysis and Synthesis in American College Geometry Teaching, 1790-1840 Amy K
Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Retrospective Theses and Dissertations Dissertations 2000 Mathematics is a gentleman's art: Analysis and synthesis in American college geometry teaching, 1790-1840 Amy K. Ackerberg-Hastings Iowa State University Follow this and additional works at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd Part of the Higher Education and Teaching Commons, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Commons, and the Science and Mathematics Education Commons Recommended Citation Ackerberg-Hastings, Amy K., "Mathematics is a gentleman's art: Analysis and synthesis in American college geometry teaching, 1790-1840 " (2000). Retrospective Theses and Dissertations. 12669. https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd/12669 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Dissertations at Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Retrospective Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. INFORMATION TO USERS This manuscript has been reproduced from the microfilm master. UMI films the text directly from the original or copy submitted. Thus, some thesis and dissertation copies are in typewriter face, while others may be from any type of computer printer. The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. Broken or indistinct print, colored or poor quality illustrations and photographs, print bleedthrough, substandard margwis, and improper alignment can adversely affect reproduction. in the unlikely event that the author did not send UMI a complete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. -
Edward Channing's Writing Revolution: Composition Prehistory at Harvard
University of New Hampshire University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository Doctoral Dissertations Student Scholarship Spring 2017 EDWARD CHANNING’S WRITING REVOLUTION: COMPOSITION PREHISTORY AT HARVARD, 1819-1851 Bradfield dwarE d Dittrich University of New Hampshire, Durham Follow this and additional works at: https://scholars.unh.edu/dissertation Recommended Citation Dittrich, Bradfield dwarE d, "EDWARD CHANNING’S WRITING REVOLUTION: COMPOSITION PREHISTORY AT HARVARD, 1819-1851" (2017). Doctoral Dissertations. 163. https://scholars.unh.edu/dissertation/163 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Scholarship at University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Doctoral Dissertations by an authorized administrator of University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. EDWARD CHANNING’S WRITING REVOLUTION: COMPOSITION PREHISTORY AT HARVARD, 1819-1851 BY BRADFIELD E. DITTRICH B.A. St. Mary’s College of Maryland, 2003 M.A. Salisbury University, 2009 DISSERTATION Submitted to the University of New Hampshire in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English May 2017 ii ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ©2017 Bradfield E. Dittrich iii EDWARD CHANNING’S WRITING REVOLUTION: COMPOSITION PREHISTORY AT HARVARD, 1819-1851 BY BRADFIELD E. DITTRICH This dissertation has been has been examined and approved by: Dissertation Chair, Christina Ortmeier-Hooper, Associate Professor of English Thomas Newkirk, Professor Emeritus of English Cristy Beemer, Associate Professor of English Marcos DelHierro, Assistant Professor of English Alecia Magnifico, Assistant Professor of English On April 7, 2017 Original approval signatures are on file with the University of New Hampshire Graduate School. -
The Lawyer's Library in the Early American Republic
University of Chicago Law School Chicago Unbound Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers Working Papers 2012 The Lawyer’s Library in the Early American Republic Alison LaCroix Follow this and additional works at: https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/ public_law_and_legal_theory Part of the Law Commons Chicago Unbound includes both works in progress and final versions of articles. Please be aware that a more recent version of this article may be available on Chicago Unbound, SSRN or elsewhere. Recommended Citation Alison LaCroix, "The Lawyer’s Library in the Early American Republic" (University of Chicago Public Law & Legal Theory Working Paper No. 408, 2012). This Working Paper is brought to you for free and open access by the Working Papers at Chicago Unbound. It has been accepted for inclusion in Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers by an authorized administrator of Chicago Unbound. For more information, please contact [email protected]. CHICAGO PUBLIC LAW AND LEGAL THEORY WORKING PAPER NO. 408 THE LAWYER’S LIBRARY IN THE EARLY AMERICAN REPUBLIC Alison L. LaCroix THE LAW SCHOOL THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO November 2012 This paper can be downloaded without charge at the Public Law and Legal Theory Working Paper Series: http://www.law.uchicago.edu/academics/publiclaw/index.html and The Social Science Research Network Electronic Paper Collection. Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2177007 The Lawyer’s Library in the Early American Republic Alison L. LaCroix* In November 1826, Chief Justice John Marshall wrote a letter to his friend and fellow justice Joseph Story in which he commended Story’s recent address before Harvard’s Phi Beta Kappa society. -
The Proceedings of the Cambridge Historical Society, Volume 11, 1916
The Proceedings of the Cambridge Historical Society, Volume 11, 1916 Table of Contents OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES .......................................................................................5 PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRTY-SEVENTH TO THIRTY-NINTH MEETINGS .............................................................................................7 PAPERS EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS OF THE REVEREND JOSEPH WILLARD, PRESIDENT OF HARVARD COLLEGE, AND OF SOME OF HIS CHILDREN, 1794-1830 . ..........................................................11 By his Grand-daughter, SUSANNA WILLARD EXCERPTS FROM THE DIARY OF TIMOTHY FULLER, JR., AN UNDERGRADUATE IN HARVARD COLLEGE, 1798- 1801 ..............................................................................................................33 By his Grand-daughter, EDITH DAVENPORT FULLER BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF MRS. RICHARD HENRY DANA ....................................................................................................................53 By MRS. MARY ISABELLA GOZZALDI EARLY CAMBRIDGE DIARIES…....................................................................................57 By MRS. HARRIETTE M. FORBES ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TREASURER ........................................................................84 NECROLOGY ..............................................................................................................86 MEMBERSHIP .............................................................................................................89 OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY -
The American Founding and the Federal Era (1785-Early-1800S)
Lesson 4 The American Founding and the Federal Era (1785-early-1800s) Words such as “virtue,” “piety” and “learning” are emphasized in the writings of our Founding Fathers and therefore appear in many of our governmental documents. In fact, when modern political scientists examined seventy-six of the most representative pamphlets and essays written by our Founders, they found the word “virtue” stressed over 300 times.1 Additionally, various synonyms meaning the same thing (such as “religion,” “morality,” and “knowledge”) also frequently appear in official writings (such as in the famous Northwest Ordinance, by which territories become states).2 Significantly, to our Founders, “religion” meant Christianity; “morality” or “virtue” meant Biblical character; and “knowledge” meant information or skills acquired within the framework of a Biblical worldview. The Founders consistently emphasized the elements of religion and morality (or piety and virtue) as the indispensable foundation and supports of our American system of government. They believed that if these pillars were lost, then our nation would eventually collapse. Notice some of their representative declarations affirming this: [I]t is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. 3 [R]eligion and virtue are the only foundations...of republicanism and of all free governments. 4 Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious 5 people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. JOHN ADAMS , SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION [R]eligion and good morals are the only solid foundations of public liberty and happiness. 6 While the people are virtuous, they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue, they will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader. -
Bibliotheca Sacra
Tlte American Republic. 135 ART I C LEV Ill. THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC AND THE DEBS INSURRECTION. BY MR. Z. SWIFT HOLBROOK. THE American Republic is the fruitage of a religious inspiration. Our democratic institutions, ollr notions of lib erty and equality, had their origin with men who practised every form of self-denial, that they might be free from hie rarchical authority and worship God according to the dic tates of conscience. They were not men, like the colony that landed at Jamestown in 1607, moved by the spirit of adventure or by the desire to acquire,-both worthy and useful passions when subordinated to higher ends,-but they came to an unknown land, braving the perils of the sea and enduring the privations incident to such a perilous journey, that they might have freedom to worship God. To what extent these men had caught the inspiration of Luther and had given it a new interpretation, need not here be traced; but the age was one of discovery, of hero ism, of adventure, of awakened intellect,-giving the world the revival of faith, hope, and learning. It was the Eliza bethan Age in literature. It was the period of the centuries when, freed from the bonds of ecclesiastical authority, indi vidualism burst the barriers which had restrained it, and men took on new conceptions of liberty and of individual worth. Man as an individual, a unit, free and independent in his re lations to the unseen, and bound by social compacts only because thus his individualism found higher freedom and fuller .development,-this was the conception that inspired [Jan. -
Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) Inventory Listing the Numerous BEP Historical Postage Stamp Production Folders, 2016
Description of document: Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) inventory listing the numerous BEP historical postage stamp production folders, 2016 Requested date: 19-January-2016 Released date: 01-February-2016 Posted date: 28-March-2016 Source of document: Disclosure Officer Bureau of Engraving and Printing Office of the Chief Counsel - FOIA and Transparency Services 14th & C Streets, SW, Room 419A Washington, D.C. 20228-0001 Fax: (202) 874-2951 The governmentattic.org web site (“the site”) is noncommercial and free to the public. The site and materials made available on the site, such as this file, are for reference only. The governmentattic.org web site and its principals have made every effort to make this information as complete and as accurate as possible, however, there may be mistakes and omissions, both typographical and in content. The governmentattic.org web site and its principals shall have neither liability nor responsibility to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damage caused, or alleged to have been caused, directly or indirectly, by the information provided on the governmentattic.org web site or in this file. The public records published on the site were obtained from government agencies using proper legal channels. Each document is identified as to the source. Any concerns about the contents of the site should be directed to the agency originating the document in question. GovernmentAttic.org is not responsible for the contents of documents published on the website. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY BUREAU OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTING WESTERN CURRENCY FACILITY FORT WORTH, TEXAS 76131 February 1, 2016 FOIA/PA Request No. -
A Century of Mathematics in America, Peter Duren Et Ai., (Eds.), Vol
Garrett Birkhoff has had a lifelong connection with Harvard mathematics. He was an infant when his father, the famous mathematician G. D. Birkhoff, joined the Harvard faculty. He has had a long academic career at Harvard: A.B. in 1932, Society of Fellows in 1933-1936, and a faculty appointmentfrom 1936 until his retirement in 1981. His research has ranged widely through alge bra, lattice theory, hydrodynamics, differential equations, scientific computing, and history of mathematics. Among his many publications are books on lattice theory and hydrodynamics, and the pioneering textbook A Survey of Modern Algebra, written jointly with S. Mac Lane. He has served as president ofSIAM and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Mathematics at Harvard, 1836-1944 GARRETT BIRKHOFF O. OUTLINE As my contribution to the history of mathematics in America, I decided to write a connected account of mathematical activity at Harvard from 1836 (Harvard's bicentennial) to the present day. During that time, many mathe maticians at Harvard have tried to respond constructively to the challenges and opportunities confronting them in a rapidly changing world. This essay reviews what might be called the indigenous period, lasting through World War II, during which most members of the Harvard mathe matical faculty had also studied there. Indeed, as will be explained in §§ 1-3 below, mathematical activity at Harvard was dominated by Benjamin Peirce and his students in the first half of this period. Then, from 1890 until around 1920, while our country was becoming a great power economically, basic mathematical research of high quality, mostly in traditional areas of analysis and theoretical celestial mechanics, was carried on by several faculty members. -
Resolves 1809, C. 1-60
MAINE STATE LEGISLATURE The following document is provided by the LAW AND LEGISLATIVE DIGITAL LIBRARY at the Maine State Law and Legislative Reference Library http://legislature.maine.gov/lawlib Reproduced from scanned originals with text recognition applied (searchable text may contain some errors and/or omissions) Resolves, Of the General Court of Massachusetts, PASSED AT THE SESSION BEGAN AND HOLDEN AT BOSTON, ON THE THIRTY-FIRST DAY OF MAY, IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND NINE. [No title page; caption title provided by Maine State Law and Legislative Reference Library] CIVIL FOR THE YEAR 1809-10. , '. HIS EXCELLENCY CElRlS[OPH~~R GORE, GOVERNOUR .. ~+- HIS HONOUR DAVID COBB, LIEUTENANT .. GOVERNoltR~ , COUNCIL~ Hoil. 'EDWARD H. ROBB1Nq,. AltTEMAS WARD, THOMAS DWIGHT, EP,HRAIM SPOON,ER, Pt{ENTISS l\1ELLEN, QL1VER FISKE, NA THAN1EL DUMMER, .WILLIAM PR,ESCOTT, DANIEL DEWEY.- Wa.L1AM TUDOR, Secretary of the State. JOSIAH DWIGHT', 'IreaJurer and Receiver General. SENATE. Hon. HARRISON G. OTIS, Efq. Prejident. County oj Suffolk, Hon. Harrifon G. Otis, Willianl Spooner, lohn Phillips, ' Peter C. Brooks, John Welles. County of EJ!ex, Hon. Enodl Titcomb, , John Heard, John Phillips, Nathaniel Thurnon, Ifrael Thorndike, Saluuel Putnam. County of Middleje.-<, I-1on. Samuel Dana, Amos Bond, J. L. Tuttle, Matthew Bridge. Courtty of Hamp.fhire, Hon. Ezra Starkweather, H ugh Me Clallen, Eli P. Afhmun, S. Lathrop. County of Brifiol; Hon. Edward Pope, Samuel Fales. County of Plymouth, Hon. Nathan Willis, Seth Sprague. County of Barnflable, Hon. Jofeph Dimmick. Dukes County and Nantucket, Hon. Walter Folger, jun. County of Worcqfier, Hon. Salem Town, Elijah Brigham, Thomas; Hale, Jon~s Kendall" , SENATE. -
Anthony Mann, “How 'Poor Country Boys' Became Boston Brahmins: the Rise of the Appletons and the Lawrences in Ante-Bellum
Anthony Mann, “How ‘poor country boys’ became Boston Brahmins: The Rise of the Appletons and the Lawrences in Ante-bellum Massachusetts” Historical Journal of Massachusetts Volume 31, No. 1 (Winter 2003). Published by: Institute for Massachusetts Studies and Westfield State University You may use content in this archive for your personal, non-commercial use. Please contact the Historical Journal of Massachusetts regarding any further use of this work: [email protected] Funding for digitization of issues was provided through a generous grant from MassHumanities. Some digitized versions of the articles have been reformatted from their original, published appearance. When citing, please give the original print source (volume/ number/ date) but add "retrieved from HJM's online archive at http://www.westfield.ma.edu/mhj. Editor, Historical Journal of Massachusetts c/o Westfield State University 577 Western Ave. Westfield MA 01086 How ‘poor country boys’ became Boston Brahmins: The Rise of the Appletons and the Lawrences in Ante-bellum Massachusetts1 By Anthony Mann The promise of social mobility was a central cultural tenet of the northern American states during the nineteenth century. The stories of those who raised themselves from obscure and humble origins to positions of wealth and status, whilst retaining a sufficiency of Protestant social responsibility, were widely distributed and well received amongst a people daily experiencing the personal instabilities of the market revolution.2 Two families which represented the ideal of social mobility 1 A version of this essay was first read at the conference of the British Association for American Studies, Birmingham, and April 1997. My thanks to Colin Bonwick, Louis Billington, Martin Crawford and Phillip Taylor who have advised since then. -
(Biver0 Anb (Sitts
1906.] Givers and Gifts. 41 (Biver0 anb (Sitts, FROM MEMBERS. ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS, LL. D., Lincoln.—His "John Quincy Adams and Speaker Andrew Stevenson of Virginia." BARTON, EDMUND M., Worcester.—^Two magazines in continxiation; and three photographs. BRIQHAM, CLARENCE S., Providence, R. I.,—"Bpston in 1682 and 1699;" and one broadside. BROOKS, JAMES W., Petersham.—His address on the 150th Anniversary of the incorporation of the town of Petersham. CHASE, CHARLES A., Worcester.—Photograph of the Court Houses on Court Hill, Worcester. COREY, DELORAINE P., Maiden.—His "Memoir of John Ward Dean;" and a bound file of "The Maiden Outlook." DAVIS, ANDREW MCF., Cambridge.—Five of his own publications; six books; and thirty.«ix pamphlets. DAVIS, Hon. EDWARD L., Worcester.—Nineteen books; and seventy- nine pamphlets. GABVER, Rev. AUSTIN S., Worcester.—Six books; and seven pamphlets. GILMAN, DANIEL C, LL. D., Baltimore, Md.—Two of his own publica- tions; and three pamphlets. GREEN, JOHN, LL. D., St. Louis, Mo.—His "Memorial of Henry Hitch- cock, 1829-1902." GREEN, Hon. SAMUEL A., Boston.—^Three of his own publications; twenty-seven books; two hundred and thirteen pamphlets; fifteen engravings; and "The American Journal of Numismatics," in con- tinuation. HUNTINGTON, Rev. WILLIAM R., D.D., New York.—His "Inter^Church or Intra-Church, Which?" JOHNSON, EDWARD F., Wobum.—His "Captain Edward Johnson of Wobum, Mass, and some of his Descendants." LOUBAT, JOSEPH F., LL. D., Paris, France.—The Codex Borgia; one book; and one pamphlet. MATTHEWS, ALBERT, Boston.—His "The Word Palatine in America." 42 American Antiquarian Sodety. [Oct., L, Hon. SAMUEL W., Winchester.—His speech on the Phillipine Tariff biU, 1906. -
Memoir of the Honorable Abbott Lawrence, Prepared for the Aiinnal
M E M O I R O ' ' ' E ' NORABLE ABB '' LA E E O O WR NC , ' RE 'ARE D ' O R ' ' E ‘ aiinn al nximit 65m fi ifl m, ' R E O W I L L I A M ' . S C ' ' , E S ' . E''RAC'ED 'ROM '' E WOR' B' ' ERMISSION O' '' E ''BLIS'E RS ' RIN' E D ' O R ' RI' A' E DIS' RIB' 'ION . 1 856 . M E M O I R . N fol l o wi n I the g pages , we shall endeavor to present a sketch of the life and character of ABBO'' t h LAWRENCE , now that e grave has closed over him , and while his virtues are yet fresh in the memory of his countrymen . The name of LAWRENCE is on e of the earliest to be f found among the Puritan settlers o Massachusetts . L 'ohn awrence , the first emigrant of the name , was 1 635 established in Watertown as early as , and may have come over at the same time with Governor Win hi t hrO . w s p He after ards removed , with wife , to 4 MEMOIR O' n Groton , where he lived to a good old age ; leavi g, at his death , a numerous family of sons and daughters . From o n e of the former was descended the subject o f . L the present memoir His father, Samuel awrence , was a soldier o f the Revolution . On the breaking out - of the war with the mother country , he was among the first to bear arms ; and was on e of the little band of heroes who accompanied Colonel Prescott, and fought ’ by his side at the battle of Bunker s Hill .