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Benjamin Smith Lyman: Geologist At The Intersection Of Hokkaido, Japan, And The United States, Benjamin Ashby

Masters Theses

Benjamin Smith Lyman was a geologist from Northampton, Massachusetts, who was contracted by the Japanese government in 1872 to carry out coal surveys on the island of Hokkaidō 北海道. What started out as a standard geological survey, quickly evolved into a lifelong interest in Japan for Lyman. The large collection of letters, books, photographs, and other documents housed under the Benjamin Smith Lyman Collection at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, serve as a primary source on both early relations between the Japanese and the West and the beginnings of the large network of academic writings which today can be classified …

"At The Peril Of Our Lives": Race, Citizenship, And Philadelphia's 1793 Yellow Fever Epidemic., Abigail Posey

College of Arts & Sciences Senior Honors Theses

The late-eighteenth century was a crucial time for determining the social role of black people in Philadelphia, and Pennsylvania at large. In 1780, the state legislature began a gradual abolition process that contributed to a growing free Black population in the city, while many other Black Philadelphians remained in bondage. Their livelihoods remained restricted by anti-Black laws that contributed to the overall poor health of Black Philadelphians. As the yellow fever epidemic began in 1793, Philadelphia’s medical community supported racist scientific myths that Black people possessed a natural immunity to yellow fever. In an agreement with the city and Dr. …

A Theodicy Of Redemptive Suffering In African American Involvement Led By Absalom Jones And Richard Allen In The Philadelphia Yellow Fever Epidemic Of 1793, Kyle Boone

Undergraduate Student Scholarship – History

This paper is a historical investigation into the involvement of African Americans during the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793. It explores key figures, details, medical realities, and media representation. The particular focus lies on the dilemma of suffering in the world and how the African American understanding of evil in this community led to their decision of involvement. Their understanding of theodicy will be weighed against modern philosophical and theological attempts to deal with theodicy.

Prodigal Sons, Trap Doors, And Painted Women: Reflections On Life Stories, Urban Legends, And Aural History, Charles Hardy

History Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Ariel - Volume 11 Number 6, Sam Markind, Aaron Bleznak

Ariel

Executive Editors

Ellen Feldman

Leonardo S. Nasca, Jr.

Business Managers

Alex Macones

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Hugh A. Gelabert

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Aaron D. Bleznak

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Joan M. Greco

Editorial Page Editor

Samuel Markind

Photography Editor

Todd L. Demmy

Sports Editor

Paul F. Mansfield

Commons Editor

Saul I. Helfing

Ariel - Volume 11 Number 5, Saul Helfing, David Polin, Jeff Greenwald, Steve Edmundowicz, Kevin Hardy, Allan Cummings

Ariel

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Ellen Feldman

Leonardo S. Nasca, Jr.

Business Managers

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News Editor

Hugh A. Gelabert

Features Editor

Aaron D. Bleznak

CAHS Editor

Joan M. Greco

Editorial Page Editor

Samuel Markind

Photography Editor

Todd L. Demmy

Sports Editor

Paul F. Mansfield

Commons Editor

Saul I. Helfing

Ariel - Volume 11 Number 2, Jeff Greenwald, Ayn Siegal, Dave Polis, Rich Freeman, Lenny Nasca, Carl Shanholtz, Gretchen H. Shapero, Rick Buyalos, Andy Curtin, Paul F. Mansfield, Howie Fugate

Ariel

Executive Editors

Ellen Feldman

Leonardo S. Nasca, Jr.

Business .Managers

Barbara L. Davies

Martin B. Getzow

News Editor

Aaron D. Bleznak

Features Editor

Hugh A. Gelabert

CAHS Editor

Joan M. Greco

Editorial Page Editor

Samuel Markind

Photography Editor

Leonardo S. Nasca, Jr.

Sports Editor

Paul F. Mansfield

Ariel - Volume 8 Number 5, R. S. Moberg, George Greasy, Neeraj Kanwal, Nicholas Tepe, Patrick Sokas, Jim Spigel, Jim Sechler, Martin Trichtinger, Shahab Minassian, Doug Jenkins

Ariel

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James W. Lockard. Jr.

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Neeraj K. Kanwal

University News

Martin Trichtinger

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Doug Hiller

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Elizabeth A. McGuire

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Shahab S. Minassian

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Edward H. Jasper

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Brenda Peterson

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Robert D. Lehman, Jr.

Graphics

Christine M. Kuhnle

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 27, No. 2, James Moss, Holly Cutting Baker, Robert A. Barakat, Karl J. R. Arndt

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Gentlemen of the Road: Outlaw-Heroes of Early Pennsylvania in Life & Legend
• Patent Medicine in Pennsylvania Before 1906: A History Through Advertising
• Raising a Tobacco Shed
• Bicentennial Exhibitions and Publications in Germany
• Work and Work Attitudes: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 50

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 27, No. 1, Monroe H. Fabian, William T. Parsons, Robert F. Ulle, Karl J. R. Arndt, Barbara Reimensnyder

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Sulfur Inlay in Pennsylvania German Furniture
• "Orders What's to be Done at the Plantation": The Isaac Norris Farm Accounts, 1713-1734
• Blacks in Berks County, Pennsylvania: The Almshouse Records
• Teach, Preach, or Weave Stockings? The Trilemma of a Pennsylvania Scholar
• Annotated Bibliography of Pennsylvania Folk Medicine
• Pictures in the Home: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 49

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 23, No. 4, Scott Hambly, Waln K. Brown, Denis Mercier, Angela Varesano, Elizabeth Mathias, Don Yoder, Mac E. Barrick, Berton E. Beck, Claude K. Deischer

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Cultural Learning Through Game Structure: A Study of Pennsylvania German Children's Games
• "Nipsy": The Ethnography of a Traditional Game of Pennsylvania's Anthracite Region
• The Game as Creator of the Group in an Italian-American Community
• Pennsylvania Town Views of a Century Ago
• "The Barber's Ghost": A Legend Becomes a Folktale
• Grain Harvesting in the Nineteenth Century
• My Experience With the Dialect
• Harvest on the Pennsylvania Farm: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 34

The Ursinus Weekly, May 12, 1958, Frederick L. Glauser, Arthur King, Philip Sterling Rowe

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

Men's student government election results announced • Rowe president of the Curtain Club; McKey wins award • Mayor discusses juvenile crime • Campus Chest total announced; Chairmen named • Women's dorm elections held; Senators chosen • Men's council completes term; Finishes new rules • Class, MSGA officers selected on Wednesday • "Open door policy" in mental health featured at Forum • Arrival of professors in September announced • "Green back" and machines watched • Editorial: "Customs" • She stoops to conquer • Letters to the editor • How to be a campus intellectual • Martella reaches quarter final in Middle …

Volume 73, Number 12 (December 1955), Guy Mccoy

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

I Heard the Bells

Christmas Concerts at Grand Central

It Shouldn't be a Battle (interview with Otto Harbach)

Soviet Russia's Top Pianist Makes Sensational Début in America

To Cosima—With Love

Great Church Rebuilds Its Organ

Orchestra in the Daily Life of Your School

Music Postage Bill Passes Senate

Professor Mutter's Introductory Lecture Delivered In Jefferson Medical College Of Philadelphia, November 1, 1847., Thomas Dent Mutter, Md

Jefferson Medical College Opening Addresses

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On The Usefulness Of The Medical Profession, Beyond The Limits Of The Profession. A Lecture Introductory To The Course Of Practice Of Medicine In Jefferson Medical College Of Philadelphia, Delivered November 4, 1842., John K. Mitchell, Md

Jefferson Medical College Opening Addresses

No abstract provided.