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The Grizzly, November 11, 2004, Lindsey Fund, Lauren A. Perotti, Shannon Burke, Dan Devlin, Marlena M. Mcmahon-Purk, Cecily Macconchie, Laura Bickert, Heather Turnbach, Jared Good, Jade Garcia, Jonathan Gagas, Joseph Davido, Jennifer Cohen, James Texeira, Caitlin Mchugh
The Grizzly, November 11, 2004, Lindsey Fund, Lauren A. Perotti, Shannon Burke, Dan Devlin, Marlena M. Mcmahon-Purk, Cecily Macconchie, Laura Bickert, Heather Turnbach, Jared Good, Jade Garcia, Jonathan Gagas, Joseph Davido, Jennifer Cohen, James Texeira, Caitlin Mchugh
Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present
USGA Passes Sigma Pi • Two Students Wear Questionable Costumes • Lonnie Graham is the Spark • Ursinus Proposes Possible Plans for Honor Code • The Benefits for a Professor on Sabbatical • Effects of Election Still Resonate in Ursinus Community • Do Ursinus Students Make use of Proximity to Philadelphia? • Opinions: Is Online Dating a Safe Alternative for Meeting People or a Risky Plea of Desperation?; All is not Lost for Liberals • Field Hockey Team Wins Centennial Conference Title • It's All Over for Three Women Soccer Players • The Collegeville Curse
The Grizzly, September 30, 2004, Lauren A. Perotti, Lindsey Fund, Christina Rosci, Megan Helzner, Dan Devlin, Lynn Jusinski, Matt Krolikowski, Heather Turnbach, Sarah Tax, Darron Harley, Ashley Higgins, Shannon Burke, Eden Swick, Thomas Herrmann, Claire Derosen, Sarah Yemane
The Grizzly, September 30, 2004, Lauren A. Perotti, Lindsey Fund, Christina Rosci, Megan Helzner, Dan Devlin, Lynn Jusinski, Matt Krolikowski, Heather Turnbach, Sarah Tax, Darron Harley, Ashley Higgins, Shannon Burke, Eden Swick, Thomas Herrmann, Claire Derosen, Sarah Yemane
Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present
USGA has Second Thoughts • Campus Philly Kick-off Week • Lights Out at UC • Where Will You go? UC Study Abroad Programs • Andrew Sullivan to Speak at Ursinus • Easy Access to Social Security Numbers Causes Some Concerns • The Aid Game • Why Study Abroad? • Opinions: Appealing to a Younger Demographic; Experiencing the Miss America Pageant Live; MTV Generation of Choosers and Losers; Ready Maim Fire • Baseball Preview • Women's Soccer Defeats Immaculata • Women's Rugby Claws way to Victory
The Robert W. Ryerss Museum And Library : A Case Study In Upper Class Philanthropy In Late Victorian Philadelphia, Laura L. Keefe
The Robert W. Ryerss Museum And Library : A Case Study In Upper Class Philanthropy In Late Victorian Philadelphia, Laura L. Keefe
Honors Theses
"The Robert W. Ryerss Museum and Library: A Case Study in Upper Class Philanthropy in Late Victorian Philadelphia" looks at the philanthropy of the Robert W. Ryerss family in Gilded Age Philadelphia. It places the Ryerss family within the spectrum of philanthropic spirit and activity that swept upper class Philadelphia in the late nineteenth century and analyzes the unique act of creating a public library and museum out of a private home within the context of the larger trend of scientific giving and museum foundation that characterized this era. Historical scholarship is extremely limited about this particular class of donor …
Tea Trade, Consumption, And The Republican Paradox In Prerevolutionary Philadelphia, Jane T. Merritt
Tea Trade, Consumption, And The Republican Paradox In Prerevolutionary Philadelphia, Jane T. Merritt
History Faculty Publications
Discusses the politics of the tea trade and tea consumption in late colonial Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, through the views of tea merchants and political radicals in America. The emergence of global trade had stripped tea of its luxury status, as its price continually dropped over the early 18th century. Smuggled tea from Dutch sources lowered prices further, enabling many to boycott British tea without hardship. Tea merchants decried the boycott for economic reasons while boycott leaders sought to gain the moral high ground by re-infusing tea with luxury status. Such was the status when the 1773 Tea Act placed a small …