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Hornbooks, Mother Goose, and the University Library
No full textGaver makes the case for university libraries to collection juvenile or children's literature. She states "The development of a body of literature for children sufficient in quality and quantity to justify really critical attention and study at the university level is a phenomenon of the twentieth century and, curiously enough, it is also a phenomenon still limited primarily to the countries of northern Europe and the English-speaking world
ALS: Swinburne to William Michael Rossetti
No full textLang investigates the famous relationship between Algernon Charles Swinburne and William Michael Rossetti as revealed in Swinburne's ninety letters to Rossetti, spanning the period from 1862 to 1908, found in the Symington Collection
Continued Controversy: The Rutgers Medical School and the Library of Science and Medicine
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"Poor Slavish Dependents"
No full textMcCormick writes about a rare pamphlet owned by the Library, "Proposals for Traffick and Commerce, or Foreign Trade in New-Jersey . . .," printed in 1718, probably by Andrew Bradford. The central concern of the pamphlet is one that has long plagued Jerseymen—how to achieve freedom from a "slavish dependence" on New York. The answer, devised in the best mercantilist tradition, was to develop an independent foreign trade by a judicious use of export and import duties and by the creation of a local supply of money
Dedication of the Rutgers Library
No full textMarchand recounts the official Dedication ceremonies took place on November 16 and 17, 1956
Notes from the Library
No full text"De Re Metallica" by Albert O. Hayes: On March 6, 1940, while Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hoover were guests of President and Mrs. Clothier, they autographed for the Library a copy of their translation of the 1556 edition of Dc Re Metallica, by Georgius Agricola, the first great work ever written on mining and metallurgy."Centenary of Soil Science" by Selman A. Waksman: 1940 marks the centenary of the publication of the first Report on the Geology of the State of New Jersey, under the title "Description of the Geology of the State of New Jersey, Being a Final Report," by Henry D. Rogers, State Geologist, and Professor of Geology and Mineralogy at the University of Pennsylvania."Deed of Hendrick Rutgers" by W. H. S. Demarest."The Bucket" by Rudolf Kirk. A poem by Samuel Woodworth (1784-1842)
