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The School of Education at Rutgers: Fifty Years
No full textDurnin provides a history of the Rutgers' School of Education on the fiftieth anniversary of the Graduate School of Education. He begins with the school's antecedents in teacher education at Queen's College
Greetings from the President
No full textClothier (1885–1970), president of Rutgers from 1932 to 1951, writes. "It is gratifying to welcome this first issue of The Journal of the Rutgers University Library. Through the Journal we shall come to know our Library better. We shall "discover" the real treasures it holds. We shall understand better the great opportunities which lie before us.
A Checklist of Incunabula in the Department of Special Collections and Archives, A. S. Alexander Library, Rutgers University
No full textNew Jersey's Ratified Copy of the Federal Constitution
No full textJustice Brennan speaks about the ratification of the Federal Constitution by New Jersey and the fact that Rutgers has a copy of it
Seven Whitman Letters
No full textSeven Walt Whitman letters are transcribed and commented upon. They are addressed to William Sloane Kennedy, an active literary man of the time, whose acquaintance with the poet, begun in 1880, soon ripened into close friendship
Graham Taylor, Class of 1870
No full textGrraham Taylor (1851-1938) was a graduate of Rutgers (1870) and New Brunswick Theological Seminary (1873). After becoming a pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church of Hopewell Junction, New York, he became a pioneer of social service at Hartford Theological Seminary. In 1892 the Congregational Chicago Theological Seminary offered him the opportunity to develop a new department to be called "Christian Sociology," the first such department in any theological seminary. He later established what became Chicago Commons Social Settlement
The Manuscript of Philip Freneau's The British Prison-ship
No full textThis article contains a transcription of first, draft manuscript version of "The British Prison-Ship,” written in Philip Freneau’s handwriting in an old notebook owned by Rutgers Library which also contains "The Log of the Brig Rebecca," published in the Journal in the previous issue. Leary compares it with printed versions. NOTE: the last lines of this article appear at the top of the page of the beginning of the next article: "The Associated Friends.