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That Amazing Man Beck
No full textCole writes about Lewis C. Beck (1798-1853) who was a professor of Chemistry and Natural Philosopy at Rutgers from 1830 to 1953. Cole mines the 803 pages of diaries and other sources of this explorer-botanist-geographer to tell the tale of this amazing man
Muckrake and Manchu: The Image of China in the American Press, 1900-1912
No full textIsrael looks at the popular image of China at the beginning of the twentieth century through the eyes of popular American magazines. What emerges is a "China Muckraking" style of journalism in such magazines as "Independent, Success," "The Nation," "McClure's", "Collier's" and others. Israel finds the periodical clipping files in the William Elliot Griffis collection especially usefuly in pursuring this research
Elihu Smith's All-American Anthology
No full textElihu Smith (1771-1798), physician, a friend to the famous of his time, and a writer of sorts, is best known for his editorship of the first entirely American poetry anthology, "American Poems." The book may be the first anthology limited to works by Americans as well as one of the earliest anthologies of any sort to appear in the nation
The New Federalist Party Covention of 1814
No full textLevine recounts the issues related to the battle between the Federalists and the Republican parties for supremacy in the New Jersey state legislature in 1814. He relies heavily on a rare document in Rutgers Special Collections. "Proceedings and Address of the Second Convention of Delegates held at the City of Trenton on Fourth July, 1814, to the People of New Jersey." It contains the minutes, the address, and the resolutions of the Federalist conclave. This document thus presents both a description of the convention and a summation of the Federalist appeal for the 1814 campaign
This Library We Dedicate
No full textNicols (vice provost and dean of the graduate school of arts and sciences of the University of Pennsylvania and Rutgers grad 1918) gave this speech at the dedication ceremony, in November 1956 for the new University Library. It evokes the history of the history for the university and its libraries from their origins at Queen's College up to the present
Seventeenth-Century Scribal Culture and "A Dialogue between King James and King William"
No full textKelly shows how political poems were circulated in manuscript in the later seventeenth century, not unlike some of Milton’s own political sonnets, which had a limited manuscript circulation, and were not printed in some cases some until many years after his death. The author of the anonymously-circulated poem, “A Dialogue between King James and King William,” is Charles Blount (1654–1693), a radical Whig author who wrote mostly in prose. In the manuscript poem, Blount imagines a conversation between King James and King William after James fled to Ireland, when William rose to power in what is known as the Glorious Revolution of 1688
Seventy-five Years of The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries
No full textWill the Journal last another twenty-five years to its one hundredth anniversary? That is difficult to say. While many bibliographic library journals have ceased in the last few decades, I feel there is still a place for the Journal. As Tom Fulton notes in his article in this volume, “One of the most exciting developments in the study of reading over the past twenty years has been a return to books themselves as evidence for the way in which people read.” Along with a reinvigorated interest in the history of the book at Rutgers and elsewhere, the Journal offers an important venue for articles reflecting these trends. But with the rapid transformation in technology, who knows what will happen to the genre of the academic journal itself? We at least have taken steps that have brought us strongly into the digital age.
An Evening with Scotty Cameron
No full textA June 2, 1966 program and menu on the occasion of Donald F. Cameron stepping down as University Librarian