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Austin Scott and the "Seminary in History"
No full textAustin Scott (1848-1922) was a professor of History, Political Economy, and Constitutional Law at Rutgers and its president (1891-1906). This article describes the history of the German seminar in higher education in the US and especially its introduction at Rutgers by Scott
Century-old Textbooks in the Rutgers Library
No full textOne may almost say that during the middle and late nineteenth century William Holmes McGuffey taught the whole of the United States to read. As a part of the nation-wide celebration in honor of this great educator, Dr. Clarence E. Partch has contributed to The Journal the following article in which he tells something of the role which McGuffey played in American education and of the particular characteristics of his books. The Rutgers Library is fortunate in having among the hundreds of old textbooks in its collections original copies of several of the "McGuffey Readers." It was additionally fortunate in this centenary year of McGuffey's birth to receive from Mr. Henry Ford a gift of the whole set, reprinted in excellent facsimile of the seven volumes of the "Eclectic Readers.
The Great Chronicle of the City of London
No full textThis article describes of publication "The Great Chronicle of London" (1189-1512) which was published for the first time in 1938. It is surprising that so important and interesting a document as 'The Great Chronicle of London' has existed till the present in a single manuscript copy which only passed into public ownership with its recent presentation by the Viscount Wakefield of Hythe to the Guildhall Library of London, where it is now Guildhall Library MS. 3313. A copy of the Chronicle was given to the Rutgers Library
Dodsley's Preceptor--A Window into the Eighteenth Century
No full textRandall looks at "Preceptor" by Robert Dodsley (1704–1764), his "educational pot-pourri," a compilation of several authors that had great influence in eighteenth century education.
New Jersey and the Civil War: Notes Toward a Bibliography
No full textSinclair declairs his intensions for his New Jersey and the Civil War Bibliography. [It came out in 1968 as "A Bibliography : the Civil War and New Jersey.] For technical reasons, he excludes newspaper and manuscripts. [However, in 2003 he published "A Guide to New Jersey and Other Civil War Manuscripts in the Special Collections and University Archives of Rutgers University."
Gifts and Acquisitions in Volume 21:2
No full textMentions a gift of seventeenth century medical-mystical-astronlogical works; a Symington Collection Supplement,"centering around Sir Edmund Gosse, including some twenty letters and manuscripts in his hand, and perhaps twice as many letters received by him; the papers of Washington A.Roebling; a group of "Certificates of Abandonment for Negro Children Born of Slave Parents," 1805-1807; letters of Woodrow Wilson, etc
The New American Bible
No full textCooper takes issue with the "new" "American" Bible that was published in the early 1950s. He finds a lack of rhythm in the new prose translation and compares it with earlier English translations
