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Materials Needed for the Library
No full textA list of backfiles of periodicals needed by the Library
Pre-Feudal Women
No full textBuck looks at social forces that can be perceived in the poem Beowulf and discovers that the early medieval North European rearing produced a wonderful "breed" of warriors and fellow-warriors, with attractively tragic and pathetic women in the burh-loca of all their backgrounds. Their form of social bonding can be relied on only to produce more of the same, hence is not appropriate at present to our society
Last Words in Volume 14:1
No full textMarchnd notes 'the proportion of literacy is shockingly low among the total number of those going to college." He attributes this to "the great influx into the colleges of students whose main interest is in technical training or in the social and business prestige of a college degree, rather than in a truly liberal education, makes the university no longer the best measure of literacy in the community. The book stores and the libraries are better barometers of the reading public.
A Magazine Publisher's Lot is not a Happy One
No full textHunt reveals the difficult history of magazine publishing in America from the colonial period though the early twentieth century
The Log of the Brig Rebecca, October 15 - November 7, 1779
No full textIn addition to being an American revolutionary war poet, Philip Freneau fought in the war. This article concerns Freneau's expreriences on the Brig Rebecca for a brief time in 1779, recorded in his personal log, which is a part of Rutgers' collection of his papers
Freneau's "View" of Princeton
No full textThis article contains a transcription of and places into historical context Philip Freneau's "Ode on a Remote Perspective View of Princeton College," first published in the Trenton "True American" in 1822 under the initial "R' and again in the New Brunswick "Fredonian" under the initials "N.R." in the same year