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A Brief sketch of the lives of Ezekiel and Julia Hills Johnson
No full textTypescript (4 pages), story of the Johnson family headed by Ezekiel and Julia Johnson, some of whose children were early LDS converts, and who lived at Kirtland and Nauvoo. Copied from the journal of son Benjamin F. Johnson by Klea Johnson Ballinger in 193
Letter from W. T. Johnson to Benjamin F. Murvin
No full textLetter from W. T. Johnson to Benjamin F. Murvin, concerning recommendations for Harold Horace Hutto
Johnson, Benjamin F.
No full textGenealogy of the Benjamin F. Johnson family in Rowan County, Kentucky
Marriage record of Johnson, Benjamin F. and Blount, Ruth
No full textMarriage license for Benjamin F. Johnson and Ruth Blount. A.P. Brockway was the Notary Public
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Memorandum for McGeorge Bundy: Request for appointment with President Johnson
No full textFrom Benjamin Read: Robert F. Woodward, United States Ambassador to Spain wishes to call on President Johnson to pay his respects
C. E. Johnson, St. George, Utah, journal, 1878 - 1882
No full textBook containing a brief sketch of the life of Charles Ellis Johnson; an account of the death of his sister, Jessie Miller, in 1881 at Mesa, Arizona; genealogical notes for the family; pasted-in obituary for his brother, Benjamin F. Johnson, who died 18 Nov. 1905 at Mesa, Arizona; an essay on the Saint George Temple (pages 72 - 75); and articles from a Silver Reef newspaper about the departure of the Johnson family for Tempe, Arizona, in 188
On Using Toeplitz and Circulant Matrices for Johnson-Lindenstrauss Transforms
No full textThe Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemma is one of the corner stone results in dimensionality reduction. It says that given N, for any set of N,
vectors X \subset R^n, there exists a mapping f : X --> R^m such that f(X) preserves all pairwise distances between vectors in X to within(1 ± \eps) if m = O(\eps^{-2} lg N). Much effort has gone into developing
fast embedding algorithms, with the Fast Johnson-Lindenstrauss
transform of Ailon and Chazelle being one of the most well-known
techniques. The current fastest algorithm that yields the optimal m =
O(\eps{-2}lg N) dimensions has an embedding time of O(n lg n + \eps^{-2} lg^3 N). An exciting approach towards improving this, due to Hinrichs and Vybíral, is to use a random m times n Toeplitz matrix for the
embedding. Using Fast Fourier Transform, the embedding of a vector can
then be computed in O(n lg m) time. The big question is of course
whether m = O(\eps^{-2} lg N) dimensions suffice for this technique. If
so, this would end a decades long quest to obtain faster and faster
Johnson-Lindenstrauss transforms. The current best analysis of the
embedding of Hinrichs and Vybíral shows that m = O(\eps^{-2} lg^2 N)
dimensions suffice. The main result of this paper, is a proof that
this analysis unfortunately cannot be tightened any further, i.e.,
there exists a set of N vectors requiring m = \Omega(\eps^{-2} lg^2 N)
for the Toeplitz approach to work
Benjamin F. Butler and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
No full textOn March 3, 1868, the House of Representatives, a week after approving a resolution which impeached President Andrew Johnson, chose seven of its members to serve as managers at the subsequent trial before the Senate. One of the seven was Benjamin Franklin Butler, a freshman Congressman from Massachusetts. Selection alone for such an important duty demonstrated how Butler\u27s influence went beyond his number of years in the capitol. However, as the trial revealed, his importance was even greater. Long a prominent proponent of impeachment as a means to rid Congress of its main obstacle to dominating reconstruction in the South, he swiftly established himself as the leading figure on the prosecution\u27s team
Public worship and practical theology in the work of Benjamin Keach (1640-1704)
No full textThe late seventeenth century was a critical and fruitful period
for the Particular Baptists of England. Severely persecuted following
the Restoration, toleration in 1689 brought its own perils.
Particular Baptists were fortunate in having several strong leaders,
especially the London trio of Hanserd Knollys, William Kiffin, and
Benjamin Keach. Such a small and severely persecuted group as the
Baptists could afford little time for academic pursuits, thus of
necessity most of their theology was practical in nature.
Benjamin Keach (1640-1704) was the most outstanding practical
theologian among the English Particular Baptists of the late
seventeenth century. This dissertation is a study of Keach, in
particular his writings on public worship and practical theology.
Although Keach was a prolific author, he has been almost completely
neglected by scholars.
After a biographical sketch of Keach, this study considers his
writings on public worship and practical theology. In the area of
worship, Keach made two outstanding contributions: First, he was the
most vocal apologist for Baptist views on Baptism of his period.
Secondly, and more importantly, his hymn writing and defense of hymn
singing broke new ground, not just for Baptists, but for English
Protestantism, in general. In addition to his contributions in these
areas, he also dealt with the laying on of hands and the sabbath day
worship controversy.
Keach's contributions to practical theology fall into two main
groups: his writings that concern religious education and those that
deal with polity. In addition to these, Keach's vigorous advocacy of
a high Calvinist soteriology are also considered under the rubric of
practical theology. Keach's most important (although not his most
positive) contribution in this area were his soteriological writings.
Although well within the bounds of orthodoxy, some of the tendencies
in Keach's soteriology were taken up by the following generation of
Baptist leaders and developed into a stultifying hyper-Calvinism that
handicapped Baptist evangelism and missions.
In the conclusion, Keach's contributions to a theory of practical
theology are considered
Oral History Interview: Benjamin Elliott (0240)
No full textRecollections of childhood in Nebraska; Interest in engineering; Teaching Extension classes; Railroads; Work during WWI; Textbook on gasoline automobile; Mechanical Engineering Department; Industrial research; Dean F. Ellis Johnson; Glenn Frank; Engineers' Day; Engineering personalities; Changes in College of Engineering; University issues; Relationship between Engineering and Agricultural Engineering; Leisure activities
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