Vassar College Digital Library

Vassar Scholarship

Vassar Scholarship, the institutional repository formerly known as Digital Window, reflects the research and scholarly output of the Vassar College community.  It provides access to a variety of collections, including senior theses and projects across a wide range of disciplines.

Benjamin Bagby performs Beowulf

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2016-January-01
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Recordings of <em>Beowulf</em> performed by Benjamin Bagby (voice; Anglo-Saxon harp). The recordings were made in Cologne, Germany in January 2016.
Running times:
Track 1: 04:34
Track 2: 06:33
Track 3: 13:56

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Lighthouse principle for diffusion in social networks

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2018-January-01
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The article investigates an influence relation between two sets of agents in a social network. It proposes a logical system that captures propositional properties of this relation valid in all threshold models of social networks with the same structure. The...

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Seeing the Sun: Maria Mitchell’s Observations, 1868-1888

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2016-January
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A Catalogue of the Exhibition Seeing the Sun Maria Mitchell’s Observations, 1868-1888. At the Frederick Ferris Thompson Memorial Library January — June 2016. Curated by Laura Streett, College Archivist and Debra Meloy Elmegreen, Professor of Astronomy on the Maria Mitchell...

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The United States Education System and Intergenerational Income Mobility

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2015-January-01
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This study intends to determine some of the avenues through which parent income affects child income and if the public education system has the potential to increase income mobility and equalize economic opportunity. I find that the income elasticity between...

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