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Vassar College Student Letters

Teegarden, Mary Treat | to cousin, Dec. 1867:

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December 23, 1867
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VC Spec 1867-1868

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Vassar College Student Letters

Teegarden, Mary Treat. Letter, 1867

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1867
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1 letter from Teegarden to her cousin Mary A. Starr. She describes her experience staying at Vassar over the Christmas holiday and the daily activities of the students during the break. On Christmas, she writes about attending a service at Christ Church in the City and hosting a Christmas party for

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Tempelhofer Feld and the Right to the City: Towards Better Democracies in Berlin

Publication Date
2014-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Michael Kiel
Department or Program
Earth Science and Geography Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
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Vassar Only
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Tempelhof, a field dating to Prussia and earlier, served the national socialists as an airport and site of oppression, as well as a lifeline for the allies in the iconic Berlin Airlift, bringing food to the residents of West Berlin...

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Temporal Exploration of the Proceedings of Old Bailey

Publication Date
2020-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Charlotte J. Lambert
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
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The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674–1913 (Hitchcock et al., 2012b) is a published record of criminal proceedings at London's central criminal court. The Proceedings primarily depict the lives of the "non-elite" population of London. This project explores these proceedings...

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Temporary employment decisions of registered nurses

Publication Date
1997-December-01
Document Type
working paper
Authors
Fred A. Bellemore
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Working Paper
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The decision whether or not to work for a temporary agency was examined using a 1990 cross-section survey of Illinois registered nurses and a model which corrects for the simultaneity between agency choice and wages (and benefits). Conditional on having...

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Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection

Tennis courts

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Date
1900-1920
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View of the tennis courts with Raymond Avenue in the background

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Tennis player

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1921-10-01
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Unidentified student playing on the tennis courts

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Tennis player

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1921-10-01
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Unidentified student playing on the tennis courts

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Tennis player

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1921-10-01
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Unidentified student playing on the tennis courts

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Jaspar Parrish Papers

Testimony of James B. Mower, Ontario County Clerk, 1808 Oct 15

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1808-10-15
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Testing biological hypotheses with embodied robots: adaptations, accidents, and by-products in the evolution of vertebrates

Publication Date
2014-November-12
Document Type
article
Authors
Roberts, Sonia F.
Hirokawa, Jonathan
Rosenblum, Hannah G.
Sakhtah, Hassan
Gutierrez, Andres A.
Porter, Marianne E.
Long, John H., Jr.
Department or Program
Biology Department
Cognitive Science Department
Document Type
Article
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Evolutionary robotics allows biologists to test hypotheses about extinct animals. In our case, we modeled some of the first vertebrates, jawless fishes, in order to study the evolution of the trait after which vertebrates are named: vertebrae. …

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Textbook: the sitcom, "Louie", and the French New Wave

Publication Date
2017-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Cristian Uriostegui
Department or Program
Media Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Vassar Only
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It is through visual storytelling style, Francois Truffaut believed, that a director's expressive tendencies could be seen, imprinting a work with their signature style. In the world of television, collaboration is key and production's industrial processes tend to erase the...

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Vassar College Memorial Minutes

Textor, Lucy Elizabeth, 1870-1958 | Memorial Minute:

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[After 1958]
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