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Vassar College Student Diaries

Brydon, Anne Page. Diary, 1922

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1922
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The volume begins in January 1922, which was the end of the first semester of Brydon's freshman year. Brydon wrote about her daily academic routine, as well as how she spent her free time. She enjoyed socializing with classmates, playing bridge, walking, skating, sledding (coasting), bike riding

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Vassar College Student Diaries

Brydon, Anne Page. Diary, 1923

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1923
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This volume covers September to December of 1923, the start of Brydon's sophomore year at Vassar. In 1923 she vowed to be more reflective in her diary than she was in 1922, but she did cover some of the same topics. Brydon wrote about her daily academic routine, as well as how she spent her free

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The Library Café

Bryn Geffert

Date
January 29, 2014
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Bryn Geffert, Librarian of the College at Amherst College, talks about the crisis in scholarly book publishing and his new venture to address the crisis, the Amherst College Press.

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Vassar College Memorial Minutes

Buck, Gertrude, 1871-1922 | Memorial Minute

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[After 1922]
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Vassar Scholarship

Budget-Constrained Dynamics in Multiagent Systems

Publication Date
2017-January-01
Document Type
conference
Authors
Naumov, Pavel
Cao, Rui
Department or Program
Computer Science Department
Document Type
Conference
Abstract

The paper introduces a notion of a budget-constrained multiagent transition system that associates two financial parameters with each transition: a pre-transition minimal budget requirement and a post-transition profit. The paper proposes a new modal language for reasoning about such a...

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Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection

Buildings and Grounds,1897-1939

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Images of the Vassar buildings (interior and exterior) and the landscapes of campus and the surrounding area. Highlights include views of Vassar Lake before the Raymond Avenue elevation change in 1966, the southeast portion of campus before Sunset Lake was created, Raymond Avenue before the Faculty

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Vassar Scholarship

Built for speed: strain in the cartilaginous vertebral columns of sharks

Publication Date
2014-February-01
Document Type
article
Authors
Porter, M. E.
Diaz, Candido, Jr.
Sturm, Joshua J.
Grotmol, Sindre
Summers, A.P.
Long, John H., Jr.
Department or Program
Biology Department
Cognitive Science Department
Document Type
Article
Abstract

In most bony fishes vertebral column strain during locomotion is almost exclusively in the intervertebral joints, and when these joints move there is the potential to store and release strain energy. Since cartilaginous fishes have poorly mineralized vertebral centra, we...

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Susan B. Anthony Collection

Burdette, Robert J | to Susan B. Anthony, Mar 18, 1903

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1903-03-18
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John Burroughs Journals

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