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Vassar College Memorial Minutes

Washburn, Margaret Floy, 1871-1939 | Memorial Minute:

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[After 1939]
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Vassar College Memorial Minutes

Washburn, Margaret Floy, 1871-1939 | Memorial Minute:

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[After 1939]
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Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection

Water basketball team portrait

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approximately 1923
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Varsity water basketball team

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Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection

Water basketball team portrait

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1925-1926
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Varsity water basketball team. Mary K. Marshall (VC 1926), team manager, is in the back row, left.

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Wolven Glass Plate Negative Collection

Water Basketball team portrait

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1922-1923
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Varsity water basketball team

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Vassar Scholarship

Water the Roots: The Fluidity of Blackness and Time

Publication Date
2021-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Stevens, Lena
Department or Program
Media Studies Program
Film Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

This project is a meditation on Blackness, life, death, loss, and spirituality. Although this thesis was executed in hopes of fulfilling an academic requirement, each frame provides insight into my experiences as a low-income Black and Native Hawaiian woman living...

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Vassar College Early Images

Watercolor of Vassar College, 1865

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Date
19-?
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Main Building, Observatory and Riding School of Vassar College with paths, trees, shrubs and people. Some people are on horseback.

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Vassar Scholarship

We're City Lifers: Transformative Community Organizing in Boston's City Life/Vida Urbana

Publication Date
2014-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Bix, Jonathan
Department or Program
Sociology Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

City Life/Vida Urbana is a base-building community organization committed to structural transformation through racial, economic, gender, and other forms of social justice. Its local work currently focuses on preventing evictions as a result of foreclosures. Most people come to City...

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Vassar Scholarship

Wealth effects of supervisory goodwill litigation: A portfolio approach

Publication Date
2000-March-18
Document Type
working paper
Authors
Smith, John Z., Jr.
Beauregard, Joshua M.
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Working Paper
Abstract

Using a unique set of publicly-traded litigation certificates, we measure the wealth effects of (largely) unanticipated damage awards in the ongoing supervisory goodwill litigation between thrifts and the federal government. Estimating abnormal returns for portfolios of litigation certificates and retained...

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Vassar Scholarship

Webcam Culture: & the Commodification of Privacy

Publication Date
2015-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Jessica Lin
Department or Program
Media Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
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My thesis takes a look at the history of webcam culture and investigates the changing attitudes towards surveillance and privacy since the creation of webcam technology and the rise of participatory culture. I postulate that since webcam culture became increasingly...

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