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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Oberlin"”.
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Women in an Evangelical Community: Oberlin 1835-50
<p>Oberlin College is frequently mentioned in connection with women's education, women's rights, or the struggle for women's emancipation. The following passage from the 1834 First Circular is invariably cited: Oberlin's founders strove for"… the elevation of female character, by bringing within …
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Sowing the Seed: Oberlin Female Missionary Teachers of Southern Blacks, 1863-1875
… were sent South by the AMA was recruited from Oberlin College. Most of those who came from Oberlin College, as was true of the missionary teachers on the whole, were women.</p><p>This paper explores this particular group of evangelical Oberlin women who became teachers and missionaries to the …
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Restricted projection families and weighted Fourier restriction
… \right\}. \] This improves the bound of Oberlin and Oberlin \cite{oberlin}, and of Orponen and Venieri \cite{venieri}, for $\dim A \in (1.5,2.4)$. In the second part, an improved lower bound is given for the decay of conical averages of Fourier transforms of measures, for cones of …
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The Life and Music of Will Marion Cook
… arenas. His educational preparation included Oberlin, Berlin's Hochschule fur Musik, and New York's National Conservatory of Music.
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Bringing Hands Together Through Music: Dick and Georgia Bassett and the Association for Music in International Schools
… Mrs. Bassett, a vocalist and violinist, met at Oberlin Conservatory, where they were studying to become music educators. The Bassetts’ participation in honor ensembles in their formative years and in the “Oberlin in Salzburg” program - a year-long study abroad experience for Oberlin music majors …
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Alice Chalifoux -- The Legacy
… a teacher at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Oberlin-College Conservatory, Baldwin-Wallace College, and the University of Maryland, and her directorship of the Salzedo Summer Harp Colony of Camden, Maine.
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Ella Deloria: a biographical sketch and literary analysis
… her academic achievement in 1911, she attended Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, for two years. Leaving Oberlin, she went to Columbia University and received her B.A. in 1914. While she was at Columbia she taught Lakota language to students under the direction of Dr. Franz Boas of the Department …
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Exercise and glycemic control in individuals with type 2 diabetes
Type 2 diabetes (T2D) and the associated impaired glycemic control greatly increases the risk of cardiovascular disease mortality. PURPOSE: It is unknown if or for how long a single bout of exercise will reduce post-prandial glucose levels in individuals with T2D. METHODS: We recruited 9 …
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Giving up the Ghost: Death in the Depression
<p>The preceding section is the human evidence behind this paper: what did the Great Depression feel like? What was it like to live in a Hooverville? To travel across the country in a rundown Jalopy? To Jump freight trains and live in box cars? To go on relief? What impact did the depression have …
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From Social Reform to Social Science: The Women's Educational and Industrial Union of Boston, 1877-1912
<p>Founded in 1877, the Women's Educational and Industrial Union of Boston is still in existence today. Although a pioneer in the fields of social reform, industrial education, women's organizations, and social science, it has long been neglected by historians. The first thirty-five years of the …
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Occupational and Geographic Mobility in San Francisco, 1870-1890
This study will focus on social mobility in San Francisco in the late nineteenth century. The question I want to answer is, does the quantitative evidence available support the contention that nineteenth century America was a land in which a man was free to rise as far as his talents could carry …
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American Women's Intellectual History in the Revolutionary and New Republican Era: Charting a Shift in Feminist Theory
<p>This paper is a study of American women's intellectual history in the period 1770-1815. My aim is to develop a coherent conception of women's moral point of view as it is presented in prescriptive literature, political tracts, and women's own writing. Because of the nature of my goal, I will …
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The Heart and Mind of Simone de Beauvoir
This thesis will examine Beauvoir's views on women, her unique brand of feminism. The following questions will be pursued: How did Beauvoir break out of the traditional female role as a young woman? What were Beauvoir's views on women in general? On various types of women? How do Beauvoir's novels …
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Julius Caesar in Medieval France: The Textual Sources and Iconography of the <i>Faits des Romains</i>
<p>The Julius Caesar of Shakespeare's day was a figure who believed that fame transcended mortality. Long after Caesar the man was dead, Caesar the legend lived on. It was a legend which in many ways was an analogue of the man. The legend maintained all of Caesar's stubborn persistence, and to some …
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Voices in the Wind: American Opposition to the Korean War
<p>Very little has been written on the peace movement during the Korean war. Historian Joseph Conlin assessed the period and concluded that "when hostilities with North Korean troops commenced in 1950, the American antiwar movement stood at its nadir." Lawrence Wittner's fine book Rebels Against …
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Patterns of Disenchantment. The Position of the Liberal and Labour Party: 1910-1914
<p>The first chapter deals with the underlying trends of the period. At first the material conditions of the first decade of the twentieth century will be assessed. What was the economic condition of the people? How was this position colored by the levels of relative deprivation, education, and …
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Jewish Women Reformers and Jewish Immigrant Women: The Columbian Council of Pittsburgh, 1893-1920
<p>I began this project with an interest in Jewish immigrant women's adjustment to American life. I first examined general patterns of immigration to the United States in the nineteenth century, to determine how Jewish immigration fit into the patterns and specifically, the. role of Jewish women in …
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Survivals of Paganism in Christian Medieval Iceland as Evidenced by the Icelandic Family Sagas
<p>In the summer of the year 1000 A.D., the General Assembly of Iceland voted to convert to Christianity. The basis for this decision was political rather than religious, as it was to prevent civil dissension. This factor influenced the subsequent impact of Christianity on Icelandic society, and …
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The ISS on Campus: The Intercollegiate Socialist Society, 1905-1921
<p>"Student activism" is a commonly used-and somewhat loaded-phrase. In the mind of the modern observer, the phrase inspires images of peace signs, love beads, sit-ins, and Kent State. Student activism, however, has not always been true to this imagery. The tradition of student groups devoted to …
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