" Lines upon the late proceedings of the College Government" collection, 1787-1917

This collection contains various manifestations of a humorous poem, most often called "Lines upon the late proceedings of the College Government," written by classmates John Quincy Adams and John Murray Forbes in 1787. Both Adams and Forbes were members of the class of 1787, and the poem recounts events surrounding the pranks and ensuing punishment of two members of the class behind them, Robert Wier and James Prescott. Wier and Prescott had been caught drinking wine and making "riotous noise," and they were publicly reprimanded by Harvard President Joseph Willard and several professors and tutors, including Eliphalet Pearson, Eleazar James, Jonathan Burr, Nathan Read, and Timothy Lindall Jennison. The poem mocks these authority figures, but it spares Samuel Williams, whom it suggests was the only professor to find their antics humorous.

Inscription for Mr. Remington's grave stone, ca. 1800

This one-page undated and unattributed document contains a handwritten copy of the Latin inscription made for Jonathan Remington's gravestone.

John Gordon notebook, 1793-1795

A notebook containing handwriting exercises written by John Gordon at Atkinson Academy, New Hamsphire.

Irtiqāʼ al-siyādah fī ʻilm uṣūl al-naḥw : manuscript, [ca. 1675]

Written in one column, 21 lines per page, in black and red.

Bulūgh al-arab bi-taḥrīr al-nisab / li-Mawlānā al-Imām al-ʻAllāmah al-Humām Sībawayh zamānih wa-Farīd ʻaṣrih wa-awānih al-Shaykh Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad al-Ghunaymī al-Anṣārī : manuscript, [1622]

According to a muqābalah note on f. 11r, copy is collated with the author's copy in the presence of the author. The author signed the copy in his handwriting in the last days of Shaʻbān 1031 AH [June 1622 AD].

Pleasant quippes for upstart newfangled gentlewomen,

"This edition is limited to two hundred copies; this is no. 13."

A German grammar for schools and colleges : based on the Public school German grammar of A.L. Meissner /

Includes "German Handwriting [Schrift]: [10] p. at end.

Bibliotheca Hearneiana : excerpts from the catalogue of the library of Thomas Hearne, A.M. :

"The present impression consists of seventy-five copies for private distribution."

Oscar Wilde : poems in prose and private letters ; including an intimate preface by his biographer, Frank Harris.

Includes facsimile of letter by Oscar Wilde in his handwriting.

Studies in expressive movement /

References: p. 249-260.

Evenings in Boston. ...

Bound in printed and illustrated boards.

Sir Thomas More. a play ; now first printed /

The bulk of the play is now ascribed to Anthony Munday. Of the additions three pages (p. 8-9) may be in Shakespeare's hand. cf. Sir E. M. Thompson's Shakespeare's handwriting, 1916.

Profile of paediatric occupational therapy practice in Australia

Background: The purpose of the present study was to describe a profile of Australian paediatric occupational therapy practice in terms of theories, assessments and interventions used with the most frequently seen client groups. Methods: An ex post facto survey design was utilised. A purpose-designed survey was mailed to 600 occupational therapists identified by OT Australia as working in paediatrics. Results: The response rate was 55% (n = 330). Respondents in the sample worked chiefly with children with developmental delays, learning disabilities, neurological impairments, and infants/toddlers. Theoretical models used by paediatric clinicians that were common to the most frequently seen client groups focused on sensory integration/multisensory approaches, occupational performance, and client-centred practice. Assessment tools most frequently used were the Test of Visual Motor Integration, Sensory Profile, Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency, Handwriting Speed Test, and Motor-Free Visual Perception Test. The most often used treatment methods across the four most frequently seen client groups were parent/caregiver education, sensory integration/stimulation techniques, and managing activities of daily living. Conclusions: Paediatric occupational therapists appeared to draw on a range of theoretical models. With the exception of the Sensory Profile, the assessment and treatment methods most frequently used are not congruent with the most commonly used theoretical models. It is critical that the assessment and treatment methods used are conceptually consistent with the theoretical models that guide practice. Occupational therapists need to examine the evidence and determine whether their clinical practice is grounded in the best contemporary theoretical models, assessments and interventions.

The role of orthographic-motor integration in the production of creative and well-structured written text for students in secondary school

There is a strong relationship between orthographic-motor integration related to handwriting and students' ability to produce creative and well-structured written text. This relationship is thought to be due to the cognitive load which results when attention is required by writers to write letters and words on the page. Lack of automaticity in orthographic-motor integration means that writers do not have sufficient cognitive resources to accomplish the more demanding aspects of text production such as ideation, text monitoring, and pragmatic awareness. A systematic handwriting program can significantly improve the quality of written text by young children experiencing problems with orthographic-motor integration. This study investigated the effectiveness of a handwriting program in remediating older students' problems in orthographic-motor integration and consequently enhancing their written language skills. Two groups of students in Grades 8 and 9 were provided with either practice in handwriting or daily completion of a written journal. There were no differences between the two groups at pre-test. However, at post-test, the handwriting group had significantly higher scores in orthographic-motor integration as well as for the length and quality of the text they wrote.

Off-line signature verification and forgery detection using fuzzy modeling

Automatic signature verification is a well-established and an active area of research with numerous applications such as bank check verification, ATM access, etc. This paper proposes a novel approach to the problem of automatic off-line signature verification and forgery detection. The proposed approach is based on fuzzy modeling that employs the Takagi-Sugeno (TS) model. Signature verification and forgery detection are carried out using angle features extracted from box approach. Each feature corresponds to a fuzzy set. The features are fuzzified by an exponential membership function involved in the TS model, which is modified to include structural parameters. The structural parameters are devised to take account of possible variations due to handwriting styles and to reflect moods. The membership functions constitute weights in the TS model. The optimization of the output of the TS model with respect to the structural parameters yields the solution for the parameters. We have also derived two TS models by considering a rule for each input feature in the first formulation (Multiple rules) and by considering a single rule for all input features in the second formulation. In this work, we have found that TS model with multiple rules is better than TS model with single rule for detecting three types of forgeries; random, skilled and unskilled from a large database of sample signatures in addition to verifying genuine signatures. We have also devised three approaches, viz., an innovative approach and two intuitive approaches using the TS model with multiple rules for improved performance. (C) 2004 Pattern Recognition Society. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.