La ayuda escolar de las grandes empresas de negocios en los EE.UU.

Se trata el gran aumento de fundaciones y subvenciones de sociedades, de creación de becas, pensiones y donativos para la supervivencia y mejora de la enseñanza superior privada en los Estados Unidos, que está atravesando una profunda crisis por la falta de recursos económicos. Se analizan los motivos que mueven a las grandes empresas como Standard Oil, General Motors o General Electric a donar semejantes cantidades de dinero. Entre los principales motivos se encuentran la formación de una conciencia nacional y mercantil de que los Colleges privados son necesarios para el buen funcionamiento de la industria del país, puesto que ellos se forman los mejores profesiones estadounidenses, las ventajas fiscales para los donantes, y la creencia de que contribuir a la una sociedad mejor preparada y con mayor poder adquisitivo asegura la buena marcha de la industria en el futuro. También contribuyen al plan sociedades educativas que ayudan a encauzar los fondos para la formación de los programas de ayuda, y así evitar gastos y gestiones administrativas.

Identification and Analyses of Candidate Genes for Rpp4-Mediated Resistance to Asian Soybean Rust in Soybean

Asian soybean rust is a formidable threat to soybean (Glycine max) production in many areas of the world, including the United States. Only five sources of resistance have been identified (Resistance to Phakopsora pachyrhizi1 [Rpp1], Rpp2, Rpp3, Rpp4, and Rpp5). Rpp4 was previously identified in the resistant genotype PI459025B and mapped within 2 centimorgans of Satt288 on soybean chromosome 18 (linkage group G). Using simple sequence repeat markers, we developed a bacterial artificial chromosome contig for the Rpp4 locus in the susceptible cv Williams82 (Wm82). Sequencing within this region identified three Rpp4 candidate disease resistance genes (Rpp4C1-Rpp4C3 [Wm82]) with greatest similarity to the lettuce (Lactuca sativa) RGC2 family of coiled coil-nucleotide binding site-leucine rich repeat disease resistance genes. Constructs containing regions of the Wm82 Rpp4 candidate genes were used for virus-induced gene silencing experiments to silence resistance in PI459025B, confirming that orthologous genes confer resistance. Using primers developed from conserved sequences in the Wm82 Rpp4 candidate genes, we identified five Rpp4 candidate genes (Rpp4C1-Rpp4C5 [PI459025B]) from the resistant genotype. Additional markers developed from the Wm82 Rpp4 bacterial artificial chromosome contig further defined the region containing Rpp4 and eliminated Rpp4C1 (PI459025B) and Rpp4C3 (PI459025B) as candidate genes. Sequencing of reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction products revealed that Rpp4C4 (PI459025B) was highly expressed in the resistant genotype, while expression of the other candidate genes was nearly undetectable. These data support Rpp4C4 (PI459025B) as the single candidate gene for Rpp4-mediated resistance to Asian soybean rust.

An abridgment of what I extracted while an undergraduate at Harvard College, 1766-1769

The bound volume contains excerpts copied by Benjamin Wadsworth from books he read as a student at Harvard in the late 1760s. The volume includes almost no personal commentary on the readings. The excerpts are arranged by year of study for the academic years 1766-1769, beginning when Wadsworth was a sophomore. Each entry begins with a title indicating the book title and author for the passage, and there is an alphabetical index at the end of the volume. Wadsworth selected “extracts” from both religious and secular texts including several histories of England, American histories (with a focus on Puritans), the Bible, and in his senior year, “the Koran of Mohammed.” He also read several books on the art of speech and the art of preaching. There are few science texts included, though the final five-page entry is titled, “What I thought fit to note down from Mr. Winthrop’s experimental Lectures” and contains notes both on the content of Professor John Winthrop’s lectures as well as the types of experiments being performed in class. Wadsworth’s commonplace book offers a window on the state of higher education in the eighteenth century and offers a firsthand account of academic life at Harvard College.

Mathematical notebook, and commonplace book, circa 1689-1769

Manuscript notebook, possibly kept by Harvard students, containing 17th century English transcriptions of arithmetic and geometry texts, one of which is dated 1689-1690; 18th century transcriptions from John Ward’s “The Young Mathematician’s Guide”; and notes on physics lectures delivered by John Winthrop, the Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Harvard from 1738 to 1779. The notebook also contains 18th century reading notes on Henry VIII, Tudor succession, and English history from Daniel Neal’s “The History of the Puritans” and David Hume’s “History of England,” and notes on Ancient history, taken mainly from Charles Rollin’s “The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians.” Additionally included are an excerpt from Plutarch’s “Lives” and transcriptions of three articles from “The Gentleman’s Magazine, and Historical Chronicle,” published in 1769: “A Critique on the Works of Ovid”; a book review of “A New Voyage to the West-Indies”; and “Genuine Anecdotes of Celebrated Writers, &.” The flyleaf contains the inscription “Semper boni aliquid operis facito ut diabolus te semper inveniat occupatum,” a variation on a quote of Saint Jerome that translates approximately as “Always good to do some work so that the devil may always find you occupied.” In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Harvard College undergraduates often copied academic texts and lecture notes into personal notebooks in place of printed textbooks. Winthrop used Ward’s textbook in his class, while the books of Hume, Neal, and Rollin were used in history courses taught at Harvard in the 18th century.

1989 Men's Gymnastics Team

Back Row: trainer Steve Brown, grad. asst. Nick Lanphier, David Nader, Ruben Ceballos, Matt Harrison, Louie Ball, Senior Asst. Craig Ehle, senior asst. Ken Haller

Middle Row: David Stecher, Mark Ambroe, Scott Harris, Glenn Hill, John Mains, Eliot Kim, and coach Bob Darden

Front Row: Tony Angelotti, Deacon Harris, Scott Smith, Shawn Martin, Captain Mark Wurfel, Troy Fabregas, and Jim Round

Not Pictured: asst. coach Dorian Deaver

Lucas' progressive drawing book, in three parts: : Part I--The principles of drawing in pencil, Part II--Colouring and shading in india ink, Part III--A treatise on perspective; : consisting chiefly of original views of American scenery, and embracing the latest and best improvements in the mode of instruction.

Poem "The colours" by E. Van Blon, part 2, p. [65]-66.

Lives of the British admirals : containing an accurate naval history from the earliest periods /

Special Collections set imperfect: portraits wanting.

Naval history of Great Britain, including the history and lives of the British admirals.

Originally published, 1742-44, with title: Lives of the admirals.

History of the French Revolution, and of the wars resulting from that memorable event.

Mode of access: Internet.

Biographia nautica; or Memoirs of those illustrious seamen to whose intrepidity and conduct the English are indebted, for ... their pre-eminence on the ocean ...

v. 3, by J. Kent, pub. London: J. Wallis, 1777.

A chronological history of the weather and seasons, and of the prevailing diseases in Dublin : with the various periods, successions, and revolutions, during the space of forty years : with a comparative view of the difference of the Irish climate and diseases, and those of England and other countries /

Mode of access: Internet.

Geometrical amusements: or, A course of lessons in construction and analysis, in three parts ...

No more published.

A letter to the Right Rev. Bishop Hobart : in reply to the pamphlet addressed by him to the author, under the signature of Corrector.

"Fiche 1" consists of cataloging data in macroform.

A companion for the festivals and fasts of the Protestant Episcopal church in the United States of America : principally selected and altered from Nelson's Companion for the festivals and fasts of the Church of England ; with forms of devotion /

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