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The Great Hall: A Story of Promise, Lost Opportunity, and the Value of the Liberal Arts

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Proctor, Jenna Marie

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The liberal arts have always struggled to find their place in the technically oriented land-grant university. Land-grant universities were tasked by the 1862 Morrill Act with providing both a practical and liberal education for all students. The liberal arts, however, were quickly sidelined from this dual purpose with the increasing...

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Value of the Liberal Arts by Jenna Marie Proctor A THESIS submitted to Oregon
The Stories We Will Tell : An Exploration of Family History through Autobiography and Record Analysis

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Peabody, Anna M.

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The research of genealogy and family history can represent a means of self-discovery, connection, and preservation of the past. The experience is individualistic, unique to the intricate intertwining of lives that helped create and influence who we are today. Through the analysis of historical biographies, family documents, and autobiographical vignettes,...

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. With Helen, Tomas had four more children, again all born in Hartshorne: Anne Marie in 1915, Veronica
Under the Shadow of this Red Rock: Reading T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land for its Places, Persons, and Poetics

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Summers, Stephen James

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Thomas Stearns Eliot’s 1922 modernist poem The Waste Land presents itself as an alternative to the decaying society Eliot found himself inhabiting. It begins as a personal means of pulling together one’s fragmented consciousness, but in doing so Eliot manages to present a solution to a world of selfishness—looking beyond...

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the pragmatic Sosostris and her poisonous “Belladonnas.” Marie longs for a past that has gone away