Making the Alliance Work: The United States and Western Europe. By Gregory F. Treverton (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1985. $24.95.) - Continuity of Discord: Crises and Responses in the Atlantic Community. Edited by Robert J. Jackson (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1985. Pp. 288. $33.95.)

1986 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
pp. 730-731
Author(s):  
Glenda G. Rosenthal
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
Atlantic Community

scholarly journals Collections, Compilations, and Convolutes of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in North America before ca. 1900

Fragmentology ◽  
10.24446/dlll ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 73-139
Author(s):  
Scott Gwara
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New York ◽  
North America ◽  
The United States ◽  
New York University ◽  
Historical Society ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
Private Collections ◽  
Public Exhibition

Using evidence drawn from S. de Ricci and W. J. Wilson’s Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, American auction records, private library catalogues, public exhibition catalogues, and manuscript fragments surviving in American institutional libraries, this article documents nineteenth-century collections of medieval and Renaissance manuscript fragments in North America before ca. 1900. Surprisingly few fragments can be identified, and most of the private collections have disappeared. The manuscript constituents are found in multiple private libraries, two universities (New York University and Cornell University), and one Learned Society (Massachusetts Historical Society). The fragment collections reflect the collecting genres documented in England in the same period, including albums of discrete fragments, grangerized books, and individual miniatures or “cuttings” (sometimes framed). A distinction is drawn between undecorated text fragments and illuminated ones, explained by aesthetic and scholarly collecting motivations. An interest in text fragments, often from binding waste, can be documented from the 1880s.

Theobald Smith, 1859-1934

1935 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 514-521
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
School Teacher ◽  
Medical Practitioner ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
Medical College ◽  
Short Course ◽  
Albany Medical College

Theobald Smith, son of Philip Smith by his wife Theresa nee Kexel, was born at Albany, New York, on July 31, 1859. He was educated at public schools there and afterwards went to Cornell University, where he graduated as B.Phil. in 1881. His material circumstances being small, and failing to obtain a post as school teacher, he resolved to study medicine and went to Albany Medical College of Union University whence he graduated as M.D. in 1883, after attending the very short course then prevailing in some medical schools in the United States. He was studious and already widely read as a youth. Being possessed of the good judgement which characterized him throughout life, he was clear in his mind that his training was insufficient to qualify him as a medical practitioner. At Cornell, he worked under two remarkable teachers, Professors Gage and Wilder, with great benefit as he afterwards acknowledged.

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