Mr. Olmsted's Account of the Present Condition of the Slave Regions of the United States

1861 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 523
Author(s):  
Mr. Olmsted
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Present Condition

Broad Access and Steep Stratification in the First Mass System: High Participation Higher Education in the United States of America

2018 ◽  
pp. 227-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brendan Cantwell
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
System Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
Present Condition ◽  
History Of Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
High Participation ◽  
The Usa ◽  
History Of

This chapter provides a detailed and extensive assessment of the United States of America’s (USA) high participation systems (HPS) of higher education. It considers the history of higher education, system development, and the present condition of higher education in the country. The USA was the first HPS and the American system remains globally influential. Higher education in the USA is a massive enterprise, defined by both excellent and dubious providers, broad inclusion, and steep inequality. The chapter further examines higher education in the USA in light of the seventeen HPS propositions. Perhaps more so than any other system, the American HPS conforms to the propositions. Notably, higher education in the USA is both more diverse horizontally, and stratified vertically, than most other HPS.

scholarly journals The effect of grass on trees

1925 ◽  
Vol 97 (683) ◽  
pp. 284-321 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Clay Soil ◽  
Fruit Trees ◽  
The United States ◽  
Temperate Zone ◽  
Present Condition ◽  
Free Competition ◽  
Heavy Clay ◽  
The Tropics

In the meadows and pastures of the temperate regions and the tropics, trees flourish when surrounded by communities of grasses and herbs. Such grassland is, with few exceptions, an artificial product, created by man from areas originally forest, and maintained in its present condition by such agencies as grazing, cropping, mowing and manuring. If left to themselves most of the meadows and pastures on the earth’s surface would soon revert to the original forest, the rate depending on a number of circumstances, including the nature of the weapons possessed by the trees in suppressing the grasses and herbs. In the tropics, where pastures are much fewer than in the temperate zone, grassland after enclosure becomes covered by shrubs and trees with remarkable rapidity. Although trees soon oust grasses from the habitat under conditions of free competition, nevertheless cases occur in which grass is able to suppress certain species of trees. One such example has recently been investigated in great detail in Great Britain by the Duke of Bedford and the late Mr. S. U. Pickering. At the Woburn Experiment Station fruit trees such as apples, pears, plums and cherries failed to flourish under grass on a heavy clay soil. Similar results have been obtained in the United States and also on the Gangetic alluvium at Pusa.

scholarly journals Special report on the history and present condition of the sheep industry of the United States /

1892 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Ezra Ayers Carman ◽  
C. DuBois ◽  
Pierre A. Fish ◽  
Hubert A. Heath ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Present Condition ◽  
Special Report ◽  
Sheep Industry

Old Hickory's Violent Past Medical History

2018 ◽  
Vol 84 (11) ◽  
pp. 1717-1722
Author(s):  
Don K. Nakayama
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Native American ◽  
Medical History ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Senate ◽  
Present Condition ◽  
Past Medical History ◽  
Andrew Jackson ◽  
Native American Tribes ◽  
Prison Camp

The past medical history (PMH) of Andrew Jackson (1767–1845) reflects one of the emblematic nicknames in Americana, “Old Hickory.” As a 14-year-old Rebel volunteer in the Revolutionary War, he survived a blow from a British saber and smallpox that he contacted in a prison camp epidemic. In 1806, Jackson challenged a rival who had made the mistake of maligning his beloved wife Rachel. He deliberately allowed his opponent to shoot him in the chest, and then killed him when he took his turn. A gunshot shattered his arm in an 1813 street fight that involved Thomas Hart Benton, who later became his ally in the United States Senate during his presidency. His PMH would not include a duel in 1787, where both parties shot and somehow missed; an escape from a party of Indians in 1791; a shootout in 1796 with the future governor of Tennessee; and in 1833 and 1835, the first two assassination attempts on a United States President. Wracked from a lifetime of maladies and wounds, he sought relief through heavy doses of nostrums laced with heavy metals and self-phlebotomy. He likely hastened his own death. The PMH gives perspective on a patient's present condition. In Jackson's case, it reveals traits that allowed him to survive and thrive in a dangerous age. His belligerence, fiery temper, and intransigence were qualities that led to success in war against the British and the Native American tribes of the southern United States, and in a political career that climaxed as the seventh United States President.

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