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The Presidential Election of 1932
While with the keen eyes of twenty-twenty hindsight, later analysts were able to see in Roooevelt' s adresses many indications of later developments, the public was by no means equally aware of what was in store for them ...
A Southern Intellectual Community: A Sociological Inquiry
The immediate pupose of this thesis is to make a sociological analysis of Washington and Lee University as a Southern intellectual community during the first three decades of the present century. It is not here suggested ...
W. H. Auden's Sociological Concern: Influences of Marx, Freud, and Lawrence in His Early Poetry
In evaluating the early poetry of W. H. Auden, one cannot escape the conclusion that social problems are his primary concern. Although the same might be said of many recent poets, there are few who approach the issues of ...
Edith Wharton's Evolutionary Monster; Undine Spragg of The Custom of the Country
In Wharton's own words she describes her intent for the book, "I argued that in The Custom of the Country I was chronicling the career of a particular young woman, and that to whatever hemisphere her fortunes carried her, ...
Parallel Lives: Adams and Cicero, Hamilton and Caesar, and the Quasi-War with France, 1797-1800
The framers of the Constitution looked to the Roman and Greek states for guidance. To be educated was to know Latin and Greek, and to have read the ancient historians and philosophers. But among the many talented men who ...
The Gerund in Old English: A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Washington and Lee University for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy
Although the gerund is widely familiar to students of languages, and despite the fact that it is used perhaps more freely in Old English than in any other language, I have been unable to find any complete treatment of the ...
Rotation Remainders
An object in mathematics that first appears for the sake of amusement can demonstrate deep connections with well-known questions about numbers. Consider an array of numbers formed by a rotating queue: starting with just ...
Evolved Recursive Distributed Representations
Computer Science has become increasingly biologically inspired, with neural networks and evolutionary computing gaining increased prominence in the field. Recently, several difficulties
with modeling connectionist networks ...
The Relationship Between Psychological Androgyny and Performance on Piagetian Spatial Tasks in College Women
Past research has shown that males typically perform better than
females on Piagetian spatial tasks. Other studies indicate that
when a task is labelled "masculine" or "feminine", subjects tend
to perform better in the ...