Table of Contents

Among the manuscripts left by Earl C. Davis were a large collection concerning various aspects of the history of the Bible. Davis Baird has created two table of contents spanning all sixteen documents (fourteen lectures and two appendices). The primary document contains the full list of lectures as well as their sections. The supplementary file consists of the other table of contents, this one a shorter version which is just the list of lecture titles and appendices.https://commons.clarku.edu/origin_bible/1000/thumbnail.jp

Lecture XVI: Appendix: Additional Materials

Among the manuscripts left by Earl C. Davis were a large collection concerning various aspects of the history of the Bible, which are collected here. This Appendix assembles the six remaining manuscripts following Davis Baird\u27s organization of his grandfather\u27s Bible lectures. They are not part of the official lectures, but do add some information on the “origin and history of the Bible.” They include:(1) “Outline of Talk on Bible.” (2) List of people at the November 21, 1950 talk–item #1(3) “Second Evening. November 28, 1950.” Another outline (4) “Notes on Third Evening of Bible Study.” Another outline, likely for December 6, 1950 (5) “Lesson 2: Peter Waldo.” Unfortunately, no other lessons available. No date. (6) “List of Gospels” Date refers to Date Given. The primary downloadable document contains the original document followed by the transcription.The bottom of each item page also features the primary document as an embedded pdf for browsing. Transcription by Davis Baird. Item description based off writing and context provided by Davis Baird.https://commons.clarku.edu/origin_bible/1015/thumbnail.jp

Lecture I: The English Bible

A number of the manuscripts in this collection were organized into numbered lectures. Unfortunately, these did not include lectures 1 and 2. One manuscript, which curiously begins with “Results,” could be the basis for Lecture 1. It introduces the idea that “the Bible” is not a fully finished final document revealed as Scripture at birth, but rather is a text with a long history of creation, and, in particular with the English Bible, a long history tied to translation. This leads quite naturally to another manuscript, which starts with a question about the challenges of translation and moves from there into details about the challenges of “textual criticism.”. This could be lecture 2. And this lecture in turn leads into a manuscript identified as “lecture 3” that delves into detail on modern (c. 1900) textual criticism. To complicate matters, in addition to the manuscript that begins with “Results,” were several other separate manuscripts, all of which deal with various aspects to the history of the translation and birth of the English Bible. (1) “Septuagint” (2) “Historical Setting of the Translation,” which includes two pages of important dates (3) “John Wycliffe” (4) “Tyndale” (5) “Coverdale’s Bible” (6) “Important Dates” (7) “Outline of Points on the English Bible” These have been assembled by Davis Baird into a single narrative. This clearly is not the lecture Earl Davis wrote, but it does bring these various manuscripts together together in a sensible way. The primary downloadable document contains the original document followed by the transcription. The bottom of each item page also features the primary document as an embedded pdf for browsing. Curated and transcribed by Davis Baird. Item description slightly adapted from text written by Davis Baird.https://commons.clarku.edu/origin_bible/1001/thumbnail.jp

Tiling Billards on Triangle Tilings, and Interval Exchange Transformations

We consider the dynamics of light rays in triangle tilings where triangles are transparent and adjacent triangles have equal but opposite indices of refraction. We find that the behavior of a trajectory on a triangle tiling is described by an orientation-reversing three-interval exchange transformation on the circle, and that the behavior of all the trajectories on a given triangle tiling is described by a polygon exchange transformation. We show that, for a particular choice of triangle tiling, certain trajectories approach the Rauzy fractal, under rescaling.Comment: 31 pages, 19 figures, 2 appendices. Comments welcome

Cross-cultural literacy: An American imperative

The world is becoming a global village, say the experts. Just as individuals are dependent upon and, in turn, are depended on by their family, friends, and immediate communities, so are the nations of the world becoming highly interdependent (Brademas, 1987; Horne & Masson, 1988). The more this situation comes to pass, the more important does it become that we all make ourselves cross-culturally literate--that we become knowledgeable, that is, of the political and economic systems that exist around the world and of the many different ways people have of thinking, feeling, acting, and viewing things

Reclaiming academia from post-academia

Post-academic science, driven as it is by commercialisation and market forces, is fundamentally at odds with core academic principles. Publicly-funded academics have an obligation to carry out science for the public good, a responsibility which is incompatible with the entrepreneurial ethos increasingly expected of university research by funding agencies. Is nanoscience the "first full embodiment of post-academic science"? Have many of the traditional core values of publicly-funded university science been eroded to the point where they are now "part of a scientific mythology"? And is it "morally bankrupt" to draw a distinction between "pure" and "applied" science? These claims, which were all made in a recent commentary in Nature Nanotechnology b

Nurses\u27 Alumnae Association Bulletin, June 1967

President\u27s Message Officers and Committee Chairman Financial Report Report to Alumnae Association Nursing Service Report Operating Room Report School of Practical Nursing Report School of Nursing Report President Herbert\u27s Address (abstracted) Report from Africa Student Activities Nursing Service Staff Association Resume of Alumnae Meetings Way and Means Report Social Committee Building Fund Report Class News Notice