Engineering at Gettysburg College

This little volume narrates the story of engineering instruction at Gettysburg College, particularly of the Engineering Department that functioned from 1912 to 1940. It includes also an account of the apparently first venture in engineering by an American liberal arts college, undertaken during the brief association of the renowned Herman Haupt with Gettysburg College between 1837 and 1847. Time dims our memories. Although there are more than fifty living alumni who were graduated from the Engineering Department, many Gettysburgians are unaware of its existence and accomplishments. The purpose of this story is to place on record a significant aspect of our tradition. [excerpt]https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/collegehistory/1000/thumbnail.jp

A mathematical model of plant nutrient uptake

The classical model of plant root nutrient uptake due to Nye. Tinker and Barber is developed and extended. We provide an explicit closed formula for the uptake by a single cylindrical root for all cases of practical interest by solving the absorption-diffusion equation for the soil nutrient concentration asymptotically in the limit of large time. We then use this single root model as a building block to construct a model which allows for root size distribution in a more realistic plant root system, and we include the effects of root branching and growth. The results are compared with previous theoretical and experimental studies

The Task of the Survivor in Ruth Klüger’s «weiter leben» (1992) and «Still Alive» (2001)

Ruth Klüger’s German and English memoirs provide a unique opportunity to consider intersections between memory, survival, and self-translation. A Benjaminian interpretation of Klüger’s memoirs, weiter leben: Eine Jugend (1992) and Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered (2001), addresses the question of what meanings accrue to survival as it unfolds over 50 years and in two memoirs and languages. Echoing the ethical interventions articulated by Benjamin in «The Task of the Translator», I identify the ways in which Still Alive asserts itself as a translation

05, Kerver\u27s Widow and Female Printers in Sixteenth-Century France

After the Parisian printer Thielman Kerver died in 1522, his widow Iolande Bonhomme took over his shop at the Sign of the Unicorn in the Rue St. Jacques, and in 1526 she produced the first Bible printed by a woman. This essay discusses Bonhomme\u27s assumption of the business and the roles and skills open to the widows of certain tradesmen in medieval France.https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/kerverbook/1008/thumbnail.jp