Eighty Acres: Elegy for a Family Farm

Arthur J. Viseltear: A Student's Elegy

Driving back from Professor Viseltear's funeral, a friend presented us with a paradox. By temperment and training that friend was a medical materialist; he believed in what he could see and study-in tissues and cells, molecules and atoms. Within such a world the spiritual seemed to have little foundation, and yet he wasn't ready to believe that with the ceasing of Professor Viseltear's heart hi...

Acres of Skin

Acres of Skin presents an angry, distressing and provoking description of human experimentation within the American prison system. Specifically, it focuses upon experiments conducted by investigators from the University of Pennsylvania at the nearby Holmesburg Prison, from 1951 until 1974. The research was halted following congressional hearings in 1973 which revealed incidents of misuse or pot...

Labour on the Family Farm: a Theory under Uncertainty

365 Dawson, P.J., 1988. Labour on the family farm: a theory under uncertainty. Agric. Econ., 1:365-380. This paper develops a theory of the family farm in conditions of uncertainty where attention is focussed on the labour-input decisions. Specifically, the farm family is faced with two labour decisions, namely with respect to hired labour and to family labour. The framework for analysis is exp...

A tower of paper spanning eighty years.

Euterpe’s Hidden Song: Patterns in Elegy

This poster presentation is the culmination of an extensive statistical study of Latin elegy. The notion that poetic sound represents a distinct layer of information where discrete patterns can be found is an intriguing one. In a theoretical context, sound captures a "metalanguage" that is universal to all discourse, but only exposed in poetry. This poster develops a model for metalanguage and ...