FOR SUMMER
The Library now offers access to the full-text of the Historical New York Times, from its first edition in 1851, when the debate over slavery would lead this country to civil war, until the year 2004, when a black Senator from Illinois gave the keynote speech at the Demorcratic presidential convention - for over 150 years, the New York Times has been America's newspaper.
Articles are key-word searchable and scanned in .pdf format to appear as they did in print. Use the "page map" feature to determine where the individual article appeared columnwise in the paper. Articles can be saved, printed, or emailed. To sample the rich history available in this great new resource, use the following ProQuest search box: Thank you to the College's Venture Fund for partial funding of the Historical NYT.
New for the College's Archives
Through the College's Venture Fund, the Archives has just been able to complete the digitization of the entire run of the student newspapers starting with the Scriptorium (1932-1969) and the Cable (1977-present) as well as the student yearbooks (1937-2001).
Each page of these publications (all 12,171!) has been scanned and can be fully searched with the pages able to be printed, emailed, or saved. So check it out and see if you or anyone you know is a part of our history! Click here to search the newspapers and yearbooks
The Lamp of Knowledge and Wisdom
In both Christian as well as secular literature the concepts of knowledge, truth and wisdom have long been associated with light. These ideas are embodied in the Library's logo represented by a Greek oil lamp with an eternal flame. Like the lamp and its flame, the modern library illuminates the darkness of ignorance and provides the tools necessary to succeed in the pursuit of knowledge, truth and wisdom through lifelong learning
| | LITERARY PICKS | Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer's book is worth reading for many reasons, if not in the least, for an old person such as your reviewer, to remember the passion of youth. Chris McCandless rejects the material world of his parents and head out on an odyssey to live an "authentic" life, eventually leading him to venture into the wild of the Alaskan bush, with a .22 caliber rifle and ten pounds of rice. His emaciated body was found by hunters 19 days after his last journal entry. Was he an idealist? Or a fool? Ungrateful for the privilege his parents gave him? Or answering to a higher calling? Krakauer does his best to offer a vision into McCandless's soul, or perhaps to hold up a mirror to the readers.
Check out Into the Wild at the CSS Library |
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