| | 3 | Author: | Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 | Add | | | Title: | Crome yellow  | | | | Published: | 2003 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Along this particular stretch of line no express had ever passed.
All the trains--the few that there were--stopped at all the
stations. Denis knew the names of those stations by heart.
Bole, Tritton, Spavin Delawarr, Knipswich for Timpany, West
Bowlby, and, finally, Camlet-on-the-Water. Camlet was where he
always got out, leaving the train to creep indolently onward,
goodness only knew whither, into the green heart of England. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 4 | Author: | London, Jack, 1876-1916. | Add | | | Title: | The people of the abyss | | | | Published: | 2003 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE EXPERIENCES RELATED in this volume fell to me in the summer of
1902. I went down into the under-world of London with an attitude of
mind which I may best liken to that of the explorer. I was open to
be convinced by the evidence of my eyes, rather than by the
teachings of those who had not seen, or by the words of those who
had seen and gone before. Further, I took with me certain simple
criteria with which to measure the life of the under-world. That which
made for more life, for physical and spiritual health, was good;
that which made for less life, which hurt, and dwarfed, and
distorted life, was bad. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 6 | Author: | Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873 | Add | | | Title: | Essay on Liberty / John Stuart Mill | | | | Published: | 2003 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE subject of this Essay is not the so-called Liberty
of the Will, so unfortunately opposed to the misnamed doctrine of Philosophical Necessity; but Civil,
or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which
can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual.
A question seldom stated, and hardly ever discussed, in general terms, but which profoundly influences the practical
controversies of the age by its latent presence, and is likely
soon to make itself recognized as the vital question of the
future. It is so far from being new, that, in a certain sense,
it has divided mankind, almost from the remotest ages, but
in the stage of progress into which the more civilized portions of the species have now entered, it presents itself
under new conditions, and requires a different and more fundamental treatment. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 8 | Author: | Hadden, Jeffrey | Add | | | Title: | The Electronic Churches | | | | Published: | 2003 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | In recent years the
electronic church has become a source of great controversy.
The initial critics, largely mainline Protestant leaders,
charged that the electronic church constitutes a threat to
local congregations. The television preachers, critics
argued, make it too easy for people to get their religion in
the comfort of their living rooms. [1]
The perceived threat of
losing communicants from the pews and dollars from the
offering plate has resulted in a barrage of wide-ranging
attacks on the televangelists. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 13 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes | | | | Published: | 2003 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes | | | | Description: | The Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia met, in Open
Session, at 3:30 p.m., on Thursday, April 3,
2003, in the Lower West Oval Room of the Rotunda to elect a Rector and
Vice Rector; William H. Goodwin, Jr., Rector pro tempore, presided
according to the provisions of the manual of the Board
of Visitors specifying the procedures to be followed in the election of a
Rector. All Members of the Board were present save Mr. Thompson and Dr.
Vaughan. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 15 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes | | | | Published: | 2003 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes | | | | Description: | PAGE
Approval of the Minutes of the April 3-5, 2003, Meeting
6433
Election of the Executive Committee
6433
Designation of Standing Committees
6434
Naming of the Arena
6436
Revision of Section 2.36 of The Manual
6439
Approval of Architect Selection for the Studio Art
Building
6439
Approval of Engineer Selection for the Main Heating Plant
Modifications Project
6439
Approval of a Permanent Easement to the City of
Charlottesville for a Natural Gas Line on Whitehead Road
6440
Approval of a Permanent Easement for the University of
Virginia Across the Midmont Property Owned by the University of
Virginia Real Estate Foundation and the Midmont Lane Land
Trust
6440
Approval of Dedication to Public Use of a Strip of University
Land for Right Turn Lanes at the Ivy Road Entrance to the Emmet
Street Parking Garage
6440
Conflict of Interest Exemption (Margaret
Tarpley)
6441
Professorship Name Change: Lillian T. Pratt
Distinguished Professorship in Orthopaedic Surgery
6441
Re-election of Miller Center Council Members
6442
Approval of Participation of the Health Science Center
Garage and the Addition to the National Radio Astronomy
Observatory Building in the University’s Commercial Paper
Program
6442
PAGE
Approval of the Audit Schedule
6444
Approval of Expansion of the University of Virginia Policy
Statement Governing Exercise of Post- Appropriation Autonomy
for Certain Non-General Fund Capital Projects to Include
General Fund Projects
6444
Establishment of the Carolyn M.
BarbourProfessorship in Religious Studies
6445
Approval of the 2003-2004 Operating Budget for the Academic
Division
6446
Approval of the 2003-2004 Operating Budget for The
University of Virginia’s College at Wise
6446
Approval of the 2003-2004 Operating and Capital Budget for
the University of Virginia Medical Center
6446
Approval of Pratt Fund Distribution for 2003-2004
6446
Approval of Procurement of Environmental Services
6446
Approval of Procurement of Nutrition Services
6447
Approval of Revisions of the Bylaws of The University’s
College at Wise Board
6447
2004 Board Meeting Dates
6448
Approval of the Compliance Schedule
6448
Approval of the Summary of Audit and Compliance Findings
6448
Faculty Personnel Actions
Elections
6448
Actions Relating to Chairholders
Elections of Chairholders
6450
Change in the Title of a Chairholder
6451
Promotion of Chairholder
6452
Change of Title of Chairholders
6452
Special Salary Actions of Chairholders
6453
PAGE
Promotions
6454
Special Salary Actions
6462
Resignations
6464
Retirement
6465
Change in the Date of the Retirement of Mr. Staige D.
Blackford
6465
Appointments
6465
Re-Appointment
6466
Deaths
6466
The University of Virginia’s College at Wise Election of
Chairholder
6466
Special Salary Action
6467
Appointment
6467
Committee Actions – April 17 – May 23, 2003:
Actions of the UVIMCO Board, May 21,
2003
6489
Approval of Architectural Design Guidelines for the Studio
Art Building
6489
Approval of Schematic Design for the Rouss Hall Renovation
and Commerce School Project
6489
Preservation and Relocation of Varsity Hall
6489
Approval of Schematic Design for the Crockett Hall Renovation
at The University of Virginia’s College at Wise
6490
Approval of Architectural Design Guidelines for the
Performing Arts Center
6490
Approval of Architectural Design Guidelines for the Drama
Building Addition and Renovation at The University of
Virginia’s College at Wise
6490
Approval of Architectural Design Guidelines for the New
Residence Hall at The University of Virginia’s College at
Wise
6490 | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 19 | Author: | Twain
Mark
1835-1910 | Add | | | Title: | Roughing it | | | | Published: | 2003 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | University of Virginia Library, Early American Fiction, 1789-1875 | UVA-LIB-EarlyAmFict1789-1875 | | | | Description: | My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada
Territory — an office of such majesty that it concentrated
in itself the duties and dignities of Treasurer,
Comptroller, Secretary of State, and Acting Governor in the
Governor's absence. A salary of eighteen hundred dollars a
year and the title of “Mr. Secretary,” gave to the great position
an air of wild and imposing grandeur. I was young and
ignorant, and I envied my brother. I coveted his distinction
and his financial splendor, but particularly and especially the
long, strange journey he was going to make, and the curious
new world he was going to explore. He was going to travel!
I never had been away from home, and that word “travel” had
a seductive charm for me. Pretty soon he would be hundreds
and hundreds of miles away on the great plains and deserts,
and among the mountains of the Far West, and would see buffaloes
and Indians, and prairie dogs, and antelopes, and have
all kinds of adventures, and may be get hanged or scalped, and
have ever such a fine time, and write home and tell us all
about it, and be a hero. And he would see the gold mines
and the silver mines, and maybe go about of an afternoon
when his work was done, and pick up two or three pailfuls of
shining slugs, and nuggets of gold and silver on the hillside.
And by and by he would become very rich, and return home by
sea, and be able to talk as calmly about San Francisco and the
ocean, and “the isthmus” as if it was nothing of any consequence
to have seen those marvels face to face. What I
suffered in contemplating his happiness, pen cannot describe.
And so, when he offered me, in cold blood, the sublime position
of private secretary under him, it appeared to me that
ENVIOUS CONTEMPLATIONS.
504EAF. Page 020. In-line image of a man standing in plaid pants and talking
to a man sitting at a desk reading a news paper.
the heavens and the earth passed away, and the firmament
was rolled together as a scroll! I had nothing more to desire.
My contentment was complete. At the end of an hour or
two I was ready for the journey. Not much packing up was
necessary, because we were going in the overland stage from
the Missouri frontier to Nevada, and passengers were only
allowed a small quantity of baggage apiece. There was no
Pacific railroad in those fine times of ten or twelve years ago—
not a single rail of it. “Dear Sir: I fear I do not entirely comprehend your kind note. It cannot
be possible, Sir, that `turnips restrain passion'—at least the study or contemplation
of turnips cannot—for it is this very employment that has scorched our poor
friend's mind and sapped his bodily strength.—But if they do restrain it, will you
bear with us a little further and explain how they should be prepared? I observe
that you say `causes necessary to state,' but you have omitted to state them. `Potatoes do sometimes make vines; turnips remain passive: cause unnecessary
to state. Inform the poor widow her lad's efforts will be vain. But diet, bathing,
etc. etc., followed uniformly, will wean him from his folly—so fear not. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 20 | Author: | Cooke
John Esten
1830-1886 | Add | | | Title: | Mohun, or, The last days of Lee and his paladins | | | | Published: | 2003 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | University of Virginia Library, Early American Fiction, 1789-1875 | UVA-LIB-EarlyAmFict1789-1875 | | | | Description: | “Tell, you know who, that I have just seen the honorable
Mr. —” (here the writer gave the real name and official position
of Mr. X—), “and have had a long conversation with him.
He is fully convinced that I am a good Confederate, and spoke
without reserve of matters the most private. He is in high spirits,
and looks on the rebel cause as certain to succeed. I never
saw one more blinded to the real state of things. Richmond is
full of misery, and the people seem in despair, but this high official,
who represents the whole government, is evidently certain
of Lee's success. I found him in a garrulous mood, and he did
not conceal his views. The government has just received heavy
supplies from the south, by the Danville railroad—others are
coming—the whole country in rear of Sherman is rising—and
Lee, he stated, would soon be re-enforced by between fifty and seventy-five
thousand men. What was more important still, was a dispatch,
which he read me, from England. This startled me. There
seems no doubt that England is about to recognize the Confederacy.
When he had finished reading this dispatch, on the back
of which I could see the English postmark, he said to me—these
are his words:—`You see, things were never brighter; it is only
a question of time; and by holding out a little longer, we shall
compel the enemy to retire and give up the contest. With the
re-enforcements coming, Lee will have about one hundred thousand
men. With that force, he will be able to repulse all General
Grant's assaults. Things look dark at this moment, but the cause
was never more hopeful.' “I send this note to await your appearance at the Oaks. Come
and see me. Some old friends will give you a cordial greeting,
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