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Title: Tricks of the Trade: Getting Going the First Day, Statistics in the Liberal Arts Workshop (SLAW), Technical Report No. 94-003
Description: What can we do the first day of class to give students a feel for what to expect in the course and generate some enthusiasm for learning and statistics? To investigate this question, a number of prominent statistics educators were recently asked "What do you like to do in your first class of the semester"? Their responses and experiences of the author are summarized in this paper to provide a collection of tips, stories, topics for generating discussion, and general advice for getting a course going in a positive direction.
Date Created: 1994
PID: grinnell:26705

Title: Tubercular Vistas: Rewriting Thomas Mann in Hebrew, Dis/Unity and Difference (Center for the Humanities theme for 2018-2019), Jewish Studies Today
Description: Announcement of two events featuring Sunny Yudkoff, an assistant professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: a talk on Hebrew modernist David Vogel and a conversation with students about Jewish studies today.
Date Created: 2019
PID: grinnell:27784

Title: Two Letters, Letter to Raymond Pilgrim from Mildred, Letter to Mildred from Esther Rowe
Description: Two letters in an envelope addressed to Raymond Pilgrim in Lindsay, California, and postmarked February 2, 1913 in Cedar Falls, Iowa. One letter is written by Mildred to Raymond. Mildred encloses a letter that was written to her by Esther Rowe for Raymond to read. Mildred's letter, which is written on I.S.T.C. (Iowa State Teachers College) stationery, describes a fire in a women's rooming house.
Date Created: 1913
PID: grinnell:17771

Title: Uncommon Carriers: The Effective Regulation of Net Neutrality
Description: Explores issues with the regulation of internet providers as common carriers by the Federal Communications Commission.
Date Created: 2015
PID: grinnell:11386

Title: Union Bargaining Power in an Efficiency Wage Environment
Description: Article about Union Bargaining Power in an efficiency wage environment
Date Created: 1994
PID: grinnell:11679

Title: Union Township Freewill School
Description: Reminiscences of Garnette Steele Wheeler about the Freewill School, an early subscription school in Union Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa, compiled by Cecily Unruh. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Pamphlet file. Poweshiek County (Iowa) -- History -- Union Township.
Date Created: 2009
PID: grinnell:13069

Title: Universal Basic Income, The Bipartisan Roots of the Universal Basic Income
Description: Announcement of a talk by John Price, Grinnell College Life Trustee and former special assistant to President Richard Nixon, on the bipartisan origins of universal basic income.
Date Created: 2019
PID: grinnell:27791

Title: Unknown to Unknown, January (?), 1859
Description: The letter seems to be a fragment. The first paragraph discusses the where the writer lives, and details of the surrounding area. The second paragraph discusses information concerning state government and jurisdiction districts. Also mentioned is the State University [later University of Iowa].
Date Created: 1859
PID: grinnell:12340

Title: Unlikely (Deconstructive) Theological Parallels: John Caputo and Rowan Williams, Unlikely Theological Parallels: John Caputo and Rowan Williams
Description: Presents an argument for a deconstructive approach to a comparison of the theology of John Caputo and Rowan Williams
Date Created: 2010
PID: grinnell:49