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Title: Phi Beta Kappa Scholar's Award Competition, 2014
Description: Call for submissions for the 2014 Phi Beta Kappa Scholar's Award Competition.
PID: grinnell:5129

Title: "Were You There" - Roland Hayes (1940), essay
Description: Essay about tenor Roland Hayes (188701977) and the negro spiritual "Were You There" published in 1940 on Columbia Masterworks.
PID: grinnell:19506

Title: $25.00 Reward
Description: Postcard sent by the Montezuma, Iowa, Chief of Police and the Northwestern National Insurance Company to the Sheriff's Office in Leon, Iowa, offering a $25.00 reward for information leading to the recovery of a 1932 Nash Sedan which was stolen in Montezuma on February 17, 1934. The postcard is postmarked February 21, 1934, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
PID: grinnell:12530

Title: 1946 Farm Record
Description: Farm record book published by C.A. Bacon, Hillsdale Michigan. This volume, published for 1946, has "1947" hand-written on the cover and contains records for the Raymond S. Pilgrim farm which was located in the northeast quarter of Section 27 of Grant Township in Poweshiek County, Iowa. The tables in the book are keyed to the federal income tax schedules. Schedules included are: Livestock bought and sold; sale of produce; labor expense; feed, seed, and supplies purchased; machines hired; repairs and maintenance; fertilizer; fuel and oil; interest paid; electricity and telephone; freight and trucking; veterinary and medicine; taxes paid; insurance; storage hired; rent of other lands and buildings; other miscellaneous expenses; depreciation of buildings, machinery, livestock, fences and drains; other income and other deductible expenses.
PID: grinnell:18937

Title: 1948 Farm Record
Description: Farm record book published by C.A. Bacon, Hillsdale Michigan. This volume, published for 1948, contains records for the Raymond S. Pilgrim farm which was located in the northeast quarter of Section 27 of Grant Township in Poweshiek County, Iowa. The tables in the book are keyed to the federal income tax schedules. Schedules included are: Livestock bought and sold; sale of produce; labor expense; feed, seed, and supplies purchased; machines hired; repairs and maintenance; fertilizer; fuel and oil; interest paid; electricity and telephone; freight and trucking; veterinary and medicine; taxes paid; insurance; storage hired; rent of other lands and buildings; other miscellaneous expenses; depreciation of buildings, machinery, livestock, fences and drains; other income and other deductible expenses.
PID: grinnell:18938

Title: A Discriminative Semi-Markov Model for Robust Scene Text Recognition
Description: We present a semi-Markov model for recognizing scene text that integrates character and word segmentation with recognition. Using wavelet features, it requires only approximate location of the text baseline and font size; no binarization or prior word segmentation is necessary. Our system is aided by a lexicon, yet it also allows non-lexicon words. To facilitate inference with a large lexicon, we use an approximate Viterbi beam search. Our system performs robustly on low-resolution images of signs containing text in fonts atypical of documents.
PID: grinnell:6266

Title: A Great Teacher of Politics
Description: Reflection on the contributions of Jesse Macy to the study of politics written on the occasion of his retirement from teaching.
PID: grinnell:18337

Title: A Mandate for Hypocrisy: The Black Studies Major at Grinnell College
Description: This is an essay chronicling the history of the black studies major at Grinnell College, with an emphasis on the reasons it had such a short career. It also provides an overview of the CBS Manifesto of 1971.
PID: grinnell:4958

Title: A New Story : Unifying Derry-Londonderry, Northern Ireland U.K.'s Competing Narratives
Description: Can Derry not only to successfully “rewrite” its past, but redirect its economic and social future?
PID: grinnell:330