Digitizing the Halvey Photograph Collection, Step One
...ian Grady, and I used sampling to accomplish this task. After counting the number of envelopes in each box, we counted the number of negatives in a sample population of envelopes, as each envelope contains a sometimes vastly different number of negatives. Based on the results, we can reasonably estimate
Benedict Club: A Home Away From Home
...ladelphia Chiropody Society.[13] The club would also offer meals, with the Sunday roast being the most attended. Over the years as the club became more popular, the cost of running it increased from $21,000 during the first year to over $50,000 during the height of the war. Entrainment and food
Irish Land War
...nd War in Ireland over the centuries old landlordism system. By 1879, about 800 families owned half of the country’s land and acted as landlords, renting small plots of land out to the majority of the population (an estimated five million people). The Franco-Prussian war of 1870 and the American
Newman Centers
...lege.[7] FCCC 1917 While the Newman club at Penn was reforming, across the country during the early 1900s, other students were forming Catholic clubs. In 1915, seven New York colleges created the Federation of College Catholic Clubs to unite these separate groups. [8] Three years later it counted 19 members