Please feel free to contact Ms. Sanborn (lsanborn at sps dot edu) for a research consultation and/or to discuss any of the items in this guide.

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Please feel free to contact Ms. Sanborn (lsanborn at sps dot edu) for a research consultation and/or to discuss any of the items in this guide.

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The ice in the School Pond this year has averaged about thirty-six inches thick.  Under the S. P. S. rink, which is kept clear of snow, it must have been close to the record thickness of forty-six inches.

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1. From the Archives: Clearing the Ice
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Registering must be done from an SPS networked computer.  Following this, users may then access their ArtStor account from off the grounds.

ArtStor has written more detailed instructions about registering for an account HERE.

Or watch their YouTube video below:

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The Encyclopedia of Middle East Wars

Find it in Ohrstrom at: REF 973.928 T79M

A 5-volume set focusing on U.S. involvement and engagement in conflicts in the Middle East.

Entry Examples:

• Aircraft, Reconnaissance
• Casualties, Operation Enduring Freedom
• Egypt, Armed Forces
• Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
• Warlords, Afghanistan

Helpful for: Political Studies, Military Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Humanities, History, Global Studies

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In the first few days after examinations it was not an unusual sight to see someone in the afternoon wandering around the Upper School in pyjamas [sic].  To sleep all afternoon, and rise only in time for afternoon tea seemed to be the thing for the mentally exhausted.

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In Celebration of Cricket: From School Sport to Celebrated Tradition is available in ePub format for download and viewing on your iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch devices with iBooks installed.  It has been designed specifically for viewing in iBooks, but can also be read with a more basic layout on any eBook reader that supports the ePub file format.

You can download this new eBook by clicking HERE.

This eBook presentation is a companion to the archives online exhibit of the same name viewable HERE.  It contains photographs from the St. Paul’s School archives collection and includes descriptions and information related to the history of the game of cricket at SPS and the enduring popularity of the Cricket Holiday tradition.

Visit the Ohrstrom Library Digital Archives eBook page to see other available titles by clicking HERE.

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Lend Me Your Ears: Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations

Find it in Ohrstrom at: REF 808.88 Ox2P

A compendium of politically-related quotes.

Examples:

• Joan Baez – “The only thing that’s been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.”
• Saul Bellow – “Sitting tight is power.”
• Michael Heseltine – “The market has no morality.”
• Jean-Pierre Raffarin – “We have a country which loves ideology, and we need pragmatism.”
• Grover A. Whalen – “There’s a lot of law at the end of a nightstick.”

Helpful for: Political Studies, Humanities, History, Global Studies

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One of the most familiar sights of the winter has been the big, four-horse sleigh which has transported the children of the neighborhood to school in Concord…Those whose memories go back to the dark ages of St. Paul’s will be interested to know that the sleigh in question is the famous old “Daniel Webster,” which was used for the Washington’s Birthday expeditions to Canterbury.

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2. October 31, 1919

Please feel free to contact Ms. Sanborn (lsanborn at sps dot edu) for a research consultation and/or to discuss any of the items in this guide.

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