These forceps, basically a type of surgical pincers, are based on a set that were so well-crafted they have been little improved upon in nearly two thousand years. Found at Pompeii and dating to 79 CE ...

The Ada Comstock Scholars Program is a transfer program for those who did not follow a traditional path to college. Ada Comstock Scholars complete a bachelor’s degree at a realistic pace, either ...

Many fine examples of wooden and clay mechanical string toys have been found in the tombs of Ancient Egypt. The original of this particular wooden crocodile is believed to be from 1100 BCE and is on ...

The importance of shopping small is heavily emphasized during the holiday season, and both the Smith and local Northampton ...

The potter's wheel was widely used by the beginning of the third phase of the Early Bronze Age, about 2400 BCE. Pottery cannot be made by hand modeling or coiling without the potter either turning the ...

Gary Hartwell (center), project manager in Facilities Management, explains the workings of the new North District geothermal ...

The Smith eDigest is sent to all campus e-mail accounts on Tuesday and Thursday each week during the academic year, and on Tuesday during the summer, providing important notices, college news, links ...

For almost 150 years, Smith has stood as a beacon for knowledge, equality, and progress—while at the same time upholding unique traditions that have come to define the Smith experience. A college rich ...

In this photograph, Julia Stephen and her children are standing outside the dining room window at Talland House. Virginia Woolf is bending down to pet their dog. This was their last summer at St. Ives ...

The first edition of The Bell Jar was published in England on January 14, 1963 under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas. The novel was not published in the United States until 1971 because Aurelia Plath was ...

Mathematics is one of the oldest disciplines of study. For all its antiquity, however, it is a modern, rapidly growing field. Only 70 years ago, mathematics might have been said to consist of algebra, ...

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