Assumption College Home Page

http://www.assumption.edu/ (World Wide Web Directory, 06/1995)

Assumption College Home Page

Welcome to the Assumption College (Worcester, Massachusetts, USA) World-Wide-Web Service. (That's "Woos-ter", not "Wor-chest-er"; there is no "h".) By now you are probably tired of seeing the message "under construction" when you browse the Internet, but because most of the stuff on the "information superhighway" is new and rapidly changing, it's true here, too. (It will probably ALWAYS be so.) If you are at Assumption, see Dr. Fry or Nick Chase for help if you get stuck. If you are connecting from off-campus, may the great gods of the Internet smile upon you.

Available From Assumption

Welcome to Assumption - a visual tour. JPEG images; requires Netscape browser.
Assumption Gopher Server - provides information about Assumption College, including the complete course offerings and current athletic schedules, and a connection to other gophers of interest to the Assumption community.
Daylilies Online, an experimental project. JPEG images; requires Netscape browser.
The Contrarian's View investment newsletter (under construction) - published since 1986 by Nick Chase; the current issue and ALL of the back issues will be available. Internet access to The Contrarian's View is provided through the generosity of Assumption College; the college reserves the right to discontinue this service at any time.

Neat Things to See

Art museums and galleries: Bodleian library (Oxford) illustrated manuscripts; Carlos Museum (Atlanta, Georgia); The Electric Gallery, paintings for sale; Graffiti Art from Georgia Tech; Japanese prints at the University of Washington (Tacoma); Krannert Art Museum (Urbana-Champaign, Illinois); La Trobe University Art Museum (Melbourne); Treasures of The Louvre, or tour The Louvre with Le WebLouvre; National Archaeological Museum of Cardiari (text in Italian); photo exhibits at the California Museum of Photography (Riverside); The Virtual Museum from the French Ministry of Culture (text in French); Weisman Art Museum (University of Minnesota). Through Ohio State University, access other museums and galleries.
Comet Shoemaker-Levy - from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, pictures of the July 1994 collision of the comet with Jupiter. Also from NASA, tap into the Astro-2 observatory aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour.
Interactive Frog Dissection from the University of Virginia.
Jerusalem Mosaic, a tour of Jerusalem provided by Hebrew University; also, seek Jewish roots in Berlin and Prague, or access other Jewish resources through the Jewish Information Network.
Foreign country tours: Canada and Ireland.
Especially for Assumptionists: The Bible (in French), with cross-references to English (King James), German and Latin Vulgate versions; a Guide to Early Church Documents; and a gateway to other Catholic documents..
From Wired Ventures, Roadside America Hypertour '94, a summer-1994 visual tour of weird places to visit in the continental United States; or, take the Lighthouse Getaway, or tour Covered Bridges near Philadelphia (via Drexel University).
Library of Congress exhibits: 1492: An Ongoing Voyage; Scrolls from the Dead Sea; Soviet Archives; Vatican Exhibit. Or, click on EXPO to enter through the front door and see all four exhibits, plus exhibits from other places.

Zines on the Net

Full-text magazines and newspapers include: InterText, Mother Jones, Webster's Weekly, and the San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle. Or, connect with Time Warner's Pathfinder service, or Ziff Publishing's Best News Sources for other electronic publications.

And Away We Go.....

Some good entry points into the Internet are: the Global Network Navigator from O'Reilly & Associates; GoldSite Europe; EINet Galaxy from MCC; NCSA's Network Starting Points; the WWW Virtual Library; Scott Yanoff's Special Internet Connections; and Ziff Publishing's Best Home Pages. (Of interest to Assumption faculty are the TERC, UMass [Amherst] and Mass. LearnNet home pages.) Have a credit card handy? You can also go shopping for consumer items on the Internet Shopping Network or through marketplaceMCI, and buy computer equipment through the Online Computer Market. And, you can access commercial "timesharing" services: AstraNet (Prodigy); Compuserve; Delphi.

This page was last updated April 10, 1995 by webmasterNick Chase (nick15@eve.assumption.edu).