University of the United States: April 1, 1902U.S. Government Printing Office, 1902 - 192 páginas |
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Agricultural College American April 27 bill bureaus Chairman National University Chicago City Commissioner committee of fifteen Congress Constitution council DEAR GOVERNOR HOYT DEAR SIR December denominational departments District of Columbia efforts endowment enterprise Eppa Hunton Ex-Governor JOHN ex-president University ex-State superintendent Ex-United States Senator facilities favor Federal Government Geological Survey glad graduate higher education highest honor hope influence interest investigation Iowa J. W. HOYT January John Eaton John Lee Carroll JOHN W JOHN WESLEY HOYT learning letter matter ment movement national capital national committee National Educational Association National University Committee November November 26 Ohio organized patriotic political president University Professor promote proposed national university proposed university public instruction purpose receipt received respectfully schools scientific Simon Newcomb sincerely Smithsonian Institution success superintendent of public tion truly United university at Washington versity Washington Memorial Institution wish
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Página 87 - In other words, that when the Constitution of the United States vests in Congress the power to lay and collect taxes...
Página 73 - I proceed after this recital, for the more correct understanding of the case, to declare; that, as it has always been a source of serious regret with me, to see the youth of these United States sent to foreign countries for the purpose of education, often before their minds were formed, or they had imbibed any adequate ideas of the happiness of their own ; contracting too frequently, not only habits of dissipation and extravagance, but principles unfriendly to republican government, and to the true...
Página 73 - Looking anxiously forward to the accomplishment of so desirable an object as this is (in my estimation), my mind has not been able to contemplate any plan more likely to effect the measure, than the establishment of a UNIVERSITY in a central part of the United States...
Página 38 - I have greatly wished to see a plan adopted by which the arts, sciences, and belles-lettres could be taught in their fullest extent, thereby embracing all the advantages of European tuition, with the means of acquiring the liberal knowledge which is necessary to qualify our citizens for the exigencies of public as well as private life; and (which with me is a consideration of great magnitude) by assembling the youth from the different parts of this rising Republic, contributing from their intercourse...
Página 183 - To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing, for limited times, to authors and inventors the exclusive rights to their respective writings and discoveries; 9 To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court; 10.
Página 94 - That the objects of the corporation shall be to encourage, in the broadest and most liberal manner, investigation, research, and discovery, and the application of knowledge to the improvement of mankind ; and in particular — (a) To conduct, endow, and assist investigation in any department' of science, literature, or art.
Página 70 - That facilities for study and research in the government departments, the Library of Congress, the National Museum, the Zoological Park, the bureau of ethnology, the fish commission, the Botanic Gardens, and similar institutions hereafter established shall be afforded to scientific investigators and to duly qualified individuals, students, and graduates of institutions of learning in the several states and territories, as well as in the District of Columbia, under such rules and restrictions as the...
Página 84 - Whether this desirable object will be best promoted by affording aids to seminaries of learning already established ; by the institution of a national university ; or by any other expedients, will be well worthy of a place in the deliberations of the legislature.
Página 85 - ... to invite your attention to the advantages of superadding to the means of education provided by the several States a seminary of learning instituted by the National Legislature within the limits of their exclusive jurisdiction, the expense of which might be defrayed or reimbursed out of the vacant grounds which have accrued to the nation within those limits.
Página 27 - True it is that our country, much to its honor, contains many seminaries of learning highly respectable and useful ; but the funds upon which they rest are too narrow to command the ablest professors in the different departments of liberal knowledge for the institution contemplated, though they would be excellent auxiliaries.