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... department of learning . It will be not simply one more of the vast number of schools of aca- demic rank , but the crown and culmination of the now incomplete American system of education - a flowering of the magnificent growth we have ...
... department of learning . It will be not simply one more of the vast number of schools of aca- demic rank , but the crown and culmination of the now incomplete American system of education - a flowering of the magnificent growth we have ...
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... departments , and confer degrees in none of lower rank than those of master and doctor . Thirdly , a university of this ... department of the material , intellec- tual , and moral universe , and making new discoveries in aid of further ...
... departments , and confer degrees in none of lower rank than those of master and doctor . Thirdly , a university of this ... department of the material , intellec- tual , and moral universe , and making new discoveries in aid of further ...
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... Department of the United States- The Office of the Coast and Geodetic Survey . The Office of the Life - Saving Service . The Marine Hospital Service . The Bureau of Statistics . The Bureau of Engraving and Printing . In the War Department ...
... Department of the United States- The Office of the Coast and Geodetic Survey . The Office of the Life - Saving Service . The Marine Hospital Service . The Bureau of Statistics . The Bureau of Engraving and Printing . In the War Department ...
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... Department of Agriculture- The Botanical Division , with the gardens and grounds . The Division of Vegetable ... department of law and department of medicine . The Howard University , with its like departments . The Georgetown University ...
... Department of Agriculture- The Botanical Division , with the gardens and grounds . The Division of Vegetable ... department of law and department of medicine . The Howard University , with its like departments . The Georgetown University ...
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... departments had been so endowed as to command the best professional talent the country could afford . The movement ... department of scientific agriculture , and lectures were announced upon geology , ento- mology , chemistry , and ...
... departments had been so endowed as to command the best professional talent the country could afford . The movement ... department of scientific agriculture , and lectures were announced upon geology , ento- mology , chemistry , and ...
Términos y frases comunes
already approval April April 15 bill Bureau chairman citizens colleges Congress Constitution Cornell University DEAR SIR December December 20 demands denominational departments efforts endowment enterprise establish a national Establish the University Ex-United States Senator Federal glad Government higher education highest honor Hoyt important indorse influence institutions of learning interest Iowa James January John John Eaton John Lee Carroll knowledge lands letter liberty means ment Museum national capital National Educational Association national post-graduate university national university North Dakota November October October 22 OFFICE Ohio organization patriotic Pennsylvania political Potomac Company present President professors promote proposed national university proposed university proposition received Republic respectfully schools scientific seminary sincerely sity Smithsonian Institution success superintendent of public Swarthmore College tion truly United univer university at Washington University of Pennsylvania university proposition versity Virginia worthy youth
Pasajes populares
Página 11 - ... the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important, and what duty more pressing on its legislature, than to patronize a plan for communicating it to those, who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?
Página 156 - I suppose an amendment to the constitution, by consent of the States, necessary, because the objects now recommended are not among those enumerated in the constitution, and to which it permits the public moneys to be applied.
Página 38 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Página 41 - For these reasons it has been my ardent wish to see a plan devised on a liberal scale which would have a tendency to spread systematic ideas through all parts of this rising Empire, thereby to do away local attachments and State prejudices as far as the nature of things would, or indeed ought to admit, from our national councils.
Página 6 - I mean education generally, as one of the surest means of enlightening and giving just ways of thinking to our citizens, but particularly the establishment of a university; where the youth from all parts of the United States might receive the polish of erudition in the arts, sciences, and belleslettres...
Página 38 - The assembly to which I address myself is too enlightened not to be fully sensible how much a flourishing state of the arts and sciences contributes to national prosperity and reputation. 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...
Página 49 - I can not presume it to be unseasonable 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 39 - Amongst the motives to such an institution the assimilation of the principles, opinions, and manners of our countrymen, by the common education of a portion of our youth from every quarter, well deserves attention. The more homogeneous our citizens can be made in these particulars, the greater will be our prospect of permanent union...
Página 42 - ... whenever the dividends are made be laid out in purchasing stock in the Bank of Columbia or some other Bank at the discretion of my Executors, or by the Treasurer of the United States for the time being under the direction of Congress, provided that Honorable body should patronize the measure.
Página 31 - To the security of a free constitution it contributes in various ways: by convincing those who are intrusted with the public administration that every valuable end of government is best answered by the enlightened confidence of the people, and by teaching the people themselves to know and to value their own rights, to discern and provide against invasions of them, to distinguish between oppression and the necessary exercise of lawful authority...