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Página 187 - That man, I think, has had a liberal education who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of; whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine, with all its parts of equal strength, and in smooth working order; ready, like a steam engine, to be turned to any kind of work, and spin the gossamers as well as forge the anchors of the mind...
Página 184 - ... whose mind is stored with a knowledge of the great and fundamental truths of Nature and of the laws of her operations; one who, no stunted ascetic, is full of life and fire, but whose passions are trained to come to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of a tender conscience; who has learned to love all beauty, whether of Nature or of art, to hate all vileness, and to respect others as himself.
Página 272 - Territory shall be twenty-five thousand dollars, to be applied only to instruction in agriculture, the mechanic arts, the English language and the various branches of mathematical, physical, natural and economic science, with special reference to their applications in the industries of life, and to the facilities for such instruction...
Página 272 - ... 30,000 acres of public lands for each Senator and Representative in Congress under the apportionment based on the census of 1860.
Página 183 - This definition is by no means complete ; but it is used merely as indicative of the manner in which this subject has generally been discussed. Under physical education is included all that relates to the organs of sensation, and the muscular and nervous system. Intellectual education comprehends the means by which the powers of the understanding are to be developed and improved, and a view of the various branches of knowledge which form the objects of instruction of the three departments into which...
Página 187 - That man, I think, has a liberal education, whose body has been so trained in youth that it is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all that, as a mechanism, it is capable of...
Página 183 - Education In a broad sense, with reference to man, comprehends all that disciplines and enlightens the understanding, corrects the temper, cultivates the taste, and forms the manners and habits...
Página 84 - SURVEYING. BY JB JOHNSON, PROFESSOR OF CIVIL ENGINEERING* WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, ST. LOUIS NEW YORK: JOHN WILEY & SONS, COPYRIGHT, 1892, BY JB JOHNSON.
Página 6 - K, the price of which is ao cents. We desire to express our thanks to the regents of the university for affording the means of placing the same before the commercial teachers of this country. DW SPRINGER, Chairman.
Página 83 - Engineers, the American Institute of Mining Engineers, and the American Society of Civil Engineers; further there is one representative each from the four more important non-founder societies.

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