Memorial in Regard to a National UniversityU.S. Government Printing Office, 1892 - 123 страница |
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... Present equal division of powers and responsibilities in Congress . Present condition of the country favorable . The present earnest efforts of two powerful churches for a true univer- sity but a reënforcement of the argument for a ...
... Present equal division of powers and responsibilities in Congress . Present condition of the country favorable . The present earnest efforts of two powerful churches for a true univer- sity but a reënforcement of the argument for a ...
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... present minister to Russia : Address , Detroit , 1874 .. Papers by , in Forum , 1888 - '89 . Wight , Dr. O. W. , preparation of bill by , 1872 .. Wilde , Hon . R. H. , report as chairman , 1816 .. Wilson , Hon . James , in ...
... present minister to Russia : Address , Detroit , 1874 .. Papers by , in Forum , 1888 - '89 . Wight , Dr. O. W. , preparation of bill by , 1872 .. Wilde , Hon . R. H. , report as chairman , 1816 .. Wilson , Hon . James , in ...
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... present the memorial of Hon . John W. Hoyt in regard to a Na- tional University , with an accompanying document , which is a very valuable his- torical statement on that subject . I move that it be printed and referred to the Se- lect ...
... present the memorial of Hon . John W. Hoyt in regard to a Na- tional University , with an accompanying document , which is a very valuable his- torical statement on that subject . I move that it be printed and referred to the Se- lect ...
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... present bear the high title of which they anxiously hope to make them some day worthy . Following the example of the German universities , several of our greater institutions have bravely thrown their forces across the line and are ...
... present bear the high title of which they anxiously hope to make them some day worthy . Following the example of the German universities , several of our greater institutions have bravely thrown their forces across the line and are ...
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... present , to that modicum of attainments which barely represents the bachelor's degree , but rather such as , beginning with the bachelor's grade , would meet the demands of students aspiring to the highest possible attainments in their ...
... present , to that modicum of attainments which barely represents the bachelor's degree , but rather such as , beginning with the bachelor's grade , would meet the demands of students aspiring to the highest possible attainments in their ...
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already American university annual appropriate arts Benjamin Peirce bill Bureau central character citizens civil colleges committee Cong Congress Constitution contribute culture demand departments District of Columbia duty educa efforts endowment establishment existing faculty favor Federal City genius give Government higher education highest honor Hoyt idea important instruction intellectual interest James James Madison James River James Smithson Jefferson John knowledge land legislature Legrand W liberal liberty Louis Agassiz Madison means ment mind national capital National Educational Association national university object organization patriotic political Potomac Potomac Company present President principles Prof professors promote proper proposed proposition purpose reason Republic Samuel Blodget schools science and learning scientific seminary Senator sess Smithsonian Institution society statesmen Superintendent thought tion true university United university proposition vast versity Virginia whole worthy youth
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Страница 87 - O God ! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea : and, other times, to see The beachy girdle of the ocean Too wide for Neptune's hips...
Страница 39 - ... a primary object of such a national institution should be 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?
Страница 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.
Страница 41 - 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...
Страница 105 - The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection ? The Chair hears none, and it is so ordered.
Страница 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...
Страница 87 - God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea! and, other times, to see The beachy girdle of the ocean Too wide for Neptune's hips; how chances mock, And changes fill the cup of alteration With divers liquors!
Страница 42 - 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...
Страница 41 - ... the only means of preserving our constitution from its natural enemies, the spirit of sophistry, the spirit of party, the spirit of intrigue, the profligacy of corruption, and the pestilence of foreign influence, which is the angel of destruction to elective governments...
Страница 42 - ITEM — I give and bequeath in perpetuity the fifty shares which I hold in the Potomac Company (under the aforesaid Acts of the Legislature of Virginia) towards the endowment of a University to be established within the limits of the District of Columbia, under the auspices of the General Government, if that Government should incline to extend a fostering hand towards it...