Addresses Delivered Before the California Teachers' Association: At Riverside, December 28-31, 1891The University, 1892 - 74 pages |
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Page 66 - Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not...
Page 6 - March twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight (and the several Acts amendatory thereof ), subject only to such legislative control as may be necessary to insure compliance with the terms of its endowments, and the proper investment and security of its funds.
Page 68 - This habit of recognising principles amid the endless variety of their action can never degrade our sense of the sublimity of nature, or mar our enjoyment of its beauty. On the contrary, it tends to rescue our scientific ideas from that vague condition in which we too often leave them, buried among the other products of a lazy credulity...
Page 67 - Science appears to us with a very different aspect after we have found out that it is not in lecture rooms only, and by means of the electric light projected on a screen, that we may witness physical phenomena, but that we may find illustrations of the highest doctrines of science in games and gymnastics...
Page 68 - ... endless variety of their action can never degrade our sense of the sublimity of nature, or mar our enjoyment of its beauty. On the contrary, it tends to rescue our scientific ideas from that vague condition in which we too often leave them, buried among the other products of a lazy credulity, and to raise them into their proper position among the doctrines in which our faith is so assured that we are ready at all times to act on them.
Page 5 - California will forthwith organize and put into operation, upon this site, a University of California, which shall include a College of Mines, a College of Civil Engineering, a College of Mechanics and a College of Agriculture, and an Academical College, all of the same grade, and with courses of instruction equal to those of Eastern Colleges.
Page 67 - ... only, and by means of the electric light projected on a screen, that we may witness physical phenomena, but that we may find illustrations of the highest doctrines of science in games and gymnastics, in travelling by land and by water, in storms of the air and of the sea, and wherever...
Page 3 - The school year ending June 30, 1867, marks the transition period of California from rate-bill common schools to an American free school system.
Page 28 - ... to new ground, though not always in an unswerving line forward. Progress is not continuous, nor always at the same rate; there are periods of halting, and even of retrogression, when deterioration marks many of the phases of life, when a mortal disease appears to have smitten a whole civilization.