Annual Report of the American Historical AssociationU.S. Government Printing Office, 1890 |
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... directions , are being made in the Old World . It would probably be easy to show that notwithstanding all that spirit of enterprise of which we are justly proud as a national charac- teristic , there are many directions in which we have ...
... directions , are being made in the Old World . It would probably be easy to show that notwithstanding all that spirit of enterprise of which we are justly proud as a national charac- teristic , there are many directions in which we have ...
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... direction and service of M. Jules Quicherat , who continued to give it the inspiration of his ability till his death in 1882 . The purpose of the school was to train young scholars of exceptional promise in the sources of French history ...
... direction and service of M. Jules Quicherat , who continued to give it the inspiration of his ability till his death in 1882 . The purpose of the school was to train young scholars of exceptional promise in the sources of French history ...
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... direction of Théodore Sickel , a pupil trained in the French school . The second of the great Parisian schools to be mentioned is the Ecole normale supérieure . This celebrated school was founded as a kind of higher university for the ...
... direction of Théodore Sickel , a pupil trained in the French school . The second of the great Parisian schools to be mentioned is the Ecole normale supérieure . This celebrated school was founded as a kind of higher university for the ...
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... direction as early as 1743 , when Benjamin Frank- lin issued his circular entitled " A proposal for promoting use- ful knowledge among the British plantations in America , " in which it was urged " that a society should be formed of ...
... direction as early as 1743 , when Benjamin Frank- lin issued his circular entitled " A proposal for promoting use- ful knowledge among the British plantations in America , " in which it was urged " that a society should be formed of ...
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... direction upward of three hundred specimens of fossil bones had been brought from the famous Big Bone Lick and spread in one of the large unfinished rooms of the Presi- dential mansion . Dr. Wistar was asked to come to Philadel- phia ...
... direction upward of three hundred specimens of fossil bones had been brought from the famous Big Bone Lick and spread in one of the large unfinished rooms of the Presi- dential mansion . Dr. Wistar was asked to come to Philadel- phia ...
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Academy of Sciences Adams Address delivered AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION American Antiquarian Society American Historical Association American History ANDREW DICKSON Annual Antiquarian Society April arts Boston Cambridge CHARLES CARD CHARLES COLCOCK Charles Henry Hart CHARLES KENDALL Church College Congress Connecticut copies printed December Education electrotyped Encyclopædia established February Fisheries French G. P. Putnam's Sons GEORGE BROWN HART HERBERT BAXTER illustrated James January Jefferson JOHN FLETCHER JOHN WATTS John Wilson JONES July June Justin Winsor Lamb Library Magazine of American Magazine of Western maps MARTHA Massachusetts Historical Society Memoir ment Monthly North November observatory October Office Ohio paper PAUL LEICESTER PEYSTER Philadelphia Philosophical Society plates political portrait President Privately printed Proceedings Prof Professor published Report Reprinted Review ROBERT CHARLES SAMUEL ABBOTT Samuel Abbott Green scientific Secretary seminary SMITH Territory tion United University Virginia Washington WHEILDON William Stevens Perry WILLIAM WILLDER Winthrop York
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Page 149 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts...
Page 149 - ... that a sum not exceeding ten per centum upon the amount received by any State under the provisions of this act, may be expended for the purchase of lands for sites or experimental farms, whenever authorized by the respective Legislatures of said States.
Page 176 - Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
Page 148 - ... there are public lands in a State subject to sale at private entry at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre...
Page 60 - Cambridge, public schools, and grammar schools in the towns; to encourage private societies and public institutions, rewards and immunities, for the promotion of agriculture, arts, sciences, commerce, trades, manufactures, and a natural history of the country; to countenance and inculcate the principles of humanity and general benevolence, public and private charity, industry and frugality, honesty and punctuality in their dealings; sincerity, good humor, and all social affections, and generous sentiments...
Page 149 - That in no case shall any State to which land scrip may thus be issued be allowed to locate the same within the limits of any other State...
Page 150 - Any State which may take and claim the benefit of the provisions of this act, shall provide, within five years, at least, not less than one college, as described in the fourth section of this act, or the grant to such State shall cease, and said State shall be bound to pay the United States the amount received of any lands previously sold, and that the title to purchasers under the State shall be void.
Page 151 - Territory established, or which may hereafter be established, in accordance with the provisions of an Act approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, entitled "An Act donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agricultural and the mechanic arts...
Page 56 - A Proposal for Promoting Useful Knowledge among the British Plantations in America.
Page 149 - That the grant of land and land scrip hereby authorized shall be made on the following conditions, to which, as well as to the provisions hereinbefore contained, the previous assent of the several States shall be signified by legislative acts: First.