Transactions of the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, Volume 11Beriah Brown, State Printer, 1873 Published with vol. 21-25: Transactions of the Wisconsin State Horticultural Society, vol. 13-17, and Annual report of the Wisconsin Dairymen's Association, no. 11-15; with vol. 22-25: Annual report of the Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of Wisconsin, no. 1-4. |
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Page 55 - 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 228 - Oh, Christ! it is a goodly sight to see What Heaven hath done for this delicious land: What fruits of fragrance blush on every tree! What goodly prospects o'er the hills expand!
Page 55 - ... 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, * * * in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions of life.
Page 245 - It has been said that he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before is a benefactor to his species.
Page 75 - Mortals, that would follow me, Love virtue; she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.
Page 10 - AMENDMENTS. This constitution may be amended by a vote of two-thirds of the members attending any annual meeting...
Page 54 - WISDOM. To some she is the goddess great ; To some the milch cow of the field ; Their care is but to calculate What butter she will yield.
Page 406 - Our first and oldest record regarding the labors of our race is in these words: •"And the Lord, God, took the man and put him into the Garden of Eden, to dress and to keep it.
Page 73 - For many years it has been one of my constant regrets, that no schoolmaster of mine had a knowledge of natural history, so far at least as to have taught me the grasses that grow by the wayside, and the little winged and wingless neighbors that are continually meeting me, with a salutation which I cannot answer, as things are...
Page 72 - We think it established that the study of natural science develops, better than any other studies, the observing faculties; disciplines the intellect by teaching induction as well as deduction; supplies a useful balance to the studies of language and mathematics, and provides much instruction of great value for the occupations of after-life.