 ... of the military academy at West Point and the naval academy at Annapolis, and giving members of Congress another excuse for neglecting their proper legislative functions to busy themselves with patronage.  The Medical World - Page 21894Full view - About this book
 | Massachusetts. Board of Education - 1859 - 518 pages
...institutions to accomplish a definite object, when that object could be as well secured without their agency. The Military Academy at West Point, and the Naval Academy at Annapolis, both supported at great cost by the General Government, have each a distinct purpose to effect* and... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - 1896 - 1250 pages
...Sandhurst, and the Royal Naval College at Portsmouth. It is also used in this sense in America, as the Military Academy at West Point, and the Naval Academy at Annapolis, but in its unambitious sense it means an institution for secondary education. In its wider or continental... | |
 | Charles Henry Winston, Richard M. Smith, D. Lee Powell, John Meredith Strother, H. H. Harris, John Patrick McGuire, Rodes Massie, William Fayette Fox, Harry Fishburne Estill (F.), Richard Ratcliffe Farr, John Lee Buchanan, George R. Pace - 1872 - 650 pages
...which secure free tuition for five years, thereby copying the worst feature in the organization of the military academy at West Point and the naval academy at Annapolis, and giving members of Congress another excuse for neglecting their proper legislative functions to... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education - 1890 - 372 pages
...encouraging and supporting education, has thrown the chief responsibility upon the several States. Besides the Military Academy at West Point and the Naval Academy at Annapolis, the Federal Government has managed noschools, although by libraries and museums it has added to the... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education - 1889 - 1242 pages
...nifieance of such institutions as the National Museum, the Congressional Library, the Bnreaa of Education, the Military Academy at West Point, and the Naval Academy at Annapolis is clearly shown by statistics and brief historical sketches. The second part of the monograph is composed... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1872 - 988 pages
...Capt. US Navy. CHARLES D. ROBINSON, Wisconsin. JOHN "W. HARRIS, Missouri. The aggregate expense of the Military Academy at West Point, and the Naval Academy at Annapolis, to the country, is not represented by the specific sums which appear in the annual appropriation for... | |
 | 1873 - 284 pages
...which secure free tuition for five years, thereby copying the worst feature in the organization of the military academy at West Point and the naval academy at Annapolis, and giving members of Congress another excuse for neglecting their proper legislative functions to... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - 1873 - 284 pages
...which secure free tuition for five years, thereby copying the worst feature in the organization of the military academy at West Point and the naval academy at Annapolis, and giving members of Congress another excuse for neglecting their proper legislative functions to... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - 1873 - 290 pages
...which secure free tuition for five years, thereby copying the worst feature in the organization of the military academy at West Point and the naval academy at Annapolis, and giving members of Congress another excuse for neglecting their proper legislative functions to... | |
 | United States. Congress - 750 pages
...conditions. AIB FORCE ACADEMY Public Law 325 established a United States Air Force Academy similar to the Military Academy at West Point and the Naval Academy at Annapolis. The first class of 300 cadets will be enrolled in July 1955. Each Member of Congress from New York... | |
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