Circular of Information of the Bureau of Education, for ..., Issue 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1890 |
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... give them brief mention . The difficulties attendant on the presentation of a subject extending over such a wide range of topics may be readily discerned . The chief sources employed by the writer are as follows : ( 1 ) Cata- logues ...
... give them brief mention . The difficulties attendant on the presentation of a subject extending over such a wide range of topics may be readily discerned . The chief sources employed by the writer are as follows : ( 1 ) Cata- logues ...
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... give in like manner to the maintenance of the latter . " 2 GENERAL POLICY OF THE STATES . After the Declaration of Independence the provisions relating to ed- ucation assumed a more decidedly political tone . Sentiments began to be ...
... give in like manner to the maintenance of the latter . " 2 GENERAL POLICY OF THE STATES . After the Declaration of Independence the provisions relating to ed- ucation assumed a more decidedly political tone . Sentiments began to be ...
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... give an institution one hundred thousand dollars , and then to tax the institution on this sum and two hundred thousand dollars which the State did not give , is not the same as giving money and taking it back again . Nor is it ...
... give an institution one hundred thousand dollars , and then to tax the institution on this sum and two hundred thousand dollars which the State did not give , is not the same as giving money and taking it back again . Nor is it ...
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... gives force to public opinion , it is essential that public opinion be enlight- ened . " 4 These sentiments declared to the law - making body of the people were the expression of long - cherished desires and of deep - seated convictions ...
... gives force to public opinion , it is essential that public opinion be enlight- ened . " 4 These sentiments declared to the law - making body of the people were the expression of long - cherished desires and of deep - seated convictions ...
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... give that advantage to foreign over domestic manufactures ? On a few articles of more general and necessary use the suppression in due season will doubtless be right , but the great mass of the articles on which impost is paid is ...
... give that advantage to foreign over domestic manufactures ? On a few articles of more general and necessary use the suppression in due season will doubtless be right , but the great mass of the articles on which impost is paid is ...
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Page 48 - 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, in such manner as the legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the...
Page 66 - I bequeath the whole of my property to the United States of America, to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.
Page 79 - Washington, a department of education, for the purpose of collecting such statistics and facts as shall show the condition and progress of education in the several States and Territories, and of diffusing such information respecting the organization and management of schools and school systems, and methods of teaching, as shall aid the people of the United States in the establishment and maintenance of efficient school systems and otherwise promote the cause of education throughout the country.
Page 33 - Constitution may be effectually brought into action by laws promoting the improvement of agriculture, commerce, and manufactures, the cultivation and encouragement of the mechanic and of the elegant arts, the advancement of literature, and the progress of the sciences, ornamental and profound, to refrain from exercising them for the benefit of the people themselves would be to hide in the earth the talent committed to our charge — would be treachery to the most sacred of trusts.
Page 51 - That it shall be the object and duty of said experiment stations to conduct original researches or verify experiments on the physiology of plants and animals; the diseases to which they are severally subject, with the remedies for the same...
Page 52 - ... of crops ; the capacity of new plants or trees for acclimation ; the analysis of soils and water ; the chemical composition of manures, natural or artificial, with experiments designed to test their comparative effects on crops of different kinds ; the adaptation and value of grasses and forage plants ; the composition and digestibility of the different kinds of food for domestic animals ; the scientific and economic questions involved in the production of butter and cheese ; and such other researches...
Page 152 - ... with such salaries to the masters, paid by the public, as may enable them to instruct at low prices; and all useful learning shall be duly encouraged, and promoted, in one or more...
Page 99 - Congress, according to the census of 1860, for 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, ... in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions of life.
Page 31 - States, to which the youth of fortune and talents from all parts thereof might be sent for the completion of their Education in all the branches of polite literature; in arts and Sciences, in acquiring knowledge in the principles of Politics and good Government; and (as a matter of infinite Importance in my judgment) by associating with each other, and forming friendships in Juvenile years, be enabled to free themselves in a proper degree from those local prejudices and habitual jealousies which...
Page 297 - That seventy-two sections of land shall be set apart and reserved for the use and support of a State University...