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The National Museum and the Army Medical Museum far exceed all other similar
collections in America in the amount and value of the ... To do this would be to
bring to America all that American scholars now seek in the University of Berlin .
The National Museum and the Army Medical Museum far exceed all other similar
collections in America in the amount and value of the ... To do this would be to
bring to America all that American scholars now seek in the University of Berlin .
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There has been nothing like it in American history or in any other . The delay has
not been due , as we have seen , to serious convictions that nothing more in the
way of university education is needed , as a little circle of ambitious head of ...
There has been nothing like it in American history or in any other . The delay has
not been due , as we have seen , to serious convictions that nothing more in the
way of university education is needed , as a little circle of ambitious head of ...
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There are more points of cosmopolitan interest in America than in any other
country . We do not want the university ... Such a plan would make an opening for
an American professor in the University of Argentina . We have that affiliation with
...
There are more points of cosmopolitan interest in America than in any other
country . We do not want the university ... Such a plan would make an opening for
an American professor in the University of Argentina . We have that affiliation with
...
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The following valuable reference works are easily accessible : American
Archives ( all in print ) ; American State Papers ; Journals of the Continental
Congress ; all the original journals of the Senate and the House of
Representatives ; the ...
The following valuable reference works are easily accessible : American
Archives ( all in print ) ; American State Papers ; Journals of the Continental
Congress ; all the original journals of the Senate and the House of
Representatives ; the ...
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Canadian railway cases . American and English Encyclopedia of Law , second
edition . Cyclopedia of Law and Procedure . American negligence reports .
Opinions of Attorneys - General . Court of Claims reports , Decisions of the
Comptroller ...
Canadian railway cases . American and English Encyclopedia of Law , second
edition . Cyclopedia of Law and Procedure . American negligence reports .
Opinions of Attorneys - General . Court of Claims reports , Decisions of the
Comptroller ...
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Page 77 - 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 96 - J. Franklin Jameson, director of the department of historical research of the Carnegie Institution of Washington...
Page 72 - Report on the origin and prevalence of typhoid fever in the District of Columbia.
Page 11 - ... by which the arts, sciences, and belles-lettres could be taught in their fullest extent, thereby embracing all the advantages of European tuition, with the means of acquiring the liberal knowledge which is necessary to qualify our citizens for the exigencies of public as well as private life; and (which with me is a consideration of great magnitude) by assembling the youth from the different parts of this rising Republic, contributing from their intercourse and interchange of information to the...
Page 57 - Gardens, and similar institutions hereafter established shall be afforded to scientific investigators and to duly qualified individuals, students, and graduates of institutions of learning in the several States...
Page 14 - But, above all, a wellconstituted seminary in the center of the nation is recommended by the consideration that the additional instruction emanating from it would contribute not less to strengthen the foundations than to adorn the structure of our free and happy system of government.
Page 12 - Amongst the motives to such an institution, the assimilation of the principles, opinions and manners of our countrymen, by the common education of a portion of our youth, from every quarter, well deserves attention. The more homogeneous our citizens can be made in these particulars, the greater will be our prospect of permanent union ; and a primary object of such a national institution should be the education of our youth in the science of government.
Page 13 - ... that once and again, in his addresses to the Congresses with whom he cooperated in the public service, he earnestly recommended the establishment of seminaries of learning, to prepare for all the emergencies of peace and war — a national university, and a military academy.
Page 13 - ... national university and a military academy. With respect to the latter, had he lived to the present day, in turning his eyes to the institution at West Point he would have enjoyed the gratification of his most earnest wishes; but in surveying the city which has been honored with his name he would have seen the spot of earth which he had destined and bequeathed to the use and benefit of his country as the site for a university still bare and barren.
Page 72 - No. 32. — A stomach lesion in guinea pigs caused by diphtheria toxine and its bearing upon experimental gastric ulcer. By MJ Rosenau and John F. Anderson. No. 33. — Studies in experimental alcoholism. By Reid Hunt.
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| Title | National University: Hearings Before the Committee on Education, House of Representatives, Sixty-third Congress, Second Session on H. R. 11749, a Bill to Create a National University at the Seat of the Federal Government ... Volumes 1-3 of National University: Hearings Before the Committee on Education, House of Representatives, Sixty-third Congress, Second Session on H. R. 11749, a Bill to Create a National University at the Seat of the Federal Government, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education |
| Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education |
| Publisher | U.S. Government Printing Office, 1914 |
| Original from | the Library of Congress |
| Digitized | 23 Mar 2007 |
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