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 ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1914 |
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... agriculture and the mechanic arts founded upon the proceeds of the Federal land grant of the act of eighteen hundred and sixty- two , with the State universities , and with other institutions of higher learning . SEC . 3. That no ...
... agriculture and the mechanic arts founded upon the proceeds of the Federal land grant of the act of eighteen hundred and sixty- two , with the State universities , and with other institutions of higher learning . SEC . 3. That no ...
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... agriculture and the mechanic arts , for military and naval schools , for the Department of Agricul- ture and the different surveys , and for great libraries . It is the purpose of this bill to make such organization more complete and ...
... agriculture and the mechanic arts , for military and naval schools , for the Department of Agricul- ture and the different surveys , and for great libraries . It is the purpose of this bill to make such organization more complete and ...
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... agriculture in the United States presents many peculiar problems which we alone can solve . Some of the most obvious laws of nature are already the property of mankind , but the greater part of them , on which depend our progress in the ...
... agriculture in the United States presents many peculiar problems which we alone can solve . Some of the most obvious laws of nature are already the property of mankind , but the greater part of them , on which depend our progress in the ...
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... Agriculture are con- stantly engaged in investigations of the highest order , conducted by men of university training , and possible to no other men . The United States Fish Commission is the source of a vast part of our knowledge of ...
... Agriculture are con- stantly engaged in investigations of the highest order , conducted by men of university training , and possible to no other men . The United States Fish Commission is the source of a vast part of our knowledge of ...
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... agriculture and the mechanic arts within the States , we should be a whole generation behind what we are in the development of our educa- tional system . Incidentally I may say that the House of Representatives of the Illinois Legis ...
... agriculture and the mechanic arts within the States , we should be a whole generation behind what we are in the development of our educa- tional system . Incidentally I may say that the House of Representatives of the Illinois Legis ...
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administrative advisory council American Antioch College appointed Army Medical Museum Association bill board of trustees census CHAIRMAN chief civil collections colleges COMMERCE AND LABOR Commission committee a letter cooperation course D. C. FEBRUARY DEAR degree DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE desire District of Columbia DOUGHTON establishment experiment stations experts favor February 9 Federal Government foreign furnish House of Representatives important industrial instruction interest Interstate Commerce Commission investigators John laboratory Leland Stanford Library of Congress M. J. Rosenau material Medical ment National Educational Association National Museum national university Naval Navy Observatory Officer reporting opportunities organization PLATT present President proposition purpose received record reference relating S. D. FESS schools scientific Secretary Senate SIMEON D Smithsonian Institution statistical student assistants study and research Survey tion TOWNER United university proposition various versity volumes Wardell Stiles
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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.