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 ... |
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Italy is building palatial structures for her universities at the great centers , fully
resolved not to be left in the rear of this grand new movement . Everywhere
concentration of means and forces , to the end of leadership and eventual
supremacy in ...
Italy is building palatial structures for her universities at the great centers , fully
resolved not to be left in the rear of this grand new movement . Everywhere
concentration of means and forces , to the end of leadership and eventual
supremacy in ...
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A comparatively small appropriation would supply the buildings required for
some years . The lecture rooms of each department should be in the building
already provided for the collections that would be used by that department .
A comparatively small appropriation would supply the buildings required for
some years . The lecture rooms of each department should be in the building
already provided for the collections that would be used by that department .
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The Army Medical Museum and Library of the Surgeon - General's Office was
established in its present status in 1887 , at which time this building , erected for
its reception , was first occupied . Prior to that time the library and museum were ...
The Army Medical Museum and Library of the Surgeon - General's Office was
established in its present status in 1887 , at which time this building , erected for
its reception , was first occupied . Prior to that time the library and museum were ...
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and to furnish them all the assistance that could be given in the inadequate
building which it occupies . ... photographs of school and college buildings and
grounds and of groups of pupils of all grades ; portraits and busts of educators
and ...
and to furnish them all the assistance that could be given in the inadequate
building which it occupies . ... photographs of school and college buildings and
grounds and of groups of pupils of all grades ; portraits and busts of educators
and ...
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In fact , they may be even less , for not only has the museum become more
crowded , but the problem of the removal of the scientific collections to the new
building will tax the energies of the entire staff . With this removal , however ,
which will ...
In fact , they may be even less , for not only has the museum become more
crowded , but the problem of the removal of the scientific collections to the new
building will tax the energies of the entire staff . With this removal , however ,
which will ...
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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...
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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.
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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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