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Facilities offered for advanced study and research prior to the year 1908 . [ A brief
narrative and descriptive sta cement is desired , such as may be incorporated
verbatim in the proposed bulletin . If more convenient , reference may be made to
...
Facilities offered for advanced study and research prior to the year 1908 . [ A brief
narrative and descriptive sta cement is desired , such as may be incorporated
verbatim in the proposed bulletin . If more convenient , reference may be made to
...
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No facilities are offered for advanced study or research . The work of the
Reclamation Service is largely survey , examination , and construction of large
works for the irrigation of arid lands , and up to the present time there has not
been any ...
No facilities are offered for advanced study or research . The work of the
Reclamation Service is largely survey , examination , and construction of large
works for the irrigation of arid lands , and up to the present time there has not
been any ...
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Opportunities are offered only to investigators thoroughly prepared for their work .
No statement can be made as to the number of investigators who can be given
facilities for work in the bureau , as the opportunities very from time to time , but ...
Opportunities are offered only to investigators thoroughly prepared for their work .
No statement can be made as to the number of investigators who can be given
facilities for work in the bureau , as the opportunities very from time to time , but ...
Page 102
As stated above , no opportunities are offered except to regular employees of the
bureau . To young men who have completed a thorough course in chemistry and
who desire experience in a large laboratory , excellent opportunities are offered ...
As stated above , no opportunities are offered except to regular employees of the
bureau . To young men who have completed a thorough course in chemistry and
who desire experience in a large laboratory , excellent opportunities are offered ...
Page 118
The facilities which can be offered to students during the year 1908–9 will
probably be no greater than those of preceding years . In fact , they may be even
less , for not only has the museum become more crowded , but the problem of the
...
The facilities which can be offered to students during the year 1908–9 will
probably be no greater than those of preceding years . In fact , they may be even
less , for not only has the museum become more crowded , but the problem of the
...
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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.
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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