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I offer for the consideration of the committee a letter received by me from the first
American to take the doctor's degree in the University of Athens , Greece , an
author of a Greek textbook , and a man who taught in Greece eight years . He is a
...
I offer for the consideration of the committee a letter received by me from the first
American to take the doctor's degree in the University of Athens , Greece , an
author of a Greek textbook , and a man who taught in Greece eight years . He is a
...
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I take a great deal of interest in the letter I have received from the president of the
University of Chicago . I have feared that the highly endowed institutions might
oppose it , and I have feared they might say it was unnecessary because they ...
I take a great deal of interest in the letter I have received from the president of the
University of Chicago . I have feared that the highly endowed institutions might
oppose it , and I have feared they might say it was unnecessary because they ...
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Specimens are often received from colleges , museums , students , farmers , and
others for comparison with this material , with the request that they be named and
classified . The survey collections are so stored , labeled , and arranged as to ...
Specimens are often received from colleges , museums , students , farmers , and
others for comparison with this material , with the request that they be named and
classified . The survey collections are so stored , labeled , and arranged as to ...
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These men are employed for a period of one year at $ 50 per month and
expenses while on field duty , during which time they receive practical training
and instruction not only in laboratory work and methods of road administration ,
but also in ...
These men are employed for a period of one year at $ 50 per month and
expenses while on field duty , during which time they receive practical training
and instruction not only in laboratory work and methods of road administration ,
but also in ...
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Requests of this character are received every day , and many of them come from
students . The office not infrequently supplies copies of some of its reports or
bulletins for class - room use . It has never undertaken or been asked to
undertake ...
Requests of this character are received every day , and many of them come from
students . The office not infrequently supplies copies of some of its reports or
bulletins for class - room use . It has never undertaken or been asked to
undertake ...
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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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