The Attempt to Establish a Federal University, 1786-1832University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1953 - 404 pages |
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... appropriation of funds were among the means employed to assist education . New York state , under Governor Clinton's leadership , established the Univer- sity of the State of New York , appropriated land for an educational fund and ...
... appropriation of funds were among the means employed to assist education . New York state , under Governor Clinton's leadership , established the Univer- sity of the State of New York , appropriated land for an educational fund and ...
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... appropriated or to be appropriated for a national univers- ity is particularly difficult to accept at face value when one realizes the content of a letter Washington had written 37 to the commissioners approximately one month previously ...
... appropriated or to be appropriated for a national univers- ity is particularly difficult to accept at face value when one realizes the content of a letter Washington had written 37 to the commissioners approximately one month previously ...
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David Johnston Maitland. of having misused Federal City land by appropriating it for a national university . ( This theory ... appropriated some of it for a university , they had diverted it to private usage . Fearing this me- morial as a ...
David Johnston Maitland. of having misused Federal City land by appropriating it for a national university . ( This theory ... appropriated some of it for a university , they had diverted it to private usage . Fearing this me- morial as a ...
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