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... Music Hall , Library School and Institute of Technology . All of these departments , excepting the Technical Schools , are housed in a building which stands among the world's great pieces of architecture , and the Technical Schools are ...
... Music Hall , Library School and Institute of Technology . All of these departments , excepting the Technical Schools , are housed in a building which stands among the world's great pieces of architecture , and the Technical Schools are ...
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... musical taste of Pittsburgh , I enter- tain not the slightest doubt , and Goethe's saying should be recalled , that " Straight roads lead from music to everything good . " In January , 1896 , Mr. Carnegie provided an endowment fund of ...
... musical taste of Pittsburgh , I enter- tain not the slightest doubt , and Goethe's saying should be recalled , that " Straight roads lead from music to everything good . " In January , 1896 , Mr. Carnegie provided an endowment fund of ...
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... Music Hall , which was originally under the direction of the Library Trustees but since 1904 had been operated by funds given by Mr. Carnegie , was by executive order on January 1 , 1916 , transferred from the Carnegie Library control ...
... Music Hall , which was originally under the direction of the Library Trustees but since 1904 had been operated by funds given by Mr. Carnegie , was by executive order on January 1 , 1916 , transferred from the Carnegie Library control ...
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... music , art and science . There are three principal entrances to the building , one at each end of the Forbes Street façade , leading to the Art Galleries and Museum and to the Music Hall , respectively , and one on the western side ...
... music , art and science . There are three principal entrances to the building , one at each end of the Forbes Street façade , leading to the Art Galleries and Museum and to the Music Hall , respectively , and one on the western side ...
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... Music Hall . The vestibule , of dark Sienna marble , is stately and impressive ; the foyer , with its lofty columns of green Tinos marble , lavish gold incrustations , and a variously colored inlaid floor , departs from the restraint ...
... Music Hall . The vestibule , of dark Sienna marble , is stately and impressive ; the foyer , with its lofty columns of green Tinos marble , lavish gold incrustations , and a variously colored inlaid floor , departs from the restraint ...
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administration adopted American ANDREW CARNEGIE annual meeting annuity applied appointed approved April April 19 ARTICLE Arts bildings Board of Trustees bonds branches by-laws Canada Carnegie Corporation Carnegie Foundation Carnegie Hero Fund Carnegie Institute Carnegie Library Carnegie's Chairman CHARLES Church Peace Union city of Pittsburgh collection colleges Commission Conference Council Court December deed Department Director Division Dunfermline duties edition elected Elihu Root employes erection established ex officio Executive Committee Finance Committee five Gallery gift grant Hague HENRY hereby Hero Fund income Institute of Technology Institution of Washington International Law International Peace investments James Brown Scott JOHN library buildings March 12 ment Museum named NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER organization Pennsylvania pension system persons Pittsburgh Price purchase purposes retiring allowances ROBERT Secretary SECTION securities Simplified Spelling successors teachers Technical Schools tion Treasurer University vacancies WILLIAM WILLIAM H York
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Page 99 - That the objects of the corporation shall be to encourage, in the broadest and most liberal manner, investigation, research, and discovery, and the application of knowledge to the improvement of mankind...
Page 209 - Peace, for the purpose of receiving and maintaining a fund or funds and applying the principal and income thereof to promote the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding among the people of the United States...
Page 101 - An Act to establish a Code of Law for the District of Columbia...
Page 151 - ... in general, to do and perform all things necessary to encourage, uphold, and dignify the profession of the teacher and the cause of higher education.
Page 192 - FOR THE ADAPTATION TO MARITIME WARFARE OF THE PRINCIPLES OF THE GENEVA CONVENTION, iv — 19 p.
Page 127 - ... that of the teacher in our higher educational institutions. New York City generously, and very wisely, provides retiring pensions for teachers in her public schools and also for her policemen. Very few indeed of our colleges are able to do so. The consequences are grievous. Able men hesitate to adopt teaching as a career, and many old professors whose places should be occupied by younger men, can not be retired.
Page 291 - In bestowing charity, the main consideration should be to help those who will help themselves; to provide part of the means by which those who desire to improve may do so; to give those who desire to rise the aids by which they may rise; to assist, but rarely or never to do all. Neither the individual nor the race is improved by almsgiving.
Page 183 - ... by notice served personally upon or mailed to the usual address of each trustee, twenty days prior to the meeting, as the names and addresses of such trustees appear upon the books of the association.* 1See Amendment I, page 14.
Page 183 - The principal office of the association shall be in the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia. The...