 | Charles Franklin Thwing - Universities and colleges - 1878 - 232 pages
...latter case, however, without an amendment to the Constitution. He argues that "a public institution can alone supply those sciences which, though rarely...called for, are yet necessary to complete the circle, a\\ the parts of which contribute to the improvement of • the country, and some of them to its preservation."... | |
 | Henry Adams - Bookplates - 1879 - 720 pages
...other, the higher education should be placed among the objects of public care; "a public institution can alone supply those sciences which, though rarely...the country and some of them to its preservation." A national university and a national system of internal improvement were an essential part, and indeed... | |
 | Education - 1899 - 708 pages
...for the establishment of a National University at Washington, Jefferson says : " A public institution can alone supply those sciences which, though rarely...the country and some of them to its preservation." Before taking leave of Jefferson, we must look more closely at his ideas concerning the general question... | |
 | Education - 1885 - 546 pages
...UNIVERSITY. manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal, but a public institution can alone supply those sciences which, though rarely...the country, and some of them to its preservation. * * * The present consideration of a national establishment for education particularly is rendered... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1887 - 560 pages
...equal; but a public institution can alone supply those sciences which, though rarely called for, are necessary to complete the circle, all the parts of...the country and some of them to its preservation. The subject is now proposed for the consideration of Congress, because, if approved by the time the... | |
 | James Parton - Presidents - 1888 - 814 pages
...enterprise, which manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal ; but a public institution can alone supply those sciences which, though rarely...the improvement of the country, and some of them to it's preservation." Again, in his last message, when puzzled with surplus revenue, he asked : " Shall... | |
 | John Cleaves Henderson - Biography & Autobiography - 1890 - 414 pages
...urging the founding of a great national university at Washington, he said : " A public institution can alone supply those sciences which, though rarely...the country, and some of them to its preservation." The well-informed student of the natural and physical sciences knows that the world has been created... | |
 | American Historical Association - Electronic journals - 1890 - 448 pages
...other, the higher education should be placed among the objects of public care; 'a public institution can alone supply those sciences which, though rarely...the country and some of them to its preservation.' A national university and a national system of internal improvement were an essential part, and indeed... | |
 | Henry Adams - United States - 1890 - 486 pages
...enterprise, which manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal ; but a public institution can alone supply those sciences which, though rarely...the country, and some of them to its preservation." With an air of apology, as though his old opinions were no longer of practical interest, the President... | |
 | Henry Adams - United States - 1890 - 496 pages
...enterprise, which manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal ; but a public institution can alone supply those sciences which, though rarely...the country, and some of them to its preservation." >— With an air of apology, as though his old opinions were no longer of practical interest, the President... | |
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Education is here placed among the articles of public care, not that it would be proposed to take its ordinary branches out of the hands of private enterprise, which manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal; but a public institution... 
