Memorial in Regard to a National UniversityU.S. Government Printing Office, 1892 - 123 sider |
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... effect this great and necessary work let one of the first acts of the new Congress be to estab- lish within the district to be allotted for them , a Federal university , into which the youth of the United States shall be received after ...
... effect this great and necessary work let one of the first acts of the new Congress be to estab- lish within the district to be allotted for them , a Federal university , into which the youth of the United States shall be received after ...
Side 30
... effects may not then a nation expect from a concourse of her best sons at the temple of wisdom ! Society in the sweet enjoyment of wisdom , literature , and the many social pleasures of an academic life will create a mutual endearment ...
... effects may not then a nation expect from a concourse of her best sons at the temple of wisdom ! Society in the sweet enjoyment of wisdom , literature , and the many social pleasures of an academic life will create a mutual endearment ...
Side 33
... effect , they will be so good as to excuse my using them as the medium for disclosing these my intentions ; because it appears neces- sary that the funds for the establishment and support of the institution should be known to the ...
... effect , they will be so good as to excuse my using them as the medium for disclosing these my intentions ; because it appears neces- sary that the funds for the establishment and support of the institution should be known to the ...
Side 34
... effect , provided it should be adopted on a scale so liberal as to extend to and embrace a complete system of education . I had little hesitation in giving the Federal City a preference over all other places for the institution , for ...
... effect , provided it should be adopted on a scale so liberal as to extend to and embrace a complete system of education . I had little hesitation in giving the Federal City a preference over all other places for the institution , for ...
Side 37
... effect , I inclose you an extract of a letter from me to the governor of Vir- ginia on this subject , and a copy of the resolutions of the legislature of that State in consequence thereof . I have not the smallest doubt that this ...
... effect , I inclose you an extract of a letter from me to the governor of Vir- ginia on this subject , and a copy of the resolutions of the legislature of that State in consequence thereof . I have not the smallest doubt that this ...
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Side 31 - To the security of a free constitution it contributes in various ways: by convincing those who are intrusted with the public administration that every valuable end of government is best answered by the enlightened confidence of the people, and by teaching the people themselves...
Side 42 - ... knowledge in the principles of Politics and good Government and (as a matter of infinite importance in my judgment) by associating with each other and forming friendships in Juvenile years,. be enabled to free themselves in a proper degree from those local prejudices and habitual jealousies which have just been mentioned and which when carried to excess are never failing sources of disquietude to the Public mind and pregnant of mischievous consequences to this country...
Side 48 - 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 can alone supply those sciences which, though rarely called for, are yet necessary to complete the circle, all the parts of which contribute to the improvement of the country, and some of them to its preservation.
Side 42 - ITEM — I give and bequeath in perpetuity the fifty shares which I hold in the Potomac Company (under the aforesaid Acts of the Legislature of Virginia) towards the endowment of a University to be established within the limits of the District of Columbia, under the auspices of the General Government, if that Government should incline to extend a fostering hand towards it...
Side 31 - ... to discriminate the spirit of liberty from that of licentiousness, cherishing the first, avoiding the last, and uniting a speedy but temperate vigilance against encroachments with an inviolable respect to the laws.
Side 31 - Nor am I less persuaded, that you will agree with me in opinion, that there is nothing which can better deserve your patronage than the promotion of science and literature.
Side 41 - I proceed after this recital, for the more correct understanding of the case, to declare; that, as it has always been a source of serious regret with me, to see the youth of these United States sent to foreign countries for the purpose of education, often before their minds were formed, or they had imbibed any adequate ideas of the happiness of their own ; contracting too frequently, not only habits of dissipation and extravagance, but principles unfriendly to republican government, and to the true...
Side 31 - Whether this desirable object will be best promoted by affording aids to seminaries of learning already established, by the institution of a national university, or by any other expedients will be well worthy of a place in the deliberations of the Legislature.
Side 35 - River shares to the same object at the same place ; but, considering the source from whence they were derived, I have, in a letter I am writing to the executive of Virginia on this subject, left the application of them to a seminary within the State, to be located by the legislature.
Side 39 - In a republic what species of knowledge can be equally important and what duty more pressing on its legislature than to patronize a plan for communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?