Memorial in Regard to a National UniversityU.S. Government Printing Office, 1892 - 123 sider |
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... favor of a Federal heart and university in our perodical papers since 1775 . As examples , extracts are taken from some of the newspaper articles quoted by Blodget1 as published September , 1787 . If a Federal university should be ...
... favor of a Federal heart and university in our perodical papers since 1775 . As examples , extracts are taken from some of the newspaper articles quoted by Blodget1 as published September , 1787 . If a Federal university should be ...
Side 32
... favor of other political sys- tems before they are capable of appreciating their own . For this reason I have greatly wished to see a plan adopted by which the arts , sciences , and belles - lettres could be taught in their fullest ...
... favor of other political sys- tems before they are capable of appreciating their own . For this reason I have greatly wished to see a plan adopted by which the arts , sciences , and belles - lettres could be taught in their fullest ...
Side 33
... favor- able auspices in a reasonable time with a fair prospect of success . I will grant in perpetuity fifty shares in the navigation of the Potomac River toward the endow- ment of it . What annuity will arise from these shares when the ...
... favor- able auspices in a reasonable time with a fair prospect of success . I will grant in perpetuity fifty shares in the navigation of the Potomac River toward the endow- ment of it . What annuity will arise from these shares when the ...
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... favor of your excellency to lay this letter before that honorable body at their next session , in order that I may appropriate the James River shares to the place which they may prefer . 1 1 XVII . The action of the Virginia legislature ...
... favor of your excellency to lay this letter before that honorable body at their next session , in order that I may appropriate the James River shares to the place which they may prefer . 1 1 XVII . The action of the Virginia legislature ...
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... favor of a project so desirable carry great weight . A central school at the seat of the General Government , darting its rays of intel- lectual light or rolling the flood of useful information throughout the land , could not fail to ...
... favor of a project so desirable carry great weight . A central school at the seat of the General Government , darting its rays of intel- lectual light or rolling the flood of useful information throughout the land , could not fail to ...
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advancement already American university annual appropriate arts Benjamin Peirce bill Bureau central character citizens civil colleges committee common Cong Congress consideration Constitution contribute culture demand departments District of Columbia duty educa efforts endowment existing favor Federal City genius give Government highest honor Hoyt idea important instruction intellectual interest James James Madison James River James Smithson Jefferson John knowledge land legislature Legrand W liberal liberty Louis Agassiz Madison means ment minds national capital National Educational Association national university object organization patriotic political Potomac Potomac Company present President principles Prof professors promote proper proposed proposition purpose reason Republic Samuel Blodget schools science and learning scientific seminary Senator sess Smithsonian Institution society statesmen Superintendent thought tion tional true university United university proposition vast versity Virginia whole worthy youth
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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?