Memorial in Regard to a National UniversityU.S. Government Printing Office, 1892 - 123 sider |
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... professors and fellows . Thus far this high function has been but partially performed anywhere . And yet how inconceivably great are the possibilities of an institution not only ever at the front in its mastery of all that is known ...
... professors and fellows . Thus far this high function has been but partially performed anywhere . And yet how inconceivably great are the possibilities of an institution not only ever at the front in its mastery of all that is known ...
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... professors , because of the unequaled proportion of its citizens eminent for culture in science , art , letters , and philosophy . ( 7 ) It is no less desirable on account of its metropolitan character . Here are gathered annually and ...
... professors , because of the unequaled proportion of its citizens eminent for culture in science , art , letters , and philosophy . ( 7 ) It is no less desirable on account of its metropolitan character . Here are gathered annually and ...
Side 33
... professor- ships . He names to me the following professors as likely , if not certain , to embrace the plan . * * * S. Mis . 222--3 1 Sparks , XI , 14 . It could not be expected that any proposition from strangers A NATIONAL UNIVERSITY .
... professor- ships . He names to me the following professors as likely , if not certain , to embrace the plan . * * * S. Mis . 222--3 1 Sparks , XI , 14 . It could not be expected that any proposition from strangers A NATIONAL UNIVERSITY .
Side 34
... professor of agriculture— who , before the students should leave the college , should carry them through a course of lectures on the principle and practice of agriculture ; and that this pro- fessor should come from no country but ...
... professor of agriculture— who , before the students should leave the college , should carry them through a course of lectures on the principle and practice of agriculture ; and that this pro- fessor should come from no country but ...
Side 35
... professors in a body ( from Geneva ) might be questioned for several reasons ; among others , because they might not all be good characters nor all sufficiently ac- quainted with our language . And again , having been at variance with ...
... professors in a body ( from Geneva ) might be questioned for several reasons ; among others , because they might not all be good characters nor all sufficiently ac- quainted with our language . And again , having been at variance with ...
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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?