Proceedings and Addresses at the Inauguration of Jacob Gould Schurman, LL.D. to the Presidency of Cornell University: November 11, 1892Pub. for the University, 1892 - 82 sider |
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Proceedings and Addresses at the Inauguration of Jacob Gould Schurman, LL.D ... Cornell University Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1892 |
Proceedings and Addresses at the Inauguration of Jacob Gould Schurman, LL.D ... Cornell University Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1892 |
Proceedings and Addresses at the Inauguration of Jacob Gould Schurman, LL.D ... Jacob Gould Schurman,Cornell University Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 2016 |
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acres Address in behalf administration agriculture Alma Mater Alumni annual appropriations Armory Hall assembly district blessings Board of Trustees body bounty branches of learning buildings cent Chairman Charles Kendall Adams charter civilization College Land committee commonwealth congress congressional grant Cornell Endowment Fund CORNELL GLEE CLUB Cornell Uni Cornell University cost dollars donated duty equipment Ezra Cornell Faculty future gift give growth Hail heart Henry W higher education highest inauguration income institution instruction intellectual interest Ithaca JACOB GOULD SCHURMAN James Russell Lowell land grant land scrip legislature liberal and practical lives mechanic arts ment Morrill act number of students obligations organ practical education present presidency of Cornell President Schurman pursuits and professions realized received Sage SAMUEL D scholarship sity spirit splendid success teach Thou tion treasury trustees of Cornell Union Univer versity wealth wisdom wise York
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Side 67 - It is a partnership in all science, a partnership in all art, a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Side 19 - And why not? for they aspire to the highest, and this, in their sleep-walking, they dream is highest. Wake them and they shall quit the false good and leap to the true, and leave governments to clerks and desks. This revolution is to be wrought by the gradual domestication of the idea of Culture. The main enterprise of the world for splendor, for extent, is the upbuilding of a man.
Side 3 - ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who art •£*• always more ready to hear than we to pray, and art wont to give more than either we desire or deserve ; Pour down upon us the abundance of thy mercy ; forgiving us those things whereof our conscience is afraid, and giving us those good things which we are not worthy to ask, but through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ, thy Son, our Lord.
Side 50 - No portion of said fund nor the interest thereon, shall be applied directly or indirectly, under any pretense whatever, to the purchase, erection, preservation, or repair of any building or buildings.
Side 67 - No system of public education is worth the name of national unless it creates a great educational ladder, with one end in the gutter and the other in the university.
Side 31 - ... the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college, where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the Legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life.
Side 30 - States, but their assignees may thus locate said land scrip upon any of the unappropriated lands of the United States subject to sale at private...
Side 3 - Lift the chorus, speed it onward, Loud her praises tell, Hail to thee, our Alma Mater, Hail, all hail, Cornell. Far above the busy humming, Of the bustling town, Reared against the arch of heaven, Looks she proudly down.
Side 29 - ... Bill before the next Congress and the next, and finally they had the satisfaction of seeing this measure become a law during the administration of Lincoln and in the midst of the dark days of the war. " The genius of Lincoln rose to the occasion. With one hand he smote off the fetters of the slave ; with the other he joined in a splendid effort to subjugate nature. On the second of July, 1862, while the announcement of emancipation was still on his desk, he signed the Act of Congress donating...
Side 5 - Grant, O Lord, that by thy holy word which shall be read and preached in this place, and by thy Holy Spirit grafting it inwardly in the heart, the hearers thereof may both perceive and know what things they ought to do, and may have power and strength to fulfil the same.