Memorial in Regard to a National UniversityU.S. Government Printing Office, 1892 - 123 sider |
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Side 15
... arts , and hence , for their own immediate good , as well as for the advantage of their children and for the general welfare , willingly bear a share of the light burden necessary to the upbuilding and maintenance of the higher ...
... arts , and hence , for their own immediate good , as well as for the advantage of their children and for the general welfare , willingly bear a share of the light burden necessary to the upbuilding and maintenance of the higher ...
Side 16
... arts , letters , science , and philosophy that would flock to the national standard . One can hardly conceive of a more powerful and effective agency than such an institution would be , whether for the uplifting of the schools of the ...
... arts , letters , science , and philosophy that would flock to the national standard . One can hardly conceive of a more powerful and effective agency than such an institution would be , whether for the uplifting of the schools of the ...
Side 17
... art , and philosophy which themselves bor- der on infinity . As the common schools of this country , broadly viewed , represent what is elementary in the processes of development and acquisition , so the college properly stands for what ...
... art , and philosophy which themselves bor- der on infinity . As the common schools of this country , broadly viewed , represent what is elementary in the processes of development and acquisition , so the college properly stands for what ...
Side 18
... art and science of investigation itself . In an important sense this last - named function of the university is to be ... arts of the most skillful and corrupt devotees of false gods - men able to unmask error and bold to stand for the ...
... art and science of investigation itself . In an important sense this last - named function of the university is to be ... arts of the most skillful and corrupt devotees of false gods - men able to unmask error and bold to stand for the ...
Side 22
... art , letters , and philosophy . ( 7 ) It is no less desirable on account of its metropolitan character . Here are gathered annually and almost constantly leading representa- tives of all geographical divisions ; not only the statesmen ...
... art , letters , and philosophy . ( 7 ) It is no less desirable on account of its metropolitan character . Here are gathered annually and almost constantly leading representa- tives of all geographical divisions ; not only the statesmen ...
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advancement already American university annual appropriate arts Benjamin Peirce bill Bureau central character citizens civil colleges Columbia committee common Cong Congress consideration Constitution contribute culture demand departments District 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 Superintendent thought tion true university United university proposition vast versity Virginia whole worthy youth
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Side 87 - O God ! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea : and, other times, to see The beachy girdle of the ocean Too wide for Neptune's hips...
Side 39 - ... a primary object of such a national institution should be the education of our youth in the science of government. 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?
Side 38 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
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 105 - The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection ? The Chair hears none, and it is so ordered.
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 to know and to value their own rights...
Side 87 - God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea! and, other times, to see The beachy girdle of the ocean Too wide for Neptune's hips; how chances mock, And changes fill the cup of alteration With divers liquors!
Side 42 - Looking anxiously forward to the accomplishment of so desirable an object as this is (in my estimation) my mind has not been able to contemplate any plan more likely to effect the measure, than the establishment of a university in a central part of the United States...
Side 41 - ... the only means of preserving our constitution from its natural enemies, the spirit of sophistry, the spirit of party, the spirit of intrigue, the profligacy of corruption, and the pestilence of foreign influence, which is the angel of destruction to elective governments...
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...