Memorial in Regard to a National UniversityU.S. Government Printing Office, 1892 - 123 sider |
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... knowledge . 19 To lead in the development of new professions . To lead the world in original research and investigation . To constitute an impregnable bulwark of truth and freedom . II . REASONS WHY THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT SHOULD FOUND ...
... knowledge . 19 To lead in the development of new professions . To lead the world in original research and investigation . To constitute an impregnable bulwark of truth and freedom . II . REASONS WHY THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT SHOULD FOUND ...
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... knowledge which they represent . The studies therein mastered are supposed to have simply furnished a key with which , if intellectually capable and of resolute purpose , they who have been certificated by them may enter those vastly ...
... knowledge which they represent . The studies therein mastered are supposed to have simply furnished a key with which , if intellectually capable and of resolute purpose , they who have been certificated by them may enter those vastly ...
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... knowledge by means of the researches and investigations of its 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 ...
... knowledge by means of the researches and investigations of its 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 ...
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... knowledge as a means of general human progress . To this end such a university would contribute to a degree beyond the power of calculation . Dis- coveries and inventions of every sort would greatly multiply under the force of its ...
... knowledge as a means of general human progress . To this end such a university would contribute to a degree beyond the power of calculation . Dis- coveries and inventions of every sort would greatly multiply under the force of its ...
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... knowledge which increase the convenience of life , lessen human misery , improve our country , promote population , exalt the human understanding , and establish do- mestic , social , and political happiness . Let it not be said , This ...
... knowledge which increase the convenience of life , lessen human misery , improve our country , promote population , exalt the human understanding , and establish do- mestic , social , and political happiness . Let it not be said , This ...
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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...