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" ... to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people.30 29 John Adams, Works (CF Adams, edit., Boston, 1851-1856), IV, 302, in footnote, so American Academy... "
Annual Report - Side 1508
av United States. Office of Education - 1896
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Research in the Humanistic and Social Sciences: Report of a Survey Conducted ...

American Council of Learned Societies, Frederic Austin Ogg - 1928 - 530 sider
...oldest scientific body in the United States. It was chartered by the state of Massachusetts in 1 780 "to cultivate every art and science which may tend...happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people" ; and it has numbered among its members most of the leading scholars and men of affairs of Massachusetts,...
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Preliminary Edition of Guide to Depositories of Manuscript Collections in ...

Historical Records Survey (Mass.) - 1939 - 178 sider
...except Sat. pm The academy was founded on May 4, l780, by a group of 62 prominent men. Iks purpose: "To cultivate every art and science which may tend...happiness of a free, independent and, virtuous people." It specializes in scientific research. The academy is housed in a four-story, fireproof, brick/ and...
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Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science: Volume 26 - Role Indicators ...

Allen Kent, Harold Lancour, Jay E. Daily - 1979 - 568 sider
...geographical observations, and improvements in agriculture, arts, manufactures and commerce, and in fine, to cultivate every art and science which may tend...happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people (8). The Memoirs of the academy started in l785. Many specialized societies at the state level mushroomed...
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The Growth of the American Thought

Merle Eugene Curti - 1964 - 970 sider
...geographical observations, and improvements in agriculture, arts, manufacture, and commerce, and, in fine, to cultivate every art and science which may tend...and happiness of a free, independent and virtuous people.17 The members of the Academy listened regularly to papers on mathematics, astronomy, electricity,...
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Intellectual Life in America: A History

Lewis Perry - 1989 - 479 sider
...geographical observations, and improvement in agriculture, arts, manufactures, and commerce; and, in fine, to cultivate every art and science which may tend...happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people." The principal figure in the academy's seal was Minerva, with a field of Indian corn and agricultural...
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Idea Brokers: Think Tanks And The Rise Of The New Policy Elite

James A. Smith - 1993 - 360 sider
...of Arts and Sciences is the second oldest learned society in the United States. Its founders sought "to cultivate every art and science which may tend...happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people." The American Academy has a dual function: first, it honors individual achievements in the arts, sciences,...
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Essex Institute Historical Collections, Volum 15

Essex Institute - 1879 - 356 sider
...under the name of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences." The duty especially assigned them was ; "to cultivate every art and science which may tend...happiness of a free, independent and virtuous people." Among the names of the founders of the Academy, were many citizens of our State. And we 153 may observe...
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The Unitarian Controversy: Essays on American Unitarian History

Conrad Wright - 1994 - 260 sider
...preservation of historical materials to be "of public utility"; the American Academy (1780) was incorporated "to cultivate every Art and Science which may tend...and happiness of a free, independent and virtuous People."9 Comparable statements may be found in the acts of incorporation of the other societies in...
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Religious and Secular Reform in America: Ideas, Beliefs, and Social Change

David K. Adams, Cornelius A. Van Minnen - 1999 - 292 sider
...relief of poverty. According to its charter, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences was established to cultivate 'every art and science which may tend...happiness of a free, independent and virtuous people'. James Bowdoin's founding oration confirmed that the society, formed as it was 'on the plan of the philosophical...
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Duty, Honor, Country: A History of West Point

Stephen E. Ambrose - 1999 - 430 sider
..."to determine the uses to which the various natural productions of the country may be applied [and] to cultivate every art and science which may tend...interest, honor, dignity and happiness of a free, 15 Wadsworth to Williams, August 12, 1803, ibid.; Major EA Denton. "The Formative Years of the United...
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