Official Register, Volume 5,Edição 6

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Página 11 - After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.
Página 11 - Christian truth, and that no assent to the peculiarities of any denomination of Christians shall be required either of the instructors or students.
Página 23 - Over seventyeight thousand visits were made by patients at this institution during the past year. These cases present every variety of disease of the ear and eye, and supply a large number of operations. A new and enlarged hospital, considered to be one of the best of its kind in the world, has been erected on land adjoining the Massachusetts General Hospital. It is believed that this building will provide adequately for the proper treatment of the constantly increasing number of patients.
Página 17 - Everything else will admit of a substitute, or may be dispensed with; but without the library the School would lose its most important characteristics, and indeed its identity.
Página 7 - Infirmary; and on the order of a physician, every student will be given, in case of sickness, in return for this fee, a bed in a ward, board, and ordinary nursing, for a period not exceeding two weeks in any one academic year.
Página 18 - But, as a collection of rare, and curious, and important learning, it is probably not exceeded, and perhaps not equalled by any other collection of the same size in America, if it be in Europe.
Página 8 - Means successful or not depends chiefly on his own energy and ability. The Secretary can assure the questioner that it is possible to work one's way through Harvard, for there are always many self-supporting students in College, and he can also assure him that the experience of many students shows that if a man has health, energy, cheerfulness, a good preparation for College work, and enough money in hand or assured for the necessary expenses of the first year, the chances are that he will never...
Página 15 - ... and not only to this School, we are now happy to celebrate. Mr. Langdell has insisted, as we all know, on the importance of studying law, at first hand, in the actual authorities. I am not sure whether this is the readiest way to pass examinations; that is as the questions and the examiners may be. I do feel sure it is the best way, if not the only one, to learn law. By pointing out that way Mr. Langdell has done excellently well. But the study he has inculcated by precept and example is not...
Página 41 - It contains a number of full-size models of details from important architectural monuments; a remarkably fine series of casts from Greek architectural detail, made for the department in Athens and including several casts from objects never hitherto reproduced...

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