The College Book

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Charles Francis Richardson, Henry Alden Clark
Houghton, Osgood, 1878 - 394 páginas
 

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Página 170 - 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 of life." The sale of the public lands allotted to New Jersey amounted to
Página 1 - 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 229 - to perform with facility and accuracy the various operations of the four ground rules of Arithmetic, of reduction, of simple and compound proportion, and of vulgar and decimal fractions, and have a knowledge of the elements of English Grammar, of descriptive Geography, particularly of our own country, and of the History of the United States.
Página 124 - denied to the college the power of making any laws or regulations tending " to exclude any person of any religious denomination whatever from equal liberty and advantage of education, or from any of the degrees, liberties, privileges, benefits, and immunities of said college, on account of his particular tenets in matters of religion.
Página 2 - choose such officers and servants for the college, and make such allowance to them, and them also to remove, and after death or removal, to choose such others, and to make from time to time such orders and by-laws, for the better ordering and carrying on the work of the college, as they shall think fit Provided
Página 57 - supplied from thence ; Be it enacted, that for the advance of learning, education of youth, supply of the ministry, and promotion of piety, there be land taken upon purchases for a Colledge and free schoole, and that there be, with as much speede as may be convenient,
Página 156 - did more than any other single act proceeding from the authority of the United States to throw an impregnable barrier around all rights and franchises derived from the grant of government, and to give solidity and inviolability to the literary, charitable, religious, and commercial institutions of our country.
Página 146 - Manning was formally appointed " president of the college, professor of Languages and other branches of learning, with full power to act in these capacities at Warren or elsewhere." He was, therefore, principal of the Latin school, president of the infant college, and pastor of a large and flourishing church, which had been gathered and
Página 224 - In proportion as the observance of pacific maxims might exempt a nation from the necessity of practising the rules of the military art, ought to be its care in preserving and transmitting, by proper establishments, the knowledge of that art
Página 394 - of Providence, of founding and perpetuating an institution which shall accomplish for young women what our colleges are accomplishing for young men. " In pursuance of this design, I have obtained from the legislature an act of incorporation, conferring on the proposed seminary the corporate title of 'Vassar Female College,' and naming you, gentlemen, as the first trustees. Under the

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