Studies in the South and West: With Comments on CanadaHarper, 1889 - 484 strani |
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Stran 165 - The distinguishing thing, however, about the state university is its vital connection with the farmers and agricultural interests. * * * I know of no other state where a like system of popular instruction on a vital and universal interest of the state, directed by the highest educational authority, is so perfectly organized and carried on with such unity of purpose and •detail of administration; no other in which the farmer is brought systematically into such direct relations to the university.
Stran 17 - I suppose it is also exceptional to see a colored clergyman in his surplice seated in the chancel of the most important white Episcopal church in New Orleans, assisting in the service; but it is significant. There are many good auguries to be drawn from the improved condition of the negroes on the plantations, the more rational and less emotional character of their religious services, and the hold of the temperance movement on all classes in the country places.
Stran 163 - I ought to be careful that I did not lose the eye of my soul ; as people may injure their bodily eye by observing and gazing on the sun during an eclipse, unless they take the precaution of only looking at the image reflected in the water or in some similar medium.
Stran 474 - Every Public and High School shall be opened with the Lord's Prayer and closed with the reading of the Scriptures and the Lord's Prayer, or the prayer authorized by the Department of Education.
Stran 239 - Jacksonville is a very pretty city of some 15,000, with elm-shaded avenues that suggest but do not rival New Haven — one of those intellectual centres that are a continual surprise to our English friends in their bewildered exploration of our monotonous land. In being the Western centre of Platonic philosophy, it is more like Concord than like New Haven. It is the home of a large number of people who have travelled, who give intelligent attention to art, to literary study in small societies and...
Stran 302 - ... most important discovery has been made for the health and prosperity of the town. This was the striking, in the depression of the Gayoso Bayou, at a depth of 450 feet, perfectly pure water, at a temperature of about 62°, in abundance, with a head sufficient to bring it in fountains some feet above the level of the ground. Ten wells had been sunk, and the water flowing was estimated at ten millions of gallons daily, or half enough to supply the city. It was expected that with more wells the supply...
Stran 185 - No other city in the Union can show business warehouses and offices of more architectural nobility. The mind inevitably goes to Florence for comparison with the structures of the Medicean merchant princes. One might name the Pullman Building for offices as an example, and the wholesale warehouse of Marshall Field, the work of that truly original American architect, Richardson, which in massiveness, simplicity of lines, and admirable blending of artistic beauty with adaptability to its purpose, seems...
Stran 13 - ... this end they want industrial as well as ordinary schools for the colored people. It is believed that, with this education and with diversified industry, the social question will settle itself, as it does the world over. Society can not be made or unmade by legislation.