Cornell University, a History, Količina 1University Publishing Society, 1905 |
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Cornell University, a History; Volume 1 Frank R Holmes,Lewis A Williams,Waterman Thomas Hewett Predogled ni na voljo - 2023 |
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Stran 171 - kindlier hand ; Ring out the darkness of the land ; Ring in the Christ that is to be." After a few words of reception from the LieutenantGovernor the chimes rang out " Old Hundred " far over the silent lake and among the autumn hills. For the first
Stran 398 - In order to aid in acquiring and diffusing among the people of the United States useful and practical information on subjects connected with agriculture, and to promote scientific investigation and experiment respecting the principles and applications of agricultural science, there shall be established under direction of the college or colleges, or agricultural departments of colleges in each state or territory,
Stran 2 - There is nothing that can better deserve your patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of happiness. In one in which the measures of government receive their impressions so immediately from the sense of the community as in ours, it is proportionably essential.
Stran 84 - to me, he uttered, during one of our conversations, words which showed that he comprehended the true theory of a university: these words are now engraved upon the Cornell University seal : ' I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study.
Stran 202 - Fellow-teachers, I desire to magnify our office. We are training minds. And, as Emerson most truly said, ' the main enterprise of the world for splendor, for extent, is the upbuilding of a man.' Methods of education, like metaphysics, must be reconsidered by every generation. Therefore, besides teaching and investigating, you must shape our educational
Stran 398 - the same; the chemical composition of useful plants at their different stages of growth; the comparative advantages of rotative cropping, as pursued under a varying series of crops ; the capacity of new plants or trees for acclimation; the analysis of soils and water; the chemical composition of manures, natural or artificial, with experiments designed to test their
Stran 2 - essential. . . . Whether this desirable object will be best promoted by affording aids to seminaries of learning already established, by the institution of a national university, or by any other expedients, will be worthy of a place in the deliberations of the legislature.
Stran 170 - Ring out a slowly dying cause, And ancient forms of party strife : FOURTH BELL. Ring in the nobler modes of life, With sweeter manners, purer laws. FIFTH
Stran 7 - of more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787. ... It set forth and declared it to be a high and binding duty of government to support schools and advance the means of education.
Stran 22 - that in no case shall any state to which land scrip may thus be issued be allowed to locate the same within the limits of any other state; but their assignees may thus locate said land scrip upon any of the