The Railroad as an Element in Education: An Address Before the International Congress of Educators, World's Exposition, New Orleans, Količina 6

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author, 1887 - 52 strani
 

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Stran 19 - THE sky is changed ! — and such a change ! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among, Leaps the live thunder ! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud ! And this is in the night : most glorious night ! Thou wert not sent for
Stran 20 - Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Stran 35 - To prohibit sectarian instruction, but to have taught in the University the immortality of the soul, the existence of an all-wise and benevolent Creator, and that obedience to His laws is the highest duty of man.
Stran 35 - Its object: to qualify its students for personal success and direct usefulness in life. And its purpose : to promote the public welfare by exercising an influence in behalf of humanity and civilization, teaching the blessings of liberty regulated by law, and inculcating love and reverence for the great principles of government as derived from the inalienable rights of...
Stran 11 - What will make your city the rival of both New York and Chicago ? Not because she is the outlet of the Mississippi Basin, but because she is the eastern terminus of the railroads of the Pacific Slope, the Southwest, the Northwest. The superintendent of our last — the tenth — census says: "The closeness with which the center of population, through such rapid westward movement as has been recorded, has clung to the parallel of 39° of latitude can not fail to be noticed.
Stran 35 - To fix the salaries of the President, professors, and teachers, and to fix them at such rates as will secure to the University the services of men of the very highest attainments.
Stran 24 - ... dollars, which said sum I desire shall be paid yearly to aid in improving the condition of the poor in the city of Baltimore, the first payment to be made at the expiration of one year from my death, and to continue thereafter in perpetuity; and as I have a very favorable opinion of the usefulness and effectiveness of the present organization or body corporate known as the " Baltimore Association for the Improvement of the Condition of the Poor...
Stran 35 - Its nature, that of a University, with such seminaries of learning as shall make it of the highest grade, including mechanical institutes, museums, galleries of art, laboratories and conservatories, together with all things necessary for the study of agriculture in all its branches, and for mechanical training, and the studies and exercises directed to the cultivation and enlargement of the mind.
Stran 20 - ... offers the strongest human agency in the shape of the universality of our mother-tongue. A clever modern philologist shows that the English language is spoken to-day by 100,000,000 people; that soon, within a hundred years, it will be the language of 1,000,000,000 (one .thousand million) souls; and adds, that then the great languages of the world will be the English, Chinese, and Russian, with the English far in the lead. But he does not tell us to what influence this wonderful spread of our...
Stran 24 - ... annual payments of $100 each, without interest, the first payment to be made at the expiration of one year. He also delivered to the deceased a written agreement containing the following language, viz. : "In the event of my death previous to January 27, 1909 (January twentyseven, nineteen hundred and nine), I hereby will and agree that my heirs or executors shall surrender to said Harriet L.

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