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Page 70 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related 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...
Page 24 - But here the main skill and groundwork will be to temper them such lectures and explanations upon every opportunity as may lead and draw them in willing obedience, inflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God and famous to all ages.
Page 117 - This being the case, it is very evident that the common laws of war — those maxims of humanity, moderation and honor — ought to be observed by both parties in every civil war.
Page 17 - If we work upon marble, it will perish ; if we work upon brass, time will efface it If we rear temples, they will crumble to the dust.
Page 147 - In all pedagogy the great thing is to strike the iron while hot, and to seize the wave of the pupil's interest in each successive subject before its ebb has come...
Page 147 - ... then for initiating them into the harmonies of mechanics and the wonders of physical and chemical law. Later, introspective psychology and the metaphysical and religious mysteries take their turn ; and, last of all, the drama of human affairs and worldly wisdom in the widest sense of the term. In each of us a saturation-point is soon reached in all these things ; the impetus of our purely intellectual zeal...
Page 202 - Albany 1925 CHARLES B. ALEXANDER MA, LL.B., LL.D., Litt.D. --.---------- Tuxedo 1928 WALTER GUEST KELLOGG BA, LL.D. - - - Ogdensburg 1932 JAMES BYRNE BA, LL.B., LL.D. ----- New York 1929 HERBERT L. BRIDGMAN MA, LL.D.
Page 134 - JAMES SULLIVAN MA, Ph.D. Assistant Commissioner for Elementary Education GEORGE M. WILEY MA, Pd.D., LL.D. Director of State Library JAMES I. WYER MLS, Pd.D. Director of Science and State Museum JOHN M. CLARKE Ph.D., D.Sc., LL.D.
Page 115 - Sour, and meal, are not of the class of contraband, and consequently remain articles of free commerce. A culture, which, like that of the soil, gives employment to such a proportion of mankind, could never be suspended by the whole earth, or interrupted for them, whenever any two nations should think proper to go to war.
Page 147 - Outside of their own business. the ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives. They cannot get anything new. Disinterested curiosity is past. the mental grooves and channels set. the power of assimilation gone.