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... schools , 1862-1880 ___ Beginning of a new movement for agriculture in secondary schools , 1881-1900__ . 301 303 308 314 316 317 319 322 322 323 The Storrs Agricultural School in Connecticut_ The Rhode Island Agricultural School 323 324 ...
... schools , 1862-1880 ___ Beginning of a new movement for agriculture in secondary schools , 1881-1900__ . 301 303 308 314 316 317 319 322 322 323 The Storrs Agricultural School in Connecticut_ The Rhode Island Agricultural School 323 324 ...
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... schools .. 336 State agricultural schools .. 339 County agricultural schools . 346 State - aided local high schools teaching agriculture . 347 Agriculture in public high schools without State aid . 350 Agriculture in private secondary ...
... schools .. 336 State agricultural schools .. 339 County agricultural schools . 346 State - aided local high schools teaching agriculture . 347 Agriculture in public high schools without State aid . 350 Agriculture in private secondary ...
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... school for girls and a normal school . EARLY AGRICULTURAL SCHOOLS Ferdinand Kindermann ( 1740-1801 ) , a Bohemian , sometimes called " father of industrial education , " under the patronage of Maria Theresa , founded an elementary school ...
... school for girls and a normal school . EARLY AGRICULTURAL SCHOOLS Ferdinand Kindermann ( 1740-1801 ) , a Bohemian , sometimes called " father of industrial education , " under the patronage of Maria Theresa , founded an elementary school ...
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... school at Grignon and the following year the school at Grand - Jouan were founded by pupils of Dombasle and later became State schools . DEVELOPMENT OF NATURAL SCIENCES RELATED TO AGRICULTURE The movement for agricultural schools and ...
... school at Grignon and the following year the school at Grand - Jouan were founded by pupils of Dombasle and later became State schools . DEVELOPMENT OF NATURAL SCIENCES RELATED TO AGRICULTURE The movement for agricultural schools and ...
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... schools was adopted in this coun- try by the early colonists from Great Britain . This included the ele- mentary or " dame school , " the grammar or secondary school , and the college . The elementary schools were at first privately ...
... schools was adopted in this coun- try by the early colonists from Great Britain . This included the ele- mentary or " dame school , " the grammar or secondary school , and the college . The elementary schools were at first privately ...
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Page 204 - Agriculture, the general designs and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants.
Page 100 - ... 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 several pursuits and professions in life.
Page 100 - 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...
Page 100 - ... shall constitute a perpetual fund, the capital of which shall remain forever undiminished (except so far as may be provided in section fifth of this act) and the interest of which shall be inviolably appropriated by each State which may take and claim the benefit of this act to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college...
Page 100 - If any portion of the fund invested, as provided by the foregoing section, or any portion of the interest thereon, shall, by any action or contingency, be diminished or lost, it shall be replaced by the State to which it belongs, so that the capital of the fund shall remain forever undiminished...
Page 204 - ... effects on crops of different kinds; the adaptation and value of grasses and forage plants; the composition and digestibility of the different kinds of...
Page 100 - No portion of said fund, nor the interest thereon, shall be applied, directly or indirectly, under any pretense whatever, to the purchase, erection, preservation, or repair of any building or buildings.
Page 100 - Fourth. An annual report shall be made regarding the progress of each college, recording any improvements and experiments made, with their cost and results, and such other matters, including State industrial and economical statistics, as may be supposed useful...
Page 99 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be granted to the several States, for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, an amount of public land, to be apportioned to each State a quantity equal to thirty thousand acres for each Senator and Representative in Congress to which the States are respectively entitled by the apportionment under the census of eighteen hundred and sixty: Provided, That no mineral lands shall be...
Page 74 - The proceeds of all lands that have been, or may hereafter be granted by the United States to the State for the support of a University, shall be and remain a perpetual fund, to be called