The Origin of the National Scientific and Educational Institutions of the United States, Volume 4, Issue 2 |
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... Legislature , of Massachusetts in 1780 , and published its first Memoirs in 1785. This , like the Philadelphia society , owed its origin to the efforts of a great statesman . We find the whole history in the memoirs of John Adams , a ...
... Legislature , of Massachusetts in 1780 , and published its first Memoirs in 1785. This , like the Philadelphia society , owed its origin to the efforts of a great statesman . We find the whole history in the memoirs of John Adams , a ...
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... legislature of Massachusetts should institute an Academy of Arts and Sciences . 1 Some local antiquary may make an interesting contribution to the literature of American museum - work by looking up the history of this collection . ' The ...
... legislature of Massachusetts should institute an Academy of Arts and Sciences . 1 Some local antiquary may make an interesting contribution to the literature of American museum - work by looking up the history of this collection . ' The ...
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... legislature under the new constitution adopted and established it by law . Afterwards when attending the convention for forming the constitution , I mentioned the subject to several of the members , and when I was appointed by the sub ...
... legislature under the new constitution adopted and established it by law . Afterwards when attending the convention for forming the constitution , I mentioned the subject to several of the members , and when I was appointed by the sub ...
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... Legislature of Virginia in regard to the endowment of Washington College , his donation at com- pound interest , would in twelve years ( 1815 ) have grown to $ 50,000 and in twenty - four ( 1827 ) years $ 100,000 , an endow- ment ...
... Legislature of Virginia in regard to the endowment of Washington College , his donation at com- pound interest , would in twelve years ( 1815 ) have grown to $ 50,000 and in twenty - four ( 1827 ) years $ 100,000 , an endow- ment ...
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... legislature ought to make the people happy | Aristotle on government | = | . . . . " Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas " | = | City of Washington : | Printed for the author . | | 1806 , 128 i - viii , 1–202 i - xiv . = The ...
... legislature ought to make the people happy | Aristotle on government | = | . . . . " Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas " | = | City of Washington : | Printed for the author . | | 1806 , 128 i - viii , 1–202 i - xiv . = The ...
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Academy of Arts Academy of Sciences AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION Alexander Dallas Bache American Philosophical Society annual appointed appropriation Arts and Sciences astronomical Barlow Blodget botanical CAROLINA Coast Survey COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE Columbian College Columbian Institute Congress connection Department direction erected establishment Europe expedition expense explore federal France Franklin fund Hassler Historical Society important instruction instruments interest Jefferson Joel Barlow John Quincy Adams Josiah Meigs knowledge Land Grant Legislature Madison Massachusetts MECHANIC ARTS MECHANICAL COLLEGE ment meteorological Michaux MISSOURI Museum National Institution national university Navy North objects observations observatory organized Patent Office Pennsylvania Philadelphia political present President principles promote proposed provisions received republican Revolution Royal Society Saint Anthony Park SCHOOL scientific society Secretary Smithson Smithsonian Institution SOUTH CAROLINA Superintendent telegraph Territory tion transit of Venus United Virginia Washington Wilkes Expedition William York
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Page 98 - 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 - That 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...
Page 98 - States, but their assignees may thus locate said land scrip upon any of the unappropriated lands of the United States subject to sale at private entry at one dollar and twenty-five cents, or less, per acre...
Page 98 - ... that the moneys so invested 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 48 one college where the leading object shall be.
Page 99 - ... including state industrial and economical statistics, as may be supposed useful ; one copy of which shall be transmitted by mail free, by each, to all the other colleges which may be endowed under the provisions of this act, and also one copy to the secretary of the interior. Fifth, When lands shall be selected from those which have been raised to double the minimum price, in consequence of railroad grants, they shall be computed to the states at the maximum price, and the number of acres proportionally...
Page 18 - American Revolution with those of the late American War. The American War is over: but this is far from being the case with the American revolution. On the contrary, nothing but the first act of the great drama is closed.
Page 100 - ... 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...
Page 99 - 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; and the annual interest shall be regularly applied without diminution to the purposes mentioned in the fourth section...
Page 97 - 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 30,000 acres for each Senator and Representative in Congress to which the States are respectively entitled by the apportionment under the census of 1860: Provided, That no mineral lands shall be selected or purchased under the provisions of this act.
Page 98 - ... 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 several pursuits and professions of life.