Transactions and Proceedings of the National Association of State Universities in the United States of America ...: Annual Meeting ..., Issues 15-17 |
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Page 49 - 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 176 - ... that learning may not be buried in the grave of our fathers in church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors; it is therefore ordered that every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read...
Page 176 - Hampshire, in the year 1769, is a contract within the meaning of that clause of the Constitution of the United States which declares that no State shall make any law impairing the obligation of contracts.
Page 92 - CEC will profit from continuous communication with the various bodies which represent the institutions of higher learning, such as the American Council on Education, the Association of American Universities, the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, the Association of State Colleges and Universities, the Association of American Colleges, the American Association of Junior Colleges, and others.
Page 118 - The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government. Sam Houston Cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy. ... It is the only dictator that freemen acknowledge and the only security that freemen desire.
Page 19 - ... second, not the first. A higher hand must make her mild, If all be not in vain, and guide Her footsteps, moving side by side With Wisdom, like the younger child; For she is earthly of the mind, But Wisdom heavenly of the soul.
Page 148 - Sixty thousand acres of unproductive home and vacant lots have been converted Into productive land. This will release an equal acreage now used in truck gardening for the production of other foodstuffs more important for war purposes. It will also relieve transportation congestion through home consumption of home-produced foodstuffs.
Page 105 - I have to say. If there are any questions, I shall be glad to answer them the best I can.
Page 95 - ... the full period of the war and In the trying times which will follow its close. We believe, second, that all colleges and universities should so modify their calendars and curricula as will most fully subserve the present needs of the Nation and utilize most profitably the time of the students and the Institutional plant, force, and equipment.
Page 93 - Do you favor the creation of a Federal Department of Education with a Secretary in the President's Cabinet?