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Page 28 - Territory shall be twenty-five thousand dollars, to be applied only to instruction in agriculture, the mechanic arts, the English language and the various branches of mathematical, physical, natural and economic science, with special reference to their applications in the industries of life, and to the facilities for such instruction...
Page 15 - 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 15 - The fundamental idea was to offer an opportunity in every State for a liberal and larger education to larger numbers, not merely to those destined to sedentary professions, but to those much needing higher instruction for the world's business, for the industrial pursuits and professions of life.7 • Justin S.
Page 15 - ... the mechanical trade of a carpenter or blacksmith should be taught. Secondly, it was a liberal education that was proposed. Classical studies were not to be excluded, and, therefore, must be included. The act...
Page 14 - ... course of studies similar to such as are generally taught in other colleges, and not inferior to that recently taught in said University of Vermont, and in addition to that which is usually taught in...
Page 43 - Any two or more highway boards may unite in appointing and paying the salary of a district surveyor, who shall in relation to the district of each of the boards by whom he is appointed have all the powers and duties of a district surveyor under the Highway Acts.
Page 28 - Territory; and no portion of said moneys shall be applied, directly or indirectly under any pretense whatever, to the purchase, erection, preservation or repair of anv building or buildings.
Page 118 - How much, if any, of the stock owned by its officers is pledged to the company as collateral ? Nono. Amount of loans due from directors: None. Total amount of its capital stock held by. the company as collateral: None. Rates of dividends for past five years: None.
Page 16 - If any would have only a school with equal scraps of labor and of instruction, or something other than a College, they would not obey the national law. Experience in manual labor, in the handling of tools and implements, is not to be disparaged ; in the proper time and place it is most essential, and generally something of this may be obtained either before or after the college term, but should not largely interfere with the precious time required for a definite amount of scientific and literary...

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