Circular of Information of the Bureau of Education, for ..., Volume 11U.S. Government Printing Office, 1891 - Education |
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... first Board of Trustees of the first institution of learning founded in Indiana Terri- tory . This was the same year that Fulton's steamboat made its trial trip on the Hudson ; it was but four years after LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL.
... first Board of Trustees of the first institution of learning founded in Indiana Terri- tory . This was the same year that Fulton's steamboat made its trial trip on the Hudson ; it was but four years after LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL.
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... four States presented claims to the same or different parts of the Northwest Territory . Massachusetts and Connecticut claimed by their original royal char- ters all the land between their northern and southern parallels from the ...
... four States presented claims to the same or different parts of the Northwest Territory . Massachusetts and Connecticut claimed by their original royal char- ters all the land between their northern and southern parallels from the ...
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... four professors for the instruction of youth in Latin , Greek , French , and English languages , mathematics , natural philosophy , logic , rhetoric , and the law of nature and of nations . " The faculty was empowered to grant , with ...
... four professors for the instruction of youth in Latin , Greek , French , and English languages , mathematics , natural philosophy , logic , rhetoric , and the law of nature and of nations . " The faculty was empowered to grant , with ...
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... four years during which the Con- stitution required the lands to be withheld from sale had expired , the general assembly in session at Corydon established a " State Seminary " at Bloomington . Governor Jennings , in his message to the ...
... four years during which the Con- stitution required the lands to be withheld from sale had expired , the general assembly in session at Corydon established a " State Seminary " at Bloomington . Governor Jennings , in his message to the ...
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... four years ' course to be pursued as a specialty , each of the fifteen courses leading to the degree of A. B. The ... four years for comple- tion , and that the student shall follow some special line for three or four years . It is ...
... four years ' course to be pursued as a specialty , each of the fifteen courses leading to the degree of A. B. The ... four years for comple- tion , and that the student shall follow some special line for three or four years . It is ...
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Page 135 - After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.
Page 21 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted : Provided always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed, and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Page 70 - It shall be the duty of the General assembly, as soon as circumstances will permit, to provide, by law, for a general system of education, ascending in a regular gradation, from township schools to a state university, wherein tuition shall be gratis, and equally open to all.
Page 33 - If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Page 50 - Faith, etc., having undertaken for the glory of God and the advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our King and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia...
Page 23 - No person demeaning himself in a peaceable and orderly manner, shall ever be molested on account of his mode of worship or religious sentiments, in the said territory.
Page 100 - The Legislature shall encourage the promotion of intellectual, scientific and agricultural improvement; and shall, as soon as practicable, provide for the establishment of an Agricultural School.
Page 24 - I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787.
Page 53 - All lands that have been or may hereafter be granted to the State, where no special purpose is expressed in the grant and the proceeds of the sales thereof, including the proceeds of the sales of the swamp lands...
Page 104 - States shall be applied, directly or indirectly, to the purchase, erection, preservation, or repair of any building or buildings...