Semi-centennial History of the University of Illinois, Volume 1University of Illinois, 1918 |
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... hand in hand are invincible . " His wish was a splendid prophecy which has been splendidly fulfilled . It is only by a patient study of its own history that a people may come to an understanding of what it really is and how it has come ...
... hand in hand are invincible . " His wish was a splendid prophecy which has been splendidly fulfilled . It is only by a patient study of its own history that a people may come to an understanding of what it really is and how it has come ...
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... hands ( certainly none beyond the original outfit ) to squander in day dreaming and absurd speculations . I would have every new ex- periment bear directly on his own private purse so that it might be made economically as well as ...
... hands ( certainly none beyond the original outfit ) to squander in day dreaming and absurd speculations . I would have every new ex- periment bear directly on his own private purse so that it might be made economically as well as ...
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... hands shall the guardianship and oversight of this fund be placed , in order to make it of any real use for such a purpose ? I answer , without hesitation and without fear , that this whole interest should , from the first , be placed ...
... hands shall the guardianship and oversight of this fund be placed , in order to make it of any real use for such a purpose ? I answer , without hesitation and without fear , that this whole interest should , from the first , be placed ...
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... hands and wait to see what is to be done in the older states . " Under the same date , still in the Prairie Farmer , John A. Kennicott of the Grove , wrote the following vigorous opinion in regard to the situation : " The history of all ...
... hands and wait to see what is to be done in the older states . " Under the same date , still in the Prairie Farmer , John A. Kennicott of the Grove , wrote the following vigorous opinion in regard to the situation : " The history of all ...
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... hands , to suit this new thought of educating hand - workers as well as head- workers , in the knowledge of things next to them , and place the brain that conceives and directs , in the same body that furnished the hands to execute the ...
... hands , to suit this new thought of educating hand - workers as well as head- workers , in the knowledge of things next to them , and place the brain that conceives and directs , in the same body that furnished the hands to execute the ...
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Page 567 - ... section of this act, or the grant to such state shall cease; and said state shall be bound to pay the United States the amount received of any lands previously sold, and that the title to purchasers under the state- shall be valid. Fourth. An annual report shall be made regarding the progress of each college, recording any improvements and experiments made, with their cost and results...
Page 566 - Any State which may take and claim the benefit of the provisions of this act shall provide, within five years, at least not less than one college, as described in the fourth section of this act, or the grant to such State shall cease...
Page ix - 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 584 - 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 diminished. Sixth. No State while in a condition of rebellion or insurrection against the Government of the United States shall be entitled to the benefit of this act.
Page 582 - 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 583 - ... 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 582 - ... of such State, and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed to issue to each of the States in which there is not the quantity of public lands subject to sale at private entry at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre to which said State may be entitled under the provisions of this act...
Page 583 - That all the expenses of management, superintendence, and taxes from date of selection of said lands, previous to their sales, and all expenses incurred in the management and disbursement of the moneys which may be received therefrom, shall be paid by the States to which they may belong, out of the treasury of said States, so that the entire proceeds of the sale of said lands shall be applied without any diminution whatever to the purposes hereinafter mentioned.
Page 565 - That all moneys derived from the sale of the lands aforesaid by the States to which the lands are apportioned, and from the sales of land scrip hereinbefore provided for, shall be invested in stocks of the United States, or of the States, or some other safe stocks yielding not less than five per centum upon the par value of said stocks...
Page 473 - State was then entitled for the "endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts...