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Page 43 - 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...
Page 34 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and cranks,* and wanton* wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Page 230 - Thus, on the borders of Berry and La Sologne, one meets with flocks originally sprung from a mixture of the two distinct races that are established in those two provinces. Among these, then, I chose such animals as seemed least defective, approaching, in fact, the nearest to, or rather departing the least from, the form which I wished ultimately to produce.
Page 234 - ... crossed, it is notorious that the tendency in the offspring to revert to one or both parent-forms is strong, and endures for many generations. I have myself seen the clearest evidence of this in crossed pigeons and with various plants. Mr. Sidney...
Page 231 - ... of the purest and most ancient English blood, with twelve and a half hundredths of four different French races, which are individually lost in the preponderance of English blood, and disappear almost entirely, leaving the improving type in the ascendant. The...
Page 81 - Council, and shall pass a thorough examination upon that course, showing in one of the subjects special attainments, and shall also...
Page 36 - State, depending entirely upon receipts from students to pay expenses, there can be no free admi:sion to its tables. Students or other persons bringing friends are required, therefore, to pay at the rate of twenty-five cents per meal for each such friend before admission to the dining hall. The conduct of students in the dining hall, during meals, is under the supervision of one of the professors, and is required to be in harmony with the strictest propriety. The provisions purchased for the boarding...
Page 42 - ... to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such a 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.
Page 36 - EXPENSES. Students pay actual cost for board, fires, lights, laundry, damages to college property when caused by themselves, care, lighting, warming, and general repairs of the College building and furniture, and such other incidental expenses as specially belong to them as a body. Students pay nothing for tuition or room rent, nor for the general expenses of the College. Damages to college property will be charged to the person damaging the same when known, but if its author is undiscovered it will...
Page 103 - Ward models," illustrating the principal larger fossils, is of service in this study, as well as in geology. There are besides the following collections in process of formation: an entomological cabinet, sets of the eggs and nests of birds, the brains of vertebrates, skulls of mammals, and skeletons of vertebrates. The museum is used during part of the year as a laboratory. The geological museum possesses a good collection of the common rocks and minerals to which the student has access.