Annual Report of the American Historical AssociationU.S. Government Printing Office, 1890 - Historiography |
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... advance was made when Andrew D. White , fresh from original studies in France and Germany , entered upon an historical pro- fessorship in 1857 , at the University of Michigan . From that institution President White's influence was ...
... advance was made when Andrew D. White , fresh from original studies in France and Germany , entered upon an historical pro- fessorship in 1857 , at the University of Michigan . From that institution President White's influence was ...
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... advances have here been made ; but a very brief presentation will be enough to show , I think , that even greater progress has been made in many of the coun- tries of the Old World . " In the preparation of this address I have been ...
... advances have here been made ; but a very brief presentation will be enough to show , I think , that even greater progress has been made in many of the coun- tries of the Old World . " In the preparation of this address I have been ...
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... advances which , in certain directions , are being made in the Old World . It would probably be easy to show that ... advance . It will be convenient to look first at the teaching of history in the United States , and then at the ...
... advances which , in certain directions , are being made in the Old World . It would probably be easy to show that ... advance . It will be convenient to look first at the teaching of history in the United States , and then at the ...
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... advances could be made . This distinguished historian unquestionably gave an impulse to studies in American history , but he left the foundations and methods substantially as he had found them . Very few lectures on general history seem ...
... advances could be made . This distinguished historian unquestionably gave an impulse to studies in American history , but he left the foundations and methods substantially as he had found them . Very few lectures on general history seem ...
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... advance . But these were not wholly within the domain of history . Graduates of Yale , not yet quite venerable , remember with little satisfaction the course of history which consisted chiefly of lessons learned verbatim et literatim ...
... advance . But these were not wholly within the domain of history . Graduates of Yale , not yet quite venerable , remember with little satisfaction the course of history which consisted chiefly of lessons learned verbatim et literatim ...
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Adams Address delivered AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION American Antiquarian Society American Historical Association American History ANDREW DICKSON Annual Antiquarian Society April Bishop of Iowa Boston Cambridge CHARLES CARD CHARLES COLCOCK Charles Henry Hart Chicago Church City College Colony Congress Connecticut December Education Edward electrotyped Encyclopædia England established February Fisheries FRANCIS G. P. Putnam's Sons GEORGE BROWN GREEN HART HENRY Historical Sketch illustrated Institution James January Jefferson JOHN FLETCHER JOHN WATTS John Wilson Journal July June Justin Winsor land Library Magazine of American Magazine of Western maps MARTHA Massachusetts Historical Society Memoir ment Monthly November observatory October Office Ohio paper PEYSTER Philadelphia Philosophical Society plates political portrait President Privately printed Proceedings Prof Professor published Report Reprinted ROBERT CHARLES SAMUEL ABBOTT scientific Secretary seminary SMITH Smithsonian STRYKER Territory tion United University Virginia Washington Western History WHEILDON William Stevens Perry WILLIAM WILLDER Winthrop York
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Page 148 - That in order to aid in acquiring and diffusing among the people of the United States useful and practical information on subjects connected with agriculture, and to promote scientific investigation and experiment respecting the principles and applications of agricultural science...
Page 174 - Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, Like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
Page 148 - AN ACT to establish agricultural experiment stations in connection with the colleges established in the several States under the provisions of an act approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the acts supplementary thereto.
Page 148 - An annual report shall be made regarding the progress of each college, recording any improvements and experiments made, with their cost and results, and such other matters, including State industrial and economical statistics, as may be supposed useful; one copy of which shall be transmitted by mail free, by each, to all the other colleges which may be endowed under the provisions of this act, and also one copy to the Secretary of the Interior.
Page 54 - A Proposal for Promoting Useful Knowledge among the British Plantations in America.
Page 147 - ... 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 several pursuits and professions in life.
Page 147 - 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...
Page 148 - 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, 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 void.
Page 147 - If any portion of the fund invested, as provided by the foregoing section, or any portion of the interest thereon, shall, by any action or contingency be diminished or lost, it shall be replaced by the State to which it belongs, so that the capital of the fund shall remain forever undiminished...
Page 66 - American Revolution with those of the late American war. The American war is over: but this is far from being the case with the American revolution. On the contrary, nothing but the first act of the great drama is closed.