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ACTING CHAIRMAN administer admitted Agricultural and Mechanical Agricultural College amendment applied arts and sciences August 31 Baptist benefits bill board of trustees cent charter citizens coeducational College of Agriculture colored race Columbian College Columbian University committee Congress Corcoran fund course current expenses dean deficit designation District Legislature District of Columbia District's Morrill appropriation Doctor HARLAN Doctor NEEDHAM ending August 31 endowment fact Federal Government Federal Treasury Folkmar Gallinger-Boutell George Wash George Washington Uni George Washington University Georgetown University give graduate grant of money House Howard University ington University interest James's KELLY MILLER Massachusetts matter mechanic arts Mechanical College medicine memorandum MILLER Morrill Acts Morrill fund nonsectarian present President James private institution professional schools purpose question receive reference religious religious denomination representing Salaries sectarian institution Senator BURKETT Senator CRAWFORD Senator MONEY student body subsidy Territories tion to-day United versity women
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Page 6 - Acting upon this second petition, on February 9, 1821, Congress chartered Columbian College in the District of Columbia, inserting in the charter by special action the provision "that persons of every religious denomination shall be capable of being elected Trustees; nor shall any person, either as President, Professor, Tutor or pupil, be refused admittance into said College or denied any of the privileges, immunities or advantages thereof, for or on account of his sentiments in matters of religion".
Page 85 - AN ACT To provide for the further development of agricultural extension work between the agricultural colleges in the several States receiving the benefits of the act entitled "An act donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts...
Page 1 - An act donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts", approved July 2, 1862, and all acts supplementary thereto, and the United States Department of Agriculture.
Page 88 - persons of every religious denomination shall be capable of being elected trustees, nor shall any person, either as principal, professor, tutor or pupil, be refused admittance into said college, or denied any of the privileges, immunities or advantages thereof, for, or on account of his sentiments in matters of religion.
Page 10 - 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 85 - ... act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two," and the expenditure of the said money shall be governed in all respects by the provisions of the said act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two...
Page 78 - ... the American University, under the auspices of the Methodist denomination, has been established as a school for research and advanced scholarship. About the year 1817, during the administration of President Monroe, the Rev. Luther Rice, agent of the Baptist General Convention of the United States, conceived the idea of founding a college in the City of Washington. In 1819 a lot of ground north of Washington, the site afterwards occupied by Columbian College, embracing nearly forty-seven acres...
Page 50 - ... the said book or journal, the names of all the contributors to the institution qualified to vote for trustees, with their respective places of residence; and the said book or journal shall at all times be open to the Inspection or examination of the Attorney-General of the United States...
Page 12 - ... and the said book or journal shall at all times be open to the Inspection or examination of the Attorney-General of the United States; and, when required by either House of Congress, it shall be the duty of said trustees to furnish information respecting their own conduct, the state of the institution, and of its finances, which shall or may be so required.
Page 12 - General of the United States; and, when required by either house of Congress, it shall be the duty of the said trustees to furnish any information respecting their own conduct, the state of the institution, and of its finances, which shall or may be so required.