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... writing the foregoing , intelligence has been received of another of the great sacrifices we make to save our country . My predecessor , Ex Governor Moses Wisner , Colonel Com- manding the 22d Regiment of Infantry , died at his post of ...
... writing the foregoing , intelligence has been received of another of the great sacrifices we make to save our country . My predecessor , Ex Governor Moses Wisner , Colonel Com- manding the 22d Regiment of Infantry , died at his post of ...
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... Grand Rapids , Lansing , Cleveland , Altoona , Baltimore and Wash- ington , ... 75 36 " " paid Gilbert & Co. , for 1 writing desk , ..... 15 00 I. Gillett , Jr. , to repair clock in Representative 8 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE.
... Grand Rapids , Lansing , Cleveland , Altoona , Baltimore and Wash- ington , ... 75 36 " " paid Gilbert & Co. , for 1 writing desk , ..... 15 00 I. Gillett , Jr. , to repair clock in Representative 8 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE.
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... writing ; and in many of the earlier schools , no other stud- ies were permitted . Arithmetic , if taught at all , was confined to evening schools . In time , however , the importance of learn- ing " to cipher " came to be generally ...
... writing ; and in many of the earlier schools , no other stud- ies were permitted . Arithmetic , if taught at all , was confined to evening schools . In time , however , the importance of learn- ing " to cipher " came to be generally ...
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... writing and ciphering , being still considered by many as of old , the only ones absolutely essential to a common school education . Other branches , such as book - keeping , algebra , natural phi- losophy , physiology , and history ...
... writing and ciphering , being still considered by many as of old , the only ones absolutely essential to a common school education . Other branches , such as book - keeping , algebra , natural phi- losophy , physiology , and history ...
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... Writing and ciphering are useful in daily business . Beyond these , it mat- tered but little what was studied , or in what order . To sit down to a patient observation of the natural inclina- tions and tastes of the childish intellect ...
... Writing and ciphering are useful in daily business . Beyond these , it mat- tered but little what was studied , or in what order . To sit down to a patient observation of the natural inclina- tions and tastes of the childish intellect ...
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Page 85 - ... 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, 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 13 - That there be granted to the several States, for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, an amount of public land, to be apportioned to each State a quantity equal to thirty thousand acres for each Senator and Representative in Congress to which the States are respectively entitled by the apportionment under the census of 1860: Provided, That no mineral lands shall be selected or purchased under the provisions of this act.
Page 13 - ... 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 85 - ... that a sum, not exceeding ten per centum upon the amount received by any State under the provisions of this act, may be expended for the purchase of lands for sites or experimental farms, whenever authorized by the respective legislatures of said States.
Page 84 - 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 82 - Let me write the songs of a people, and I care not who makes their laws.
Page 49 - The State board of agriculture shall have authority to sell and dispose of any portions of the swamp lands mentioned in the preceding section of this act, and use the same, or the proceeds thereof, for the purpose of draining, fencing or in any manner improving such other portions of said...
Page 85 - Seventh. No State shall be entitled to the benefits of this act unless it shall express its acceptance thereof by its legislature within two years from the date of its approval by the President.
Page 5 - The Secretary shall receive, as a compensation for his services, a salary of one thousand dollars per annum, to be paid quarterly from the State treasury, in the same manner as is provided by law for the payment of the salaries of State officers.