 | Richard Vetterli, Gary C. Bryner - Business & Economics - 1996 - 294 pages
...first congresses. The Northwest Ordinance of 1787, which was re-enacted by the first Congress, declared that "religion, morality and knowledge, being necessary...the means of education shall be forever encouraged." As Clinton Rossiter has noted, schools in America had long since been actively involved in promoting... | |
 | Philip A. Greasley - Reference - 2001 - 980 pages
...in the evolving Midwest. This faith is reflected in the clause in the Ordinance of 1787 that states that "Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary...the means of education shall be forever encouraged" (The Old Northwest 271). Even earlier, the allocation in the Land Ordinance of 1785 states that "there... | |
 | Medicine - 1888 - 794 pages
...establishment of institutions such as the Woman's Medical College, by declaring under that ordinance that, " Religion, morality and knowledge being necessary...the means of education shall be forever encouraged." To-day, surrounded on all sides by evidences of progress, in a year crowned with the association of... | |
 | Freemasonry - 1928 - 826 pages
...educational questions faced by the Continental Congress when it passed the ordinance of 1787, declaring that "religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary,...the means of education shall be forever encouraged." The influence of changing economic conditions is being felt strongly in education. . . . THE BUREAU'S... | |
 | Locomotive engineers - 1892 - 1202 pages
...crystallized, a national grant of land was made for the maintenance of public schools, the act declaring that " religion, morality and knowledge being necessary...the means of education shall be forever encouraged." Since then, about 140,000,000 acres of the public lands have been donated to the States for the purpose.... | |
 | Southern Educational Association - Education - 1901 - 392 pages
...appreciation, when, in the ordinance of 1787 for the government of the north-west territory, it declared that "religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary...the means of education shall be forever encouraged. " In those states of the South and West which have claimed and received the heritage vouchsafed in... | |
 | Education - 1883 - 470 pages
...set apart for the maintenance of common schools, this action being accompanied with the declaration that "religion, morality and knowledge being necessary...the means of education shall be forever encouraged." The States which have received the sixteenth section under this law are, Ohio, Louisiana, Indiana,... | |
 | Detroit (Mich.). Board of Education - Education - 1921 - 446 pages
...the day. As far back as 1 787/our forefathers recognized the universal need for education and decreed that "Religion, morality and knowledge being necessary...the means of education shall be forever encouraged." Each step of progress since that time bears eloquent testimony to their wisdom. Education today is... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1838 - 540 pages
...most permanent influence on Ohio, is the system of common schools. The Ordinance of 1787 provided, that, "religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary...mankind, schools and the means of education shall be for ever encouraged." In the previous Ordinance of 1785, regulating the sale of lands in the West,... | |
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Ohio," confirmed the ordinance of 1785, and declared " that religion, morality and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall be forever encouraged. 
