... Monographs on Education in the United States, Volume 2J. B. Lyon Company, 1900 - Education |
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Page 517
... manual and ocular skill , and cultivating the mental powers of close attention through prolonged investi- gations at close quarters with the facts , and of just reasoning on the evidence . The subjects of instruction are arranged , as ...
... manual and ocular skill , and cultivating the mental powers of close attention through prolonged investi- gations at close quarters with the facts , and of just reasoning on the evidence . The subjects of instruction are arranged , as ...
Page 603
... popular demand for information on this subject by ordering the preparation and publication of a manual of silk culture , which was done . The United States department of agriculture grew finally out of 603 ] II AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION.
... popular demand for information on this subject by ordering the preparation and publication of a manual of silk culture , which was done . The United States department of agriculture grew finally out of 603 ] II AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION.
Page 606
... manual training schools or technical schools in the modern sense , but schools having farms attached where the students could support themselves by manual labor while pursuing their studies . This plan , which found much popular favor ...
... manual training schools or technical schools in the modern sense , but schools having farms attached where the students could support themselves by manual labor while pursuing their studies . This plan , which found much popular favor ...
Page 613
... manual but intellectual instruction was the paramount object . It was not provided that agricultural labor in the field should be practically taught , any more than that the mechanical trade of a carpenter or blacksmith should be taught ...
... manual but intellectual instruction was the paramount object . It was not provided that agricultural labor in the field should be practically taught , any more than that the mechanical trade of a carpenter or blacksmith should be taught ...
Page 614
Nicholas Murray Butler. not obey the national law . Experience in manual labor , in the handling of tools and implements , is not to be dispar- aged ; in the proper time and place it is most essential , and generally something of this ...
Nicholas Murray Butler. not obey the national law . Experience in manual labor , in the handling of tools and implements , is not to be dispar- aged ; in the proper time and place it is most essential , and generally something of this ...
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Page 608 - 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 608 - 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 eighteen hundred and sixty: Provided, That no mineral lands shall be selected or purchased under the provisions of this act.
Page 767 - Hartford had secured from the state legislature the incorporation of the Connecticut asylum for the education and instruction of deaf and dumb persons.
Page 525 - Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming Total...
Page 614 - 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 601 - Agriculture, the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants.
Page 514 - States army, navy or marine hospital service in the discharge of their official duties, or to any person who ministers to or treats the sick or suffering by mental or spiritual means, without the use of any drug or material remedy.
Page 592 - Nor am I less persuaded, that you will agree with me in opinion, that there is nothing which can better deserve your patronage than the promotion of science and literature.
Page 639 - In Connecticut, New Jersey, New York. Hawaii, Missouri, Alabama, and Louisiana separate stations are maintained wholly or in part by State funds. A number of substations are also maintained in different States. Excluding the...
Page 605 - The Legislature shall encourage the promotion of intellectual, scientific and agricultural improvement; and shall, as soon as practicable, provide for the establishment of an Agricultural School.