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... Earliest Settlements Richard Gause Boone. International Education Series EDITED BY WILLIAM T. HARRIS , A. M. , LL . D. VOLUME XI . LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 12mo , cloth , uniform binding . THE INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION.
... Earliest Settlements Richard Gause Boone. International Education Series EDITED BY WILLIAM T. HARRIS , A. M. , LL . D. VOLUME XI . LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 12mo , cloth , uniform binding . THE INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION.
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... volumes in the way of introduction , analysis , and commentary . 1. The Philosophy of Education . By JOHANN K. F. ROSENKRANZ , Doc- tor of Theology and Professor of Philosophy , University of Königsberg . Translated by ANNA C. BRACKETT ...
... volumes in the way of introduction , analysis , and commentary . 1. The Philosophy of Education . By JOHANN K. F. ROSENKRANZ , Doc- tor of Theology and Professor of Philosophy , University of Königsberg . Translated by ANNA C. BRACKETT ...
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... By FABIAN WARE . $ 1.20 net . 55. Genetic Psychology for Teachers . By CHARLES H. JUDD , Ph . D. $ 1.20 net . OTHER VOLUMES IN PREPARATION . D. APPLETON AND COMPANY , NEW YORK . EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES ITS HISTORY FROM THE EARLIEST.
... By FABIAN WARE . $ 1.20 net . 55. Genetic Psychology for Teachers . By CHARLES H. JUDD , Ph . D. $ 1.20 net . OTHER VOLUMES IN PREPARATION . D. APPLETON AND COMPANY , NEW YORK . EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES ITS HISTORY FROM THE EARLIEST.
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... volumes , including much valuable literature upon special phases of education and educational institutions , and the Maryland Historical Library , both of Baltimore ; the Library of Congress , and the Pedagogical Library of the United ...
... volumes , including much valuable literature upon special phases of education and educational institutions , and the Maryland Historical Library , both of Baltimore ; the Library of Congress , and the Pedagogical Library of the United ...
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... volume , the author's formal acknowledg- ment of their services is here gratefully given . Care has been taken to verify facts , where it has been possible , by reference to first and official records . But , as has already been ...
... volume , the author's formal acknowledg- ment of their services is here gratefully given . Care has been taken to verify facts , where it has been possible , by reference to first and official records . But , as has already been ...
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Page 310 - Washington a department of education for the purpose of collecting such statistics and facts as shall show the condition and progress of education in the several States and Territories and of diffusing such information respecting the organization and management of schools and school systems, and methods of teaching, as shall aid the people of the United States in the establishment and maintenance of efficient school systems, and otherwise promote the cause of education throughout the country.
Page 45 - It is therefore ordered, That every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read...
Page 47 - Forasmuch as the good education of children is of singular behoof and benefit to any commonwealth, and whereas many parents and masters are too indulgent and negligent of their duty in that kind...
Page 323 - Agriculture, the ^ general designs and duties of which shall be to acquire and 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, pro- , pagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants.
Page 47 - It is ordered that the selectmen of every town, in the several precincts and quarters where they dwell, shall have a vigilant eye over their brethren and neighbors, to see first that none of them shall suffer so much barbarism in any of their families, as not to endeavor to teach, by themselves or others, their children and apprentices, so much learning, as may enable them perfectly to read the English tongue, and knowledge of the capital laws: upon penalty of twenty shillings for each neglect therein.
Page 49 - Court and testify unto them, that their son is stubborn and rebellious and will not obey their voice and chastisement, but lives in sundry notorious crimes, such a son shall be put to death.
Page 89 - That the convention hereinafter provided for, when formed, shall ratify the boundaries aforesaid; otherwise they shall be and remain as now prescribed by the ordinance for the government of the territory northwest of the river Ohio...
Page 21 - After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.
Page 308 - ... charged with collecting and diffusing information, and enabled by premiums and small pecuniary aids to encourage and assist a spirit of discovery and improvement.
Page 256 - No Indian nation or tribe, within the territory of the United States shall be acknowledged or recognized as an independent nation, tribe, or power, with whom the United States may contract by treaty...