Education in the United States: A Series of Monographs Prepared for the United States Exhibit at the Paris Exposition, 1900, Volume 2Nicholas Murray Butler J. B. Lyon Company, 1900 - Education |
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... present century . The Seminary of the reformed Dutch church in America was founded in 1784 . In that year Drs Livingston and Meyer were set apart to be professors of theology and the method of training men for the ministry by any ...
... present century . The Seminary of the reformed Dutch church in America was founded in 1784 . In that year Drs Livingston and Meyer were set apart to be professors of theology and the method of training men for the ministry by any ...
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... Present tendencies- Dr C. A. Briggs wrote as follows on theological education in 1892 : " The course in theology is still very defective in the great majority of the theological schools but no one can deny real and great progress The ...
... Present tendencies- Dr C. A. Briggs wrote as follows on theological education in 1892 : " The course in theology is still very defective in the great majority of the theological schools but no one can deny real and great progress The ...
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... present time three methods of instruction are used . " The 1898 report of the committee on legal education of the American bar association gives returns from 20 law schools , including the leading schools of the country , on instruction ...
... present time three methods of instruction are used . " The 1898 report of the committee on legal education of the American bar association gives returns from 20 law schools , including the leading schools of the country , on instruction ...
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... present himself and if successful gain . admission to practise before all state courts . The tests at best demanded little knowledge of legal principles ; usually they were a farce . 15 states required a definite period of study ; 6 ...
... present himself and if successful gain . admission to practise before all state courts . The tests at best demanded little knowledge of legal principles ; usually they were a farce . 15 states required a definite period of study ; 6 ...
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... present requirements- In the following politi- cal divisions law - school diplomas do not now confer the right to practise law , an examination being required by statute in all cases : Arizona Indian ter . Arkansas Choctaw nat . Montana ...
... present requirements- In the following politi- cal divisions law - school diplomas do not now confer the right to practise law , an examination being required by statute in all cases : Arizona Indian ter . Arkansas Choctaw nat . Montana ...
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Page 871 - ... all philosophical experiments that let light into the nature of things, tend to increase the power of man over matter, and multiply the conveniences or pleasures of life.
Page 612 - 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 869 - The objects of the Association are, by periodical and migratory meetings, to promote intercourse between those who are cultivating science In different parts of America, to give a stronger and more general impulse and more systematic direction to scientific research, and to procure for the labors of scientific men increased facilities and a wider usefulness.
Page 612 - 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 775 - Hartford had secured from the state legislature the incorporation of the Connecticut asylum for the education and instruction of deaf and dumb persons.
Page 618 - 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 605 - 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 799 - The poor child had sat in mute amazement, and patiently imitated everything her teacher did; but now the truth began to flash upon her: her intellect began to work: she perceived that here was a way by which she could herself make up a sign of anything that was in her own mind, and show it to another mind...
Page 898 - And virgin earth fresh scenes ensue, The force of art by nature seems outdone, And fancied beauties by the true : " In happy climes, the seat of innocence, Where nature guides and virtue rules, Where men shall not impose for truth and sense The pedantry...