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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... pupils . Contrast this with the record of forty years ago , when there were fewer than a dozen schools of this kind , with say thirty teachers and a thousand pupils , and the figures become sufficiently impressive . When we add to this ...
... pupils . Contrast this with the record of forty years ago , when there were fewer than a dozen schools of this kind , with say thirty teachers and a thousand pupils , and the figures become sufficiently impressive . When we add to this ...
Page 663
... pupils , while good in a way , is extremely narrow and little more than rudimentary . It cannot properly be called business training , it is merely clerical training . While this kind of training may have satisfied the requirements in ...
... pupils , while good in a way , is extremely narrow and little more than rudimentary . It cannot properly be called business training , it is merely clerical training . While this kind of training may have satisfied the requirements in ...
Page 669
... pupil in finding work . That it did this work well at least to the satisfaction of its pupils is sufficiently attested by the hundreds of thousands . of people who have attended the schools in the last fifty years . Pupils were required ...
... pupil in finding work . That it did this work well at least to the satisfaction of its pupils is sufficiently attested by the hundreds of thousands . of people who have attended the schools in the last fifty years . Pupils were required ...
Page 672
... pupils , and twelve smaller rooms for recitation purposes , offices , etc. In the early days of the school the students were mature young men , many of them having fought in the civil war , and coming home entered the school as a ...
... pupils , and twelve smaller rooms for recitation purposes , offices , etc. In the early days of the school the students were mature young men , many of them having fought in the civil war , and coming home entered the school as a ...
Page 673
... pupils , the number in recent years being almost equally divided between the stenographic and com- mercial departments . Though the school has the permission of the board of regents to continue the name " college , " it has voluntarily ...
... pupils , the number in recent years being almost equally divided between the stenographic and com- mercial departments . Though the school has the permission of the board of regents to continue the name " college , " it has voluntarily ...
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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...
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