The Cyclopædia of Education: a Dictionary of Information for the Use of Teachers, School Officers, Parents, and OthersHenry Kiddle, Alexander Jacob Schem |
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... preparatory , a collegiate , an succeeded with a few individuals , by the use of eclectic , a scientific , and a theological course , to raised letters , he opened a small school , which in which both sexes are admitted on equal terms ...
... preparatory , a collegiate , an succeeded with a few individuals , by the use of eclectic , a scientific , and a theological course , to raised letters , he opened a small school , which in which both sexes are admitted on equal terms ...
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... preparatory students . The School of all Sciences was established in 1874 . value of its grounds , buildings , etc. , is $ 200,000 , The school of theology was formerly the Meth- and it has a library of about 4,000 volumes . odist ...
... preparatory students . The School of all Sciences was established in 1874 . value of its grounds , buildings , etc. , is $ 200,000 , The school of theology was formerly the Meth- and it has a library of about 4,000 volumes . odist ...
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... preparatory and 18 collegiate students . The Rev. F. R. Earle , A. M. , is ( 1876 ) the president . CAPITAL UNIVERSITY , at Columbus , Ohio , was organized in 1850 by the Evangelical Lutheran synod of Ohio and the adjacent states ...
... preparatory and 18 collegiate students . The Rev. F. R. Earle , A. M. , is ( 1876 ) the president . CAPITAL UNIVERSITY , at Columbus , Ohio , was organized in 1850 by the Evangelical Lutheran synod of Ohio and the adjacent states ...
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... preparatory department . Rooms in the dormitories are free of rent . In 1872-73 there were 5 instructors , 100 preparatory and 24 col- legiate students , and 203 alumni . The Rev. C. G. Andrews , A. M. , is ( 1876 ) the president ...
... preparatory department . Rooms in the dormitories are free of rent . In 1872-73 there were 5 instructors , 100 preparatory and 24 col- legiate students , and 203 alumni . The Rev. C. G. Andrews , A. M. , is ( 1876 ) the president ...
Page 120
... preparatory and a collegiate department . The latter embraces five schools ; namely , pure and applied mathematics , moral philosophy , English language and litera- ture , ancient languages and literature , and phys- ical science . Each ...
... preparatory and a collegiate department . The latter embraces five schools ; namely , pure and applied mathematics , moral philosophy , English language and litera- ture , ancient languages and literature , and phys- ical science . Each ...
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Page 97 - I call, therefore, a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices both private and public, of peace and war.
Page 305 - In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention; all other intellectual gratifications are rejected ; the mind, in weariness or leisure, recurs constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth.
Page 68 - MAN, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature: beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.
Page 66 - They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit and made a satellite instead of a system.
Page 8 - Congress, according to the census of 1860, for 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, ... in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions of life.
Page 184 - And hardly she forbears, through awful fear, To rushen forth, and, with presumptuous hand, To stay harsh justice in its mid career. On thee she calls, on thee her parent dear! . . (Ah ! too remote to ward the shameful blow!) She sees no kind domestic visage near, And soon a flood of tears begins to flow ; And gives a loose at last to unavailing woe.
Page 48 - Intelligence and virtue being the safeguards of liberty and the bulwark of a free and good government, the state shall ever maintain a general, suitable and efficient system of free schools, whereby all persons in the state between the ages of six and twenty-one years may receive gratuitous instruction.
Page 97 - The Exercise which I commend first, is the exact use of their Weapon, to guard and to strike safely with edge, or point ; this will keep them healthy, nimble, strong, and well in breath, is also the likeliest means to make them grow large and tall, and to inspire them with a gallant and fearless courage...
Page 105 - 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 184 - ... would beat a boy equally for not knowing a thing, as for neglecting to know it. He would ask a boy a question, and if he did not answer it, he would beat him, without considering whether he had an opportunity of knowing how to answer it. For instance, he would call up a boy and ask him Latin for a candlestick, which the boy could not expect to be asked. Now, sir, if a boy could answer every question, there would be no need of a master to teach him.