Where to Educate, 1898-1899: A Guide to the Best Private Schools, Higher Institutions of Learning, Etc., in the United States

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Grace Powers Thomas
Brown and Company, 1898 - Education - 394 pages
 

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Page 49 - 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, in such manner as the legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the...
Page 348 - The course of instruction shall embrace the English language and literature, mathematics, civil engineering, agricultural chemistry, animal and vegetable anatomy and physiology, the veterinary art, entomology, geology, and such other natural sciences as may be prescribed, technology, political, rural and household economy, horticulture, moral philosophy, history, bookkeeping, and especially the application of science and the mechanic arts to practical agriculture in the field.
Page 40 - 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 194 - The College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts and the School of Mines and Metallurgy were made departments of the University...
Page 179 - The University of Michigan is a part of the public educational system of the state. The governing body of the institution is a Board of Regents, elected by popular vote for terms of eight years, as provided in the constitution of the state. In accordance with the law of the state, the University aims to complete and crown the work that is begun in the public schools, by furnishing ample facilities for liberal education in literature, science, and...
Page 201 - The objects of said department shall be: Instruction in the fine arts; the collection and exhibition of pictures, statuary, and other works of art, and of whatever else may be of artistic interest and appropriate for a public gallery or art museum; and, in general, the promotion by all proper means of aesthetic or artistic education.
Page 246 - York, and do not extend to exclude any person of any Religious Denomination whatever from Equal Liberty and advantage of Education, or from any of the Degrees, Liberties, Priviledges, Benefits, or Immunities of the said College, on account of his particular Tenets in matters of Religion...
Page 157 - The design of the school is strictly professional; that is, to prepare in the best possible manner the pupils for the work of organizing, governing, and teaching the public schools of the Commonwealth. To this end there must be the most thorough knowledge, first, of the branches of learning required to be taught in the schools; second, of the best methods of teaching those branches; and third, of right mental training.
Page 100 - Alma is a co-educational liberal arts college with courses leading to the degrees of bachelor of arts, bachelor of science, and bachelor of music education.
Page 201 - University adopted an ordinance establishing a Department of Art in Washington University, from which the following extracts are taken : — " A Department of Art is hereby established as a special Department of Washington University, to be known as THE ST. Louis SCHOOL...

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