 | United States. Bureau of Education - Education - 1890 - 372 pages
...university to counteract evil tendencies, he wrote in his last will and testament the following passage: "Looking anxiously forward to the accomplishment of...to effect the measure than the establishment of a Uni1 Sparks, XII, 9. 2Ibid. :' Sparks, XII, 71. • * IbiA., 227. versity in a central part of the... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - Grottoes (Va.) - 1871 - 466 pages
...empire, thereby to do away local attachments and State prejudices, as far as the nature of tilings would, or indeed ought to admit, from our national...to contemplate any plan more likely to effect the measures, than the establishment of a UNIVERSITY in a central part of the United States, to which the... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - Mount Vernon - 1871 - 458 pages
...indeed ought to admit, from our national coundls. Looking anxiously forward to the accomplishment ef so desirable an object as this is (in my estimation,)...to contemplate any. plan more likely to effect the measures, than the 27 establishment of a UNIVERSITY in a central part of the United States, to which... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1873 - 550 pages
...this rising empire, thereby to do away local attachments and State prejudices, as far as the nature of things would, or indeed ought to admit, from our...able to contemplate any plan more likely to effect ».he measure, than the establishment of a UN1VEBTY in a central part of the United States, to which... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - Education - 1873 - 284 pages
...RISING EMPIRE, thereby to do away with local attachments and state prejudices in our national councils. My mind has not been able to contemplate any plan more likely to effect this measure than the establishment of a university in a central part of the United States, to which... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1876 - 620 pages
...this rising empire, thereby to do away local attachments and State prejudices, as far as the nature of things would, or indeed ought to admit, from our...not been able to contemplate any plan more likely to affect the measure, than the establishment of a University in a central part of the United States,... | |
 | Education - 1878 - 1074 pages
...this rising empire, thereby to do away local attachments and State prejudices, as far as the nature of things would, or indeed ought to admit, from our...not been able to contemplate any plan more likely to affect the measure, than the establishment of a University in a central part of the United States,... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1878 - 1070 pages
...this rising empire, thereby to do away local attachments and State prejudices, as far as the natu-e of things would, or indeed ought to admit, from our...not been able to contemplate any plan more likely to affect the measure, than the establishment of a University in a central part of the United States,... | |
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... for these reasons it has been my ardent wish to see a plan devised on a liberal scale, which would have a tendency to spread systematic ideas through all parts of this rising empire, thereby to do away local attachments and State prejudices, as far... 
