 | United States. Bureau of Education, United States. Office of Education - Education - 1886 - 844 pages
...statues of marble. The national endowment or permanent support of the higher political education " within the limits of the District of Columbia, under the auspices of the General Government," would realize the highest ideal of the Father of his country. This ideal was Washington's last will... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - Education - 1886 - 378 pages
...councils. In his last will he bequeathed fifty shares hi the Potomac Company " toward the endowment of a university to be established within the limits of the District of Columbia." The plan of granting a certain portion of the public lands for educational purposes had its beginning... | |
 | 1897 - 560 pages
...aforesaid acts of the legislature of Virginia) toward the endowment of a university to be established in the District of Columbia under the auspices of the...Government, if that Government should incline to extend a fostering hand toward it; and until such a seminary is established and the funds arising on these shares... | |
 | Education - 1887 - 524 pages
...or statues of marble. The national endowment or permanent support of the higher political education 'within the limits of the District of Columbia, under the auspices of the General Government,' would realize the highest ideal of the Father of his Country. This idt-al was Washington's last will... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - Education - 1887 - 828 pages
...statues of marble. The national endowment or permanent support of the higher political education " within the limits of the District of Columbia, under the auspices of the General Government," would realize the highest ideal of the Father of hie Country. This ideal was Washington's last will... | |
 | 1887 - 620 pages
...ur scatues of marble. The national endowment or permanent support of the higher political education "within the limits of the District of Columbia, under the auspices of the General Government," would realize the highest ideal of the Father of his country. This ideal was Washington's last will... | |
 | Charles Kendall Adams - Education - 1888 - 54 pages
...Potomac Company (under the aforesaid act of the Legislature of Virginia), towards the endowment of a university, to be established within the limits of...Government, if that Government should incline to extend a fostering hand towards it ; and, until such seminary is established, and the funds arising on these... | |
 | Herbert Baxter Adams - Education - 1888 - 732 pages
...or statues of marble. The national endowment or permanent support of the higher political education "within the limits of the District of Columbia, under the auspices of the General Government," would realize the highest ideal of the Father of his country. This ideal was Washington's last will... | |
 | State Historical Society of Wisconsin - Wisconsin - 1889 - 674 pages
...perpetuity, the h'fty shares which I hold in the Potomac company, * * * towards the endowment of a university, to be established within the limits of...should incline to extend a favoring hand towards it." Washington's dream of a great university, rising grandly upon the Maryland bank of the Potomac, remained... | |
 | George Washington - Presidents - 1799 - 574 pages
...Potomac Company (under the aforesaid Acts of the Legislature of Virginia) towards the endowment of a University to be established within the limits of...Government, if that Government should incline to extend a fostering hand towards it, — and until such seminary is established, and the funds arising on these... | |
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Item. I give and bequeath in perpetuity the fifty shares which I hold in the Potomac Company (under the aforesaid Acts of the Legislature of Virginia) towards the endowment of a UNIVERSITY to be established within the limits of the District of Columbia,... 
