 | National Education Association of the United States - Education - 1889 - 746 pages
...university. Washington, in his last will and testament, made a liberal bequest "towards the endowment of a university, to be established within the limits of...Columbia, under the auspices of the general government," and he said " that the accomplishment of the object will be obtained, I have not the smallest doubt,... | |
 | Worthington Chauncey Ford - 1891 - 234 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... | |
 | John Wesley Hoyt - 1892 - 132 pages
...toward the endowment of a university to be established in the District of Columbia under the anspices of the General 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... | |
 | John Wesley Hoyt - 1892 - 136 pages
...toward the endowment of a university to be established in the District of Columbia under the anspices of the General 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... | |
 | George Washington - Quotations, American - 1894 - 510 pages
...towards the endowment of a University, to be established within the limits of the District of'Columbia, under the auspices of the General Government, if that government should incline to extend a fostering hand towards it. LIBERTY HALL ACADEMY. 0 The hundred shares which I hold in the James River... | |
 | Self-culture - 1895 - 710 pages
...perpetuity, the fifty shares which I hold in the Potomac Company toward the endowment of a university, to_ be established within the limits of the District of...government, if that government should incline to extend a fostering hand toward it." The ideal of Washington has yet to be realized. One of Washington's economic... | |
 | Pennsylvania - 1895 - 622 pages
...either during his lifetime or by testamentary writing. Potomac Company " towards the endowment of a University to be established within the limits of...Columbia, under the auspices of the General Government." The national university, however, was never established. MONDAY, OCTOBER 81. At Mount Vernon : " October... | |
 | William Spohn Baker - 1897 - 384 pages
...Lee University of Lexington ; and the fifty shares of the Potomac Company "towards the endowment of a University to be established within the limits of...Columbia, under the auspices of the General Government." The national university, however, was never established. MONDAY, OCTOBER 31. Society of the Cincinnati... | |
 | Johns Hopkins University - Federal aid to higher education - 1898 - 124 pages
...perpetuity, the fifty shares which I hold in the Potomac Company, . . . 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." Here was the individual foundation of a National University. Here was the... | |
 | William Spohn Baker - 1898 - 430 pages
...Lee University of Lexington ; and the fifty shares of the Potomac Company "towards the endowment of a University to be established within the limits of...Columbia, under the auspices of the General Government." MONDAY, OCTOBER 31. At Mount Vernon : " October 31. — A Captain [Richard] Fullerton came here to... | |
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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,... 
