Contributions to American Educational History, Volumen11

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Herbert Baxter Adams
U.S. Government Printing Office, 1891

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Página 102 - The Legislature shall encourage the promotion of intellectual, scientific and agricultural improvement; and shall, as soon as practicable, provide for the establishment of an Agricultural School.
Página 31 - State for the use of a University; and the funds accruing from the rents or sale of such lands, or from any other source, for the purpose aforesaid, shall be and remain a permanent fund...
Página 41 - The board of regents shall have the general supervision of the University, and the direction and control of all expenditures from the University interest fund.
Página 32 - ... to regulate the course of instruction, and prescribe, under the advice of the professorships, the books and authorities to be used in the several departments, and also to confer such degrees and grant such diplomas as are usually conferred and granted by other universities.
Página 31 - The object of the University shall be to provide the inhabitants of the state with the means of acquiring a thorough knowledge of the various branches of literature, science and the arts.
Página 15 - June next, all that part of the Indiana Territory which lies north of a line drawn east from the southerly bend, or extreme, of Lake Michigan, until it shall intersect Lake Erie, and east of a line drawn from the said southerly bend through the middle of said lake to its northern extremity, and thence due north to the northern boundary of the United States, shall, for the purpose of temporary government, constitute a separate Territory, and be called Michigan.
Página 121 - Jonathan Videto, Joseph Bailey, and William Smith, of Spring Arbor. At the Michigan yearly meeting mentioned above a resolution, substantially as follows, was passed : Resolved, That a denominational school be established within the Territorial limits of the yearly meeting; that a committee of three be appointed to draft a constitution and by-laws ; and that a convention be called at the village of Jackson to consider and adopt such constitution and by-laws and to take such other measures as shall...
Página 26 - The honorarium for a course of lectures shall not exceed fifteen dollars, for classical instruction ten dollars a quarter, for ordinary instruction six dollars a quarter. If the judges of the court of any county, or a majority of them, shall certify that the parent, or guardian, of any person has not adequate means to defray the expense of the suitable instruction, and that the same ought to be a public charge, the honorarium shall be paid from the treasury of Michigan.
Página 12 - Frenchmen of the Territory of Michigan ! You ought to begin immediately to give an education to your children. In a little while there will be in this Territory as many Yankees as French, and if you do not have your children educated the situations will all be given to the Yankees.
Página 67 - Two facts are to be noted among the results: first, the standard of preparation in the High Schools, if affected at all, has been elevated rather than lowered; second, the State system of education has become a reality. It is obvious that there can be no system, properly so called, without an actual and living connection and communication among its members. By calling for the visiting or examining committees of the Faculty, the High Schools have been brought into that vital connection with the University...

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