Annual Report of the American College and Education Society

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Página 43 - If we work upon marble, it will perish ; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds, if we imbue them with principles, with the just fear of God and love of our fellow-men, we engrave on those tablets something which will brighten to all eternity.
Página 20 - After God had carried us safe to New England, and wee had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, rear'd convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civill government : One of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity ; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.
Página 10 - And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
Página 20 - District I" comprises the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, and the District of Columbia; (c) "Districts II-IV" means all of the States of the United States except those States within District I and District V; (d) "Districts I-IV...
Página 20 - ... it pleased God to stir up the heart of one Mr. Harvard (a godly Gentleman and a lover of Learning, there living amongst us) to give the one...
Página 18 - For as water, whether it be the dew of heaven or the springs of the earth, doth scatter and leese itself in the ground, except it be collected into some receptacle, where it "may by union comfort and sustain itself; and for that cause the industry of man hath...
Página 21 - And by the side of the Colledge a faire Grammar Schoole, for the training up of young schollars, and fitting of them for Academical learning, that still as they are judged ripe, they may be received into the Colledge of this schoole : Master Corlet is the Mr. who hath very well approved himself for his abilities, dexterity, and painfulnesse in teaching and education of the youths under him.
Página 18 - ... spring-heads, conduits, cisterns and pools ; which men have accustomed likewise to beautify and adorn with accomplishments of magnificence and state as well as of use and necessity ; so knowledge whether it descend from divine inspiration or spring from human sense, would soon perish and vanish to oblivion if it were not preserved in books2, traditions, conferences and 1 Advancement of Learning, pp. 78 — 83. (Aldis Wright's Edition.) places appointed as universities, colleges and schools for...
Página 40 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court Assembled, and by authority of the same, as follows : SECTION I. The American Education Society...
Página 40 - Its purpose is also to make the expense of pursuing a course of liberal study as low as is consistent with a high degree of excellence in its results, and thus to keep a liberal education within the reach of young men and women of limited means. It is likewise the earnest purpose...

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