The Educational Institutions of the United States, Their Character and OrganizationJ. Chapman, 1853 - 415 páginas |
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Página 384 - Institution, to be composed of the Vice-President, the Chief Justice of the United States, and three members of the Senate and three members of the House of Representatives...
Página 313 - ... or directed to do and transact. That the said university shall be and hereby is incorporated, and shall be known by the name of The regents of the university of the State of New York, and by that name shall have perpetual succession and power to sue and be sued, to hold property real and personal, to the amount of the annual income of forty thousand bushels of wheat, to buy and...
Página 106 - From what has already been said, the reader will be able to form an idea of the general...
Página 215 - In the high school in Hartford (Connecticut) a system has been introduced of letting the pupils themselves form a tribunal for the judgment of all offences relative to discipline. Every morning after prayers, the annotations made by the monitor on the preceding day, and delivered in to the master, are submitted to the votes of the pupils. On these occasions each pupil is at liberty to move for such alterations on various points as he may deem desirable, and these motions are then likewise discussed...
Página 376 - ... scientific culture, as it is understood in modern times, is at all promoted by college education in America. Idolatry of the classical languages is as common in the new world as in the old; and the only difference is, that the antiquated pedantry, which generally goes hand in hand with this idolatry, appears even more preposterous in America, in the midst of the fresh life of a new community. In Europe it is in unison with the many other antiquated forms and institutions which are still upheld;...
Página v - ... country of our day." Dr. Siljestrom, an eminent Swedish authority, in an elaborate work on our public instruction, says: " In the United States, as elsewhere, the observer will detect many of the imperfections that characterize all human institutions; but there is one subject in that country which must afford unmixed pleasure to the heart of the philanthropist and the mind of the thinker, and this is the noble and successful efforts made in the cause of popular education.
Página 101 - Fund, at 5 per cent. $19,116, leaving $3,452 to be paid from the Treasury of the State. This sum is apportioned annually in the month of May, among the several towns, in proportion to the number of children under the age of fifteen years, according to the census taken under the authority of the United States, next preceding the time of making such apportionment. This apportionment in 1846 will amount to sixty-five cents and two mills to each person under fifteen years, or twenty-three cents and nine...
Página 82 - Catholic school districts in the province where schools were in operation. With regard to local assessments for school purposes, it was provided that the ratepayers of a school district should pay their respective assessments to the schools of their respective denominations...
Página 263 - He is not asked where a road shall be laid, or how a bridge shall be built, although in the one case he has to perform the labor, and in the other to supply the materials. His sovereign is born to him. The laws are made for him. In war, his part is not to declare it or to end it, but to fight and be shot in it, and to pay for it.
Página 343 - ... occupied in attending the lectures, under the direction of some regular practitioner. In 1846, the number of under-graduates was 279, theological students 32, law students 145, medical students 157 ; resident graduates, 15 ; — total, 628. Commencement is on the last Wednesday in August. The academical year is divided into two terms, of twenty weeks each, and two vacations. The first vacation is from the end of the first term, six weeks ; the second, from the end of the second term, to Friday...