Installation of Edmund Janes James, PH.D., LL.D., as President of the University |
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... Elected by the people ? ( c ) or ex officio , e . g . , governor , superintendent of public instruction , etc. ? Should the trustees assume entire control of the financial administration , or should they allow the faculties to have a ...
... Elected by the people ? ( c ) or ex officio , e . g . , governor , superintendent of public instruction , etc. ? Should the trustees assume entire control of the financial administration , or should they allow the faculties to have a ...
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... elected by the people as such , upon the same ticket as other officers of the State , together with the governor and the superintend- ent of public instruction , and another , who is elected to represent the agricultural people of the ...
... elected by the people as such , upon the same ticket as other officers of the State , together with the governor and the superintend- ent of public instruction , and another , who is elected to represent the agricultural people of the ...
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... elected to positions of definite rank , for definite periods , with definite understandings . The central issue that is to be determined at the close of the period is whether the university desires to retain the services of the occupant ...
... elected to positions of definite rank , for definite periods , with definite understandings . The central issue that is to be determined at the close of the period is whether the university desires to retain the services of the occupant ...
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... elected . The state superintendent of public instruction is now a member ; as is the president of the state board of agriculture , and the governor , making twelve in all . This change arose from the fact that at that time the people ...
... elected . The state superintendent of public instruction is now a member ; as is the president of the state board of agriculture , and the governor , making twelve in all . This change arose from the fact that at that time the people ...
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... elected by the people has duties to perform of a very different nature , and looks at things in a very different way from the way a university president or faculty would view them ; for , a professor in a department looks usually to the ...
... elected by the people has duties to perform of a very different nature , and looks at things in a very different way from the way a university president or faculty would view them ; for , a professor in a department looks usually to the ...
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Page 129 - Congress, according to the census of 1860, for the "endowment, support and maintenance of at least one college, where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, ... in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions of life.
Page 14 - WE praise thee, O God; we acknowledge thee to be the Lord. All the earth doth worship thee, the Father everlasting. To thee, all Angels cry aloud; the Heavens, and all the Powers therein. To thee, Cherubim and Seraphim continually do cry, Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Sabaoth; Heaven and earth are full of the Majesty of thy Glory.
Page 73 - By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash By any indirection...
Page 114 - ... at in history, he will be thought to have shared as little as any in the defects of the period, and most notably exhibited the virtues of the race. Generosity he has, such as is possible to those who...
Page 179 - With a view to obviating, as far as possible, recourse to force in the relations between States, the Signatory Powers agree to use their best efforts to insure the pacific settlement of international differences.
Page 180 - the determination of controversies between states by judges of their own choice upon the basis of respect for law," and declares that the signatory powers recognize arbitration as the most efficacious and most equitable method of deciding questions regarding the interpretation or application of international treaties.
Page 180 - ... of recognized competence in questions of international law, enjoying the highest moral consideration, and prepared to accept the functions of arbitrator.
Page 114 - Generosity he has, such as is possible to those who practise an art, never to those who drive a trade; discretion, tested by a hundred secrets; tact, tried in a thousand embarrassments; and what are more important, Heraclean cheerfulness and courage. So it is that he brings air and cheer into the sickroom, and often enough, though not so often as he wishes, brings healing.
Page 214 - ... hundred thousand dollars in Champaign County bonds, due and payable in ten years, and bearing interest at the rate of ten per cent per annum, and two thousand dollars in fruit, shade, and ornamental trees and shrubbery, to be selected from the nursery of ML Dunlap, and furnished at the lowest catalogue rates, making an estimated valuation of four hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($450,000).
Page 181 - The vital distinction between these gatherings and the peace conference at the Hague is that all of the former were held at the end of a period of warfare, and their first important object was to restore peace between actual belligerents; whereas the peace conference was the first diplomatic gathering called to discuss guarantees of peace without reference to any particular war — past, present, or prospective.