Installation of Edmund Janes James, PH.D., LL.D., as President of the University |
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... knowledge . The responsible authorities in the management of a university are the trustees , the president , and the faculty . Legal enactments settle in some measure the exact functions of each , but common knowledge of the kinds of ...
... knowledge . The responsible authorities in the management of a university are the trustees , the president , and the faculty . Legal enactments settle in some measure the exact functions of each , but common knowledge of the kinds of ...
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... knowledge , it must be by men who have the knowledge or who will respect the opinions of others who have it . Trustees , as the representatives of the founders or donors , or of the state , are practically , if not altogether , unknown ...
... knowledge , it must be by men who have the knowledge or who will respect the opinions of others who have it . Trustees , as the representatives of the founders or donors , or of the state , are practically , if not altogether , unknown ...
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... knowledge and experience , their entire freedom , and their combined wisdom and forecfulness can de- vise . The business of university faculties is teaching . It is not legisla- tion and it is not administration , certainly not beyond ...
... knowledge and experience , their entire freedom , and their combined wisdom and forecfulness can de- vise . The business of university faculties is teaching . It is not legisla- tion and it is not administration , certainly not beyond ...
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... knowledge , some very serious claims must be abandoned and some attitudes completely changed . No board ever got rid of a teacher or an investigator - no matter how weak or absurd - except for immorality known to the board and likely to ...
... knowledge , some very serious claims must be abandoned and some attitudes completely changed . No board ever got rid of a teacher or an investigator - no matter how weak or absurd - except for immorality known to the board and likely to ...
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... knowledge . It is not necessary that all universities cover the same lines of work or have the same standards . It is not imperative that all have the same courses or courses of the same length . It is necessary that all serve and ...
... knowledge . It is not necessary that all universities cover the same lines of work or have the same standards . It is not imperative that all have the same courses or courses of the same length . It is necessary that all serve and ...
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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.