Addresses and Papers by Andrew S. Draper ...: 1909-19101910 - Education - 192 pages |
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... things they were greater than the largest . In manufactures and trade upon the sea , in fighting power , and in schools of all grades and kinds , they were then the foremost nation in the world . They had just had a forty years ' war ...
... things they were greater than the largest . In manufactures and trade upon the sea , in fighting power , and in schools of all grades and kinds , they were then the foremost nation in the world . They had just had a forty years ' war ...
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... things which it is as well to have forgotten . Certainly there is no occasion to repeat it now ; and there would have been no reason to mention it but for the inconvenience and distress which it in- flicted upon this institution for a ...
... things which it is as well to have forgotten . Certainly there is no occasion to repeat it now ; and there would have been no reason to mention it but for the inconvenience and distress which it in- flicted upon this institution for a ...
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... things to veto . It has furnished the building with what it needs and supplied a good equipment for the teaching . It has put the walks and grounds in order , and for this a good German gardener is entitled to just as much credit as the ...
... things to veto . It has furnished the building with what it needs and supplied a good equipment for the teaching . It has put the walks and grounds in order , and for this a good German gardener is entitled to just as much credit as the ...
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... thing as a science of teaching . But they are in a decided minority . The weight of opinion in this country , and in all coun- tries where education is advanced , is against them . Therefore , the training of supervisory school officers ...
... thing as a science of teaching . But they are in a decided minority . The weight of opinion in this country , and in all coun- tries where education is advanced , is against them . Therefore , the training of supervisory school officers ...
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... things to others . This college is not to be content with the external forms : it is to get into the substance of things that have to do with education . If there is anything the matter with New York education , as I now and then ...
... things to others . This college is not to be content with the external forms : it is to get into the substance of things that have to do with education . If there is anything the matter with New York education , as I now and then ...
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Page 64 - Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just; And this be our motto :
Page 60 - Hats off! Along the street there comes A blare of bugles , a ruffle of drums; And loyal hearts are beating high: Hats off ! The flag is passing by!
Page 153 - Q. 3. If the Supreme Court of the United States shall decide that States cannot exclude slavery from their limits, are you in favor of acquiescing in, adopting, and following such decision as a rule of political action? Q. 4. Are you in favor of acquiring additional territory, in disregard of how such acquisition may affect the nation on the slavery question?
Page 73 - So it's home again, and home again, America for me! My heart is turning home again, and there I long to be, In the land of youth and freedom beyond the ocean bars, Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars.
Page 149 - ... influence, so great that it is enough for many men to profess to believe anything, when they once find out that Judge Douglas professes to believe it. Consider also the attitude he occupies at the head of a large party— a party which he claims has a majority of all the voters in the country.
Page 179 - All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Page 64 - Praise the power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto — "In God i* our trust;" And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave.
Page 153 - Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen of the United States, exclude slavery from its limits prior to the formation of a State constitution?
Page 152 - I want to know whether he stands pledged against the admission of a new State into the Union with such a constitution as the people of that State may see fit to make.
Page 152 - I desire him to answer whether he stands pledged to-day as he did in 1854, against the admission of any more slave States into the Union, even if the people want them?