Remarks at a Hearing Before the Joint Committee of Education, 1 February, 1848: In Aid of the Memorial of the Colleges |
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Page 24 - ... it shall be the duty of legislatures and magistrates in all future periods of this commonwealth, to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them, especially the University at Cambridge, public schools and grammar schools in the towns...
Page 24 - The provision, that it shall be the duty of legislatures and magistrates to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences, especially the university at Cambridge, public schools, and grammar schools, in the towns, is precisely of this character.
Page 3 - Representatives in General Court assembled. The Memorial of the President and Fellows of Harvard College in Cambridge humbly sheweth That whereas the great and Honorable General Court, at their session Feb.