The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 23Atlantic Monthly Company, 1869 - American essays |
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... American university appears , it will not be a copy of foreign institutions , or a hot - bed plant , but the slow and natural outgrowth of American social and political habits , and an expression of the average aims and ambitions of the ...
... American university appears , it will not be a copy of foreign institutions , or a hot - bed plant , but the slow and natural outgrowth of American social and political habits , and an expression of the average aims and ambitions of the ...
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novel American conditions . A man who has spent all his apprenticeship in building Dutch galliots is not likely to excel in building Baltimore clippers . An uneducated Welsh miner , perfectly familiar with every detail of his trade at ...
novel American conditions . A man who has spent all his apprenticeship in building Dutch galliots is not likely to excel in building Baltimore clippers . An uneducated Welsh miner , perfectly familiar with every detail of his trade at ...
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... American colleges have taken , and still take , their presidents from the clerical profession almost exclusively . This course has been perfectly natural for the colleges , because almost all of them have been founded expressly to ...
... American colleges have taken , and still take , their presidents from the clerical profession almost exclusively . This course has been perfectly natural for the colleges , because almost all of them have been founded expressly to ...
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Autobiography of a Shaker I II | 20 |
Hamlets of the Stage The I | 40 |
After Election J G Whittier | 50 |
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