Proceedings of the Trustees ... from Their Original Organization on the 8th February, 1867, Volume 4etc., 1893 - Education |
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... representatives , and more than representatives of royalty , are not absent from the bier . ― " Nothing is wanted to give emphasis to thy examples . Nothing is wanting to fill up the measure of thy fame . " And so we bid thee farewell ...
... representatives , and more than representatives of royalty , are not absent from the bier . ― " Nothing is wanted to give emphasis to thy examples . Nothing is wanting to fill up the measure of thy fame . " And so we bid thee farewell ...
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... representatives of the South , among them Mr. Peabody's own personal friend , our own late lamented Gov- ernor William Aiken , who , looking back over a life of official promi- nence , said that he regarded the position of one of the ...
... representatives of the South , among them Mr. Peabody's own personal friend , our own late lamented Gov- ernor William Aiken , who , looking back over a life of official promi- nence , said that he regarded the position of one of the ...
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... representatives of three successive generations whose in- terest in the cause of education and special fitness for the ... representative , the portrait of Mr. Edwin H. Ewing , not long since its honored president . Governor Porter , now ...
... representatives of three successive generations whose in- terest in the cause of education and special fitness for the ... representative , the portrait of Mr. Edwin H. Ewing , not long since its honored president . Governor Porter , now ...
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... representative of the Peabody Normal College in Nashville , our great Normal College , to use his own affectionate language . On the walls of his elegant dining - room , I saw in stately procession the portraits of his ancestors ...
... representative of the Peabody Normal College in Nashville , our great Normal College , to use his own affectionate language . On the walls of his elegant dining - room , I saw in stately procession the portraits of his ancestors ...
Page 149
... representative institutions , is proving to be the solvent of language and condition , has a training and unifying influence , and is merging our population into one substantial body politic , making our country what has not ...
... representative institutions , is proving to be the solvent of language and condition , has a training and unifying influence , and is merging our population into one substantial body politic , making our country what has not ...
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Page 69 - Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold, and laid them down at the apostles...
Page 142 - ... schools and advance the means of education, on the plain reason that religion, morality, and knowledge are necessary to good government, and to the happiness of mankind.
Page 69 - Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high-minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy ; that they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate, laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
Page 143 - ... riches of the Commonwealth Are free, strong minds, and hearts of health ; And more to her than gold or grain, The cunning hand and cultured brain. For well she keeps her ancient stock, The stubborn strength of Pilgrim Rock ; And still maintains, with milder laws, And clearer light, the Good Old Cause ! Nor heeds the sceptic's puny hands, While near her school the church-spire stands ; Nor fears the blinded bigot's rule, While near her church-spire stands the school.
Page 262 - Ideas are often poor ghosts ; our sun-filled eyes cannot discern them ; they pass athwart us in thin vapour, and cannot make themselves felt. But sometimes they are made flesh ; they breathe upon us with warm breath, they touch us with soft responsive hands, they look at us with sad sincere eyes, and speak to us in appealing tones ; they are clothed in a living human soul, with all its conflicts, its faith, and its love. Then their presence is a power, then they shake us like a passion, and we are...
Page 175 - Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freemen with votes in their hands are left without education.
Page 251 - The General Assembly, at its first session under this Constitution, shall provide by taxation and otherwise for a general and uniform system of public schools, wherein tuition shall be free of charge to all the children of the State between the ages of six and twenty-one years.
Page 68 - Behold, thou hast made my days as it were a span long : and mine age is even as nothing in respect of thee; and verily EVERY MAN LIVING IS ALTOGETHER VANITY. 7 For man walketh in a vain shadow, and disquieteth himself in vain : he heapeth up riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them.
Page 197 - It would seem as if the rulers of our time sought only to use men in order to make things great; I wish that they would try a little more to make great men; that they would set less value on the work, and more upon the workman; that they would never forget that a nation cannot long remain strong when every man belonging to it is individually weak...
Page 348 - No progress at all can be made towards obtaining a skilled democracy unless the democracy are willing that the work which requires skill should be done by those who possess it...