Proceedings of the Trustees ... from Their Original Organization on the 8th February, 1867, Volume 5etc., 1900 - Education |
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Agent Alabama annual appointed appropriation Arkansas attendance average better Bishop WHIPPLE cent Chairman Claflin University colored Normal colored teachers Committee condition conductors course of study duties educa efficient enrolment established EVARTS faculty favor Florida George Peabody Georgia grade graduates Hampton held honor hundred improvement increased Insti instruction instructors intelligence interest J. L. M. CURRY labor large number Legislature liberal Louisiana Massachusetts meeting ment Milledgeville Mississippi Model School Nashville negro Normal and Industrial Normal School officers organized PAYNE Peabody Board Peabody Education Fund Peabody Fund Peabody Institutes Peabody Normal College Peabody's practical President profes professional progress public education public schools pupils race Sam Houston says scholarship school system session South Carolina Southern spirit successful summer schools Superintendent Tennessee Texas thousand dollars tion Trustees University University of Nashville Voted weeks West Virginia white teachers Winthrop Normal
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Page 148 - The legislature shall provide, as soon as practicable, for the establishment of a thorough and efficient system of free schools. They shall provide for the support of such schools by appropriating thereto the interest of the invested...
Page 242 - A system of general instruction which shall reach every description of our citizens from the richest to the poorest, as it was the earliest, so will it be the latest of all the public concerns in which I shall permit myself to take an interest.
Page 294 - The object of this institution shall be (1) to give young women such education as shall fit them for teaching; (2) to give instruction to young women in drawing, telegraphy, typewriting, stenography, and such other industrial arts as may be suitable to their sex and conducive to their support and usefulness.
Page 353 - ... for the promotion and encouragement of intellectual, moral, or industrial education among the young of the more destitute portions of the Southern and Southwestern States of our Union; my purpose being that the benefits intended shall be distributed among the entire population, without other distinction than their needs and the opportunities of usefulness to them.
Page 133 - ... opportunity of thanking, with all my heart, the people of the South themselves for the cordial spirit with which they have received the Trust, and for the energetic efforts which they have made in co-operation with yourselves and Dr. Sears, for carrying out the plans which have been proposed and matured for the diffusion of the blessings of education in their respective States.
Page 350 - Put the shoes from off your feet, for the place whereon you stand is holy ground.
Page 169 - Winthrop, the distinguished and valued friend to whom I am so much indebted for cordial sympathy, careful consideration, and wise counsel in this matter) will remember that I consulted him immediately upon my arrival in May last. I refer to the educational needs of those portions of our beloved and common country which have suffered from the destructive ravages, and the not less disastrous consequences, of civil war.
Page 352 - ... is clearer than the absolute necessity of suffrage for all colored persons in the disorganized States. It will not be enough if you give it to those who read and write; you will not, in this way, acquire the voting force which you need there for the protection of unionists, whether white or black. You will not secure the new allies who are essential to the national cause.
Page 242 - It is an axiom in my mind that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that, too, of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the state to effect, and on a general plan.
Page 242 - Were it necessary to give up either the Primaries or the University, I would rather abandon the last, because it is safer to have a whole people respectably enlightened than a few in a high state of science and the many in ignorance.