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Page 35 - His house was known to all the vagrant train ; He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain.
Page 11 - ... shall give bond in the sum of ten thousand dollars for the faithful performance of his duties...
Page 49 - An annual report shall be made regarding the progress of each college, recording any improvements and experiments made, with their cost and results and such other matters, including State industrial and economical statistics, as may be supposed useful...
Page 48 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the...
Page 10 - That all moneys derived from the sale of the lands aforesaid by the States to which the lands are apportioned, and from the sales of land scrip hereinbefore provided for, shall be invested in stocks of the United States, or of the States, or some other safe stocks, yielding not less than five per centum upon the par value of said stocks...
Page 164 - ... To the President and Members of the Missouri State Board of Horticulture: Gentlemen. — I beg leave to submit the following exhibit of the financial transactions of the Board of Horticulture in detail, for the period beginning December 31, 1909, and ending January 10, 1911. This shows there was no balance in the hands of the Treasurer at the beginning of the period, but that the sum of $207.43 remained in his keeping on January 10, 1911. This report also accounts for all warrants drawn upon...
Page 183 - Minutes of June and October meetings read and approved. Reports of departments read and referred to appropriate committees. Ordered, That the sum of $500.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be appropriated from Contingent Fund, for the purpose of repairing boiler in Workshop ; for repairing boiler and pumps at water works, and furnishing protection for the same ; and for repairs upon gas works.
Page 177 - Committee submitted the following report, which was adopted: To the Board of Trustees...
Page 37 - The basis of such selection shall be : scholarship in the regular course of study pursued ; proficiency in elocution and rhetoric, and the student's good conduct during his stay in College. 6. Students are detailed for labor by the President, and work as directed, an average of two hours and one-half per day, for five days in the week. COLLEGE SOCIETIES. The President or Faculty must in all cases be consulted by the students, before organizing any literary, scientific, or other society. The members...
Page 33 - College building and furniture, and such other incidental expenses as specially belong to them as a body. Students pay nothing for tuition or room rent, nor for the general expenses of the College. Damages to college property will be charged to the person damaging the same when known, but if its author is undiscovered it will be assessed upon the section where it occurs, or upon the whole school. Students supply themselves with pillows and other bedding, with towels, and with carpets if they desire...

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