Relations of the National Government to Higher Education and Research ...: The Carnegie Institution of Washington, D.C.U.S. Government Printing Office, 1902 - 30 pages |
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Page 1068 - personally known and known to me to be the persons whose names are subscribed to the foregoing instrument of writing, and severally and personally acknowledged the same to be their act and deed for the uses and purposes therein set forth. Given under my hand and official seal the day and year above written. [SEAL.]
Page 1052 - 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 * * * to encourage private societies and public institutions, rewards and immunities for the promotion of agriculture, arts, sciences, commerce, trades, manufactures, and
Page 1073 - first message to Congress, January 8, 1790: There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage than the promotion of science and literature. * * * Whether this desirable object will be best promoted by affording aids to seminaries of learning already established, by the institution of a national university, or by any other expedients, will be
Page 1075 - an incorporation at Mr. Carnegie's request, and subsequently, on his nomination. selected twenty-seven persons to be the trustees, namely: The President of the United States, the President of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution,
Page 1063 - of problems which arise in connection with standards: the determination of physical constants and the properties of materials, when such data are of great importance to scientific or manufacturing interests and are not to be obtained of sufficient accuracy elsewhere. Law and
Page 1074 - to which the youths of fortune and talents from all parts thereof might be sent for the completion of their education, in all the branches of polite literature, in arts and sciences, in acquiring knowledge in the principles of politics and good government, and as a matter of
Page 1067 - and, in general, to do and perform all things necessary to promote the objects of said institution; fourth, that the affairs, funds, and property of the corporation shall be in general charge of a board of trustees, the number of whose members for the first year shall be twenty-seven
Page 1055 - institutions hereafter established shall be afforded to scientific investigators and to duly qualified individual students and graduates of institutions of learning in the several States and Territories, as well as in the District of Columbia, under such rules and • restrictions as the heads of the Departments and Bureaus mentioned may prescribe.
Page 1074 - importance, in my judgment, by associating with each other, and forming friendships in juvenile years, be enabled to free themselves in a proper degree from those local prejudices and habitual jealousies which have just been mentioned, and which, when carried to excess, are never-failing sources of disquietude to the public mind, and pregnant of mischievous consequences to this country.
Page 1060 - Charles D. Walcott, and Carroll D. Wright, to me personally known and known to me to be the persons whose names are subscribed to the foregoing instrument of writing, and severally and personally acknowledged the same to be their act and deed for the uses and purposes therein set forth. Given under my hand and official seal the day and year above written. [SEAL.]