Life and Letters of William Barton Rogers, Volume 2Houghton Mifflin, 1896 |
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Page 60 - Technology, for the purpose of instituting and maintaining a society of arts, a museum of arts, and a school of industrial science, and aiding generally, by suitable means, the advancement, development and practical application of science in connection with arts, agriculture, manufactures and commerce...
Page 151 - That the National Academy of Sciences shall consist of not more than fifty ordinary members, and the said corporation hereby constituted shall have power to make its own organization, including its constitution, by-laws, and rules and regulations ; to fill all vacancies created by death, resignation or otherwise ; to provide for the election of foreign and domestic members, the division into classes and all other matters needful or usual in such Institution, and to report the same to Congress.
Page 418 - ... generally among the body of the people, being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in the various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty...
Page 419 - To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General Court assembled.
Page 152 - States as may be designated, and the Academy shall, whenever called upon by any department of the Government, investigate, examine, experiment, and report upon any subject of science or art, the actual expense of such investigations, examinations, experiments, and reports to be paid from appropriations which may be made for the purpose, but the Academy shall receive no compensation whatever for any services to the Government of the United States.
Page 357 - Sciences is hereby required at their next meeting to take into consideration the methods and expenses of conducting all surveys of a scientific character under the War or Interior Department, and the surveys of the Land Office, and to report to Congress as soon thereafter as may be practicable a plan for surveying and mapping the territories of the United States on such general system as will, in their judgment, secure the best results at the least possible cost...
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Page 398 - ... could be found in the hall. All the aisles would be filled, and even the windows crowded from the outside with eager listeners. In one instance I remember the crowd had assembled long before the hour named for the lecture, and so filled the hall that the professor could only gain admittance through a side entrance leading from the rear of the hall through the apparatus room.
Page 388 - ... those well-remembered, most thrilling tones. Then, of a sudden, there was silence in the midst of speech ; that stately figure suddenly drooped, the fire died out of that eye ever so quick to kindle at noble thoughts, and, before one of his attentive listeners had time to suspect the cause, he fell to the platform instantly dead.
Page 159 - ... sound practical and popular education. " Permit me to say that it has given me especial gratification to find from conversation with my friends, Mr. Tobey and Professor Wyman, that the views on elementary and practical education and the methods of teaching, which I have long entertained and endeavored to put in practice, are, as far as I can see, entirely coincident with your own. " To teach exactly and thoroughly the fundamental principles of positive science, with their leading applications...