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Page 3 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise; which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill and dale and plain...
Page 14 - The object of the University shall be to provide the inhabitants of the state with the means of acquiring a thorough knowledge of the various branches of literature, science and the arts.
Page 11 - The legislature shall, within five years from the adoption of this constitution, provide for and establish a system of primary schools, whereby a school shall be kept without charge for tuition* at least three months in each year, in every school district in the State ; and all instruction in said schools shall be conducted in the English language.
Page 28 - Religion — morality established on the positive truths of Christianity ; 2. The German tongue, and in the Polish provinces, the vernacular language; 3. The elements of geometry and general principles of drawing; 4. Calculation and applied arithmetic; 5. The elements of physics, of general history, and of the history of Prussia; 6. Singing; 7. Writing; 8. Gymnastic exercises ; 9. The more simple manual labors, and some instruction in the relative country occupations.
Page 11 - A school shall be maintained in each school district, at least three months in each year. Any school district neglecting to maintain such school, shall be deprived for the ensuing year of its proportion of the income of the primary school fund, and of all funds arising from taxes for the support of schools, Sec.
Page 11 - In contemplating the past and dwelling upon the future, we are forcibly reminded that if our government is to outlive the term heretofore allotted to republics, it is to be accomplished by the diffusion of knowledge amongst the people; and that we must depend upon the power of a liberal and enlightened public " as the palladium of a free government, the 8Dgis of our federal existence.
Page 40 - To this end, we propose to establish a Scientific course parallel to the classical course. In this scientific course a more extended study of the Mathematics will be substituted for the Greek and Latin. There will be comprised in it, besides other branches, Civil Engineering, Astronomy with the use of an Observatory, and the application of Chemistry and other Sciences to Agriculture and the industrial arts, generally.
Page 12 - ... of your primary schools. In the organization of your common schools, which are the foundation upon which your whole system of education must be based, the first measure essential to their success and good government, is the appointment of teachers of the highest character, both moral and intellectual.
Page 25 - ... intended to be embraced in this department are such in general as are not included under theology, law or medicine ; or more particularly, mathematical science, physical science and its application to the arts, metaphysics, philology, literature and history. The instructions in the department are intended for graduates of this and other colleges, and for such other young men as are desirous of pursuing special branches of study ; but it is necessary for all students in philosophy and mathematical...
Page 15 - ... on the work of education on them. The further duties of the Regents are only to watch and defend, and not to interfere with the growth of what they have planted. A Board of experienced Regents can manage the funds and machinery of a University better than any Legislature: and the faculty can manage the business of education — the interior of a college, better than any Regents.