Indiana University, 1820-1904: Historical Sketch, Development of the Course of Instruction, BibliographyThe University, 1904 - 348 pages |
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Alumni list Analytical Chemistry April Arkansas Arts Asso August author with C. H. Biological birds Bloomington Board of Trustees Botany Brazil Bull C. H. Eigenmann C. H. Gilbert catalogue Chicago collection of fishes College Composition course of instruction D. S. Jordan David Starr Jordan Department Description Eigenmann elective English Faculty fisheries fishes collected genus Geol Geology Geometry German graduate Greek High Schools Hist Indiana Acad Indiana Sch Indiana University Inland Educator Instructor Joint author Jour July June Laboratory Lake Latin Lectures List of fishes major subject March Mathematics Mazatlan North American Notes Nutt Ph.D Philosophy Physiology plates Preparatory President Professor Psych Review Science Second Term Seminary Sept species of fishes Surv Third Term tion U. S. Fish Comm U. S. Nat United versity VIII Wylie York Zoology
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Page 194 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page ii - It shall be the duty of the General assembly, as soon as circumstances will permit, to provide, by law, for a general system of education, ascending in a regular gradation, from township schools to a state university, wherein tuition shall be gratis, and equally open to all.
Page 194 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Page 32 - It will give birth to a living teaching, which in course of time will take the shape of a selfperpetuating tradition, or a genius loci, as it is sometimes called ; which haunts the home where it has been born, and which imbues and forms, more or less, and one by one, every individual who is successively brought under its shadow.
Page 194 - ... the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragons' teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.
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Page xvi - In an ideal University, as I conceive it, a man should be able to obtain instruction in all forms of knowledge, and discipline in the use of all the methods by which knowledge is obtained. In such a University, the force of living example should fire the student with a noble ambition to emulate the learning of learned men, and to follow in the footsteps of the explorers of new fields of knowledge. And the very air he breathes should be charged...
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Page 1 - That one entire township, which shall be designated by the president of the United States, in addition to the one heretofore reserved for that purpose, shall be reserved for the use of a seminary of learning, and vested in the legislature of the said state, to be appropriated solely to the use of such seminary by the said legislature.
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