A Collection of Facts: History of the Rise, Difficulties & Suspension of Antioch College. Containing Letters and Statements from Professors Horace Mann, W. H. Doherty, T. Holmes...

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J. Geary & son, 1858 - 246 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 80 - Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people...
Pàgina 27 - Examiners, and shall elect from its own number, a president and a secretary, who shall also act as treasurer, both of whom shall hold their offices for one year or until their successors are chosen.
Pàgina 4 - This Constitution may be altered or amended by a vote of two-thirds of the members present at...
Pàgina 3 - Institute, and, by that name, to remain in perpetual succession, with full power to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded, to acquire, hold, and convey property, real...
Pàgina 110 - If you want truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it ; but if you want a lie to go round the world, it will fly : it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it It is well said in the old Proverb, " A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on.
Pàgina 3 - ... to have and use a common seal, and to alter and renew the same at pleasure, and...
Pàgina 136 - This personal vituperation does not annoy me, but I lament to see a public man of Massachusetts so crude and confused in his legal apprehensions, and so little acquainted with the Constitution of his country, as these opinions evince Mr. Mann to be. His citation of a supposed case, as in point, if it have any analogy to the matter, would prove, that, if Mr. Mann's horse stray into his neighbor's field, he cannot lead him back without a previous trial by jury to ascertain the right. Truly, if what...
Pàgina 13 - ... public school system of his State and had been offered the presidency of a new college in the West, looked at the small group he had assembled with penetrating eyes behind gold-bowed spectacles, and raised his resonant voice to outline a nineteenth-century dream. The dream had been named Antioch College in honor of the Syrian city where "the disciples were first called Christians.
Pàgina 5 - ... there is an interest and a demand in a subject of this kind. I think you have indicated in your testimony this is borne out, and refutes articles that all of us have read in trade magazines and other magazines that people are not interested.
Pàgina 136 - Cease to transcribe," it adds, " upon the statute-book what our wisest and best men believed to be the will of God, in regard to our worldly affairs, and the passions which we think appropriate to devils will soon take possession of society.

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