Catalogue of the Trustees, Officers, and Students, of the University ... and of the Grammar and Charity Schools ...

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The University., 1904

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Σελίδα 127 - A training suitable for those who intend to engage in business or to undertake the management of property.
Σελίδα 13 - ... as also make and subscribe, and cause them to make and subscribe, the Declaration mentioned in an Act of Parliament made in the twenty-fifth year of the reign of King Charles the Second, intituled, " An Act for preventing dangers which may happen from Popish Recusants...
Σελίδα 443 - The LIBRARY is one of the original Departments of the University possessing among its treasures works presented to the Academy of Philadelphia in 1749; others purchased by a committee, of which Benjamin Franklin was Chairman, in 1750; and still others given by the Rev. William Smith DD. first Provost of the College and Academy of Philadelphia; by Louis XVI.; and by other early friends and patrons. It now contains 234,527 catalogued volumes and upwards of 50,000 unbound pamphlets.
Σελίδα 63 - Fractions, including complex fractions, ratio and proportion. Linear equations, both numerical and literal, containing one or more unknown quantities. Problems depending on linear equations. Radicals, including the extraction of the square root of polynomials and of numbers. Exponents, including the fractional and negative.
Σελίδα 13 - Lawrence, and others, as before recited, and such others as shall be from time to time chosen, nominated or elected in their place and stead, shall be one community, corporation and body politic, to have continuance forever, by the name of The Trustees of the Academy and Charitable School in the Province of Pennsylvania...
Σελίδα 315 - Perhaps this medical institution, the first of its kind in America, though small in its beginning, may receive a constant increase of strength, and annually exert new vigor. It may collect a number of young persons, of more than ordinary abilities, and so improve their knowledge as to spread its reputation to distant parts. By sending these abroad duly qualified, or by exciting an...
Σελίδα 13 - And whereas the said trustees have, represented, That since our granting our said recited charter, the academy therein mentioned, by the blessing of Almighty God, is greatly improved, being now well provided with masters, not only in the learned languages, but also in the liberal arts and sciences, and that one class of hopeful students has now attained to that station in learning and science, by which, in all well constituted seminaries, youth are entitled to their first degrec.
Σελίδα 12 - Proposals relating to the Education of Youth in Pensilvania," twenty-four publicspirited citizens of Philadelphia associated themselves for the purpose of establishing an Academy, and "laying a Foundation for Posterity to erect a Seminary of Learning more extensive and suitable to their future Circumstances.
Σελίδα 62 - The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers in The Spectator ; Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield ; Coleridge's The Ancient Mariner; Scott's Ivanhoe; Carlyle's Essay on Burns; Tennyson's The Princess; Lowell's The Vision of Sir Lavnfal; George Eliot's Silas Marner.
Σελίδα 16 - They further declare that they will keep this plan closely in their view, and use their utmost endeavours that the same be not narrowed, nor the members of the Church of England, or those dissenting from them (in any future election to the principal offices mentioned in the aforesaid letter) be put on any worse footing in this seminary than they were at the time of obtaining the royal brief. They subscribe this with their names, and ordain that the same be read and subscribed by every new trustee...

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