 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1886 - 376 σελίδες
...councils. In his last will he bequeathed fifty shares in the Potomac Company " toward the endowment of a university to be established within the limits of the District of Columbia." The plan of granting a certain portion of the public lands for educational purposes had its beginning... | |
 | 1897 - 560 σελίδες
...aforesaid acts of the legislature of Virginia) toward the endowment of a university to be established in the District of Columbia under the auspices of the...Government should incline to extend a fostering hand toward it; and until such a seminary is established and the funds arising on these shares shall be... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - 1887 - 828 σελίδες
...statues of marble. The national endowment or permanent support of the higher political education " within the limits of the District of Columbia, under the auspices of the General Government," would realize the highest ideal of the Father of hie Country. This ideal was Washington's last will... | |
 | 1887 - 620 σελίδες
...ur scatues of marble. The national endowment or permanent support of the higher political education "within the limits of the District of Columbia, under the auspices of the General Government," would realize the highest ideal of the Father of his country. This ideal was Washington's last will... | |
 | 1887 - 524 σελίδες
...or statues of marble. The national endowment or permanent support of the higher political education 'within the limits of the District of Columbia, under the auspices of the General Government,' would realize the highest ideal of the Father of his Country. This idt-al was Washington's last will... | |
 | Herbert Baxter Adams - 1888 - 732 σελίδες
...or statues of marble. The national endowment or permanent support of the higher political education "within the limits of the District of Columbia, under the auspices of the General Government," would realize the highest ideal of the Father of his country. This ideal was Washington's last will... | |
 | 1889 - 758 σελίδες
...document Washington bequeathed fifty shares of stock held in the Potomac Company* " toward the endowment of a university to be established within the limits...Government should incline to extend a fostering hand toward it."3 But as the Government took no energetic action in the matter nothing ever came of the... | |
 | State Historical Society of Wisconsin - 1889 - 674 σελίδες
...bequeath, in perpetuity, the h'fty shares which I hold in the Potomac company, * * * towards the endowment of a university, to be established within the limits...government, if that government should incline to extend a favoring hand towards it." Washington's dream of a great university, rising grandly upon the Maryland... | |
 | American Association of School Administrators - 1889 - 314 σελίδες
...fifty shares which I hold in the Potomac Company, * * • towards the endowment of a university, to bo established within the limits of the District of Columbia,...Government, if that Government should incline to extend a favoring hand towards it. Here was the individual foundation of a National University. Here was the... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - 1889 - 746 σελίδες
...university. Washington, in his last will and testament, made a liberal bequest "towards the endowment of a university, to be established within the limits...Columbia, under the auspices of the general government," and he said " that the accomplishment of the object will be obtained, I have not the smallest doubt,... | |
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Item I give and bequeath in perpetuity the fifty shares which I hold in the Potomac Company (under the aforesaid Acts of the Legislature of Virginia) towards the endowment of a UNIVERSITY to be established within the limits of the District of Columbia,... 
