Biennial Report of the Board of Regents to the Governor, Volumes 18-19

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1907
 

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Page 26 - No money shall be drawn from the treasury, except in pursuance of a specific appropriation, made by law ; and no appropriation shall be made for a longer period than two years.
Page 3 - Series) as entomologist of the Experiment Station of the University of Minnesota, for the year ending December 31, 1902.
Page 9 - ... and cannot return to his old ways. Soon there is a body of such men ; a township, a county and finally a State is transformed. The power which transformed the humble fishermen of Galilee into mighty apostles of truth is ever present and can be used as effectively to-day, in any good cause, as when the Son of God turned His footsteps from Judea's capital and spoke to the way-side children of poverty.
Page 9 - NC, the University of North Carolina, the University of West Virginia and the University of Wisconsin, and in 1909 Yale, Boston and George Washington Universities will require the same.
Page 53 - ... they talk of gold ; they dream of gold. I believe, if they could, they would eat and drink gold. But, demoralising as this is to a vast number of those who are in the vortex of the daily doings of this remarkable place, the startling fact is only too apparent to anyone who visits Johannesburg. It is to be hoped that the day will come when the legitimate pursuit of wealth will be followed in a less excitable and a more calm and decorous manner than at present regretably prevails. I spent a pleasant,...
Page 11 - The requirement in professional study is graduation from a school of optometry conducted as a department of a university registered by the Board of Regents with either the degree of bachelor of arts or that of bachelor of science and a certificate of graduation in optometry.
Page 71 - Gentlemen: I have the honor to submit the following report of work done in the Department for the fiscal year ended December 31st, 1916.
Page 9 - The environment of men must be penetrated and modified or little permanent change can be made in them. The environment of the farmer is limited generally to a few miles. The demonstration must be carried to this limited area and show how simple and easy it is to restore the virgin fertility of the soil, to multiply the product of the land per acre, to increase the number of acres each laborer can till by three or four fold, and to harvest a profit from untilled fields by animal husbandry. This is...
Page 21 - ... and elementary domestic science (given in the school), and a general course in domestic art. Most of these courses were continued the second semester. The report of the Board of Regents for the two years ending with 1906 tells of the organization of a four-year course in home economics: "A four-year course in home economics has been adopted and work therein begun. Preparation is the same as for entrance to the University, and the course leads to the degree of Bachelor of Science. Subjects relating...
Page 67 - ... it is to be regretted that more use is not made of this means of treatment, both in our county and in our state asylums.

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