Bostonia, Volumes 1-3

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Boston University, 1900
 

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Page 21 - For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou earnest them away as with a flood : they are as a sleep : in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up ; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
Page 22 - Nicolson came into my room, and told me that his master had awoke in a state of composure and consciousness, and wished to see me immediately. I found him entirely himself, though in the last extreme of feebleness. His eye was clear and calm — every trace of the wild fire of delirium extinguished. " Lockhart," he said, ".I may have but a minute to speak to you.
Page 4 - The poet, as a man and citizen, will love his native land; but the native land of his poetic powers and poetic action is the good, noble, and beautiful, which is confined to no particular province or country, and which he seizes upon and forms wherever he finds it.
Page 2 - Government. 6. To ensure the prompt publication and distribution of the results of scientific investigation, a field considered highly important. If in any year the full income of the trust cannot be usefully expended or devoted to the purposes herein enumerated, the Committee may pay such sums as they think fit into a reserve fund, to be ultimately applied to those purposes, or to the construction of such buildings as it may be found necessary to erect in Washington. The specific objects named are...
Page 6 - It means that for all the people of theState the annual excess is $198,686,802. That is to say, the productive energy of Massachusetts yields nearly $200,000,000 a year more than it would yield if the per capita productive capacity of the State were no greater than the average throughout the country. This is twenty times the annual running expenses of the public schools. It is not necessary to attribute to the schools this vast excess of production above the average for the country to prove that...
Page 22 - This I can now truly say, that so long as I have lived I have striven to live worthily, and after my death to leave my memory to my descendants in good works2.
Page 1 - Medicine, also for improving and extending the opportunities for scientific study and research, and to increasing the facilities for acquiring a knowledge of History, Economics, English Literature and Modern Languages, and such other subjects cognate to a technical or commercial education as can be brought within the scope of the University...
Page 2 - Applicants must be of Scottish birth or extraction, or must have given two years' attendance after the age of fourteen at a school or institution under inspection of the Scottish Education Department.
Page 6 - Massachusetts, based upon figures obtained in the same census, shows an average per capita production of 66 cents per working day. The ratio, according to these figures, is 66 to 37, the excess being 29 cents a day. The lengths of schooling for Massachusetts and for the country at large have slightly increased since Dr. Harris's statement, but their ratio has not materially changed. Whether we take Dr. Harris's earlier showing or Mr. Wadlin's later, the larger wealth-producing power accompanies the...

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