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Page 37 - The Legislature shall, within five years from the adoption of this constitution, provide for and establish a system of primary schools, whereby a school shall be kept without charge for tuition, at least three months in each year, in every school district in the State; and all instruction in said schools shall be conducted in the English language.
Page 70 - In the next place, the University, having been endowed by the General Government, affords education without money and without price. There is no young man so poor, that industry, diligence, and perseverance, will not enable him to get an education here. The present condition of the University confirms this view of its character. While the sons of the rich, and of men of more or less property, and, in large proportion, the sons of substantial farmers, mechanics, and merchants, are educated here, there...
Page 3 - First District, Second District, - - Third District, Fourth District, Fifth District, Sixth District, Seventh District, Eighth District, - - ' Ninth District, Tenth District, Eleventh District, Twelfth District...
Page 65 - The building consists of a main part, with a movable dome 21 feet in diameter, and two wings, one of which contains the rooms for the observer, while in the other, the splendid Meridian-Circle, presented by HN WALKER, Esq., of Detroit, is mounted. This instrument, which is one of the largest and best of its kind, was imported from Berlin. The focal length of its telescope is eight feet; the aperture of the object-glass, six French inches.
Page 37 - The System of Public Instruction adopted by the State of Michigan is copied from the Prussian, acknowledged to be the most perfect in the world. ... In the University, it is designed to organize all the Faculties with the exception of the Theological, which will be left to the different denominations.
Page 60 - Terms of Admission. The sole requisites of admission are that the candidate should be eighteen years of age, and be furnished with certificates giving satisfactory evidence of good moral character. No previous course of reading is required, and the course of instruction for the two terms has been carefully arranged, with a view to enable students to enter profitably at any stage of their studies, and at either term. III. Course of Instruction. The design of the department is to give a course of instruction...
Page 59 - ... empiric; but he who has obtained a thorough scientific discipline knows how to discriminate between visionary conjectures and established truths. In pursuance of this prime object, several modifications of the prevailing system of medical teaching have been...
Page 68 - Frieze, and at present comprises — 1. A gallery of casts, in full size and in reduction, of the most valuable ancient statues and busts. These were mainly executed at the imperial modeling establishment of the Louvre, by Desachy, of Paris, and by the brothers Micheli, of Berlin. 2. A gallery of more than two hundred reductions and models, in terra cotta, and other materials. These represent the principal statues, portrait busts, vases, and other antiquities in the Museo Borbonico, and other European...
Page 39 - It is proposed, therefore, at as early a day as practicable, to open courses of lectures for those who have graduated at this or other institutions, and for those who in other ways have made such preparation as may enable them to attend upon them with advantage. These lectures, in accordance with the educational systems of Germany and France, will form the proper development of the University, in distinction from the College or Gymnasium now in operation.
Page 55 - The candidate must be a graduate either of this, or of some other collegiate institution empowered to confer degrees. 2. He must pursue at least two of the courses in each semester, designated in the following programme.