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Charles Elmer Allison. PHOTO ENG CON . VIEW ON COLLEGE CAMPUS . HAMILTON COLLEGE FROM NORTH . COLLEGE CHAPEL FROM SOUTH . 2 6 1. THE REV . ALBERT BARNES , '20.
Charles Elmer Allison. PHOTO ENG CON . VIEW ON COLLEGE CAMPUS . HAMILTON COLLEGE FROM NORTH . COLLEGE CHAPEL FROM SOUTH . 2 6 1. THE REV . ALBERT BARNES , '20.
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... North , the Rev. Dr. Anson J. Upson , Professor in Auburn Theol . ' Seminary , the Rev. Dr. James Eells , Professor ... North Caro- lina , the Rev. Dr. Wm . E. Knox , Dr. D. H. Cochran , President of Brooklyn Polytechnic , Dr. Isaac H ...
... North , the Rev. Dr. Anson J. Upson , Professor in Auburn Theol . ' Seminary , the Rev. Dr. James Eells , Professor ... North Caro- lina , the Rev. Dr. Wm . E. Knox , Dr. D. H. Cochran , President of Brooklyn Polytechnic , Dr. Isaac H ...
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... North , formerly of the Albany Express , now editor of the Quarterly Bulletin of the National Association of Wool Growers , Chester S. Lord , managing editor of the New York Sun , E. M. Rewey , also of the New York Sun , A. L. Blair ...
... North , formerly of the Albany Express , now editor of the Quarterly Bulletin of the National Association of Wool Growers , Chester S. Lord , managing editor of the New York Sun , E. M. Rewey , also of the New York Sun , A. L. Blair ...
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... North America . He said . " The Indian men , when young , are hunters and warriors ; when old , counselors ; for all their government is by the counsel or advice of the sages ; there is no force , there are no prisons , no officers to ...
... North America . He said . " The Indian men , when young , are hunters and warriors ; when old , counselors ; for all their government is by the counsel or advice of the sages ; there is no force , there are no prisons , no officers to ...
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... North America. He said. " The Indian men, when young, are hunters and warriors ; when old, counselors ; for all their government is by the counsel or advice of the sages ; there is no force, there are no prisons, no officers to compel ...
... North America. He said. " The Indian men, when young, are hunters and warriors ; when old, counselors ; for all their government is by the counsel or advice of the sages ; there is no force, there are no prisons, no officers to compel ...
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Page 24 - We have had some experience of it; Several of our young people were formerly brought up at the colleges of the Northern Provinces; they were instructed in all your Sciences; but, when they came back to us, they were bad runners, ignorant of every means of living in the woods, unable to bear either cold or hunger, knew neither how to build a cabin, take a deer, or kill an enemy, spoke our language imperfectly, were therefore neither fit for hunters, warriors, nor counsellors; they were totally good...
Page 24 - Having few artificial wants, they have abundance of leisure for improvement by conversation. Our laborious manner of life, compared with theirs, they esteem slavish and base ; and the learning on which we value ourselves, .they regard as frivolous and useless.
Page 24 - I am an aged hemlock. The winds of a hundred winters have whistled through my branches, I am dead at the top. The generation to which I belonged has run away and left me. Why I live the great good Spirit only knows. Pray to my Jesus that I may have patience to wait for my appointed time to die.
Page 24 - But you who are wise must know that different nations have different conceptions of things, and you will therefore not take it amiss if our ideas of this kind of education happen not to be the same with yours. We have had some experience of it. Several of our young people were formerly brought up at the colleges of the northern provinces...
Page 13 - Minutes to recollect, that if he has omitted any thing he intended to say, or has any thing to add, he may rise again and deliver it. To interrupt another, even in common Conversation, is reckoned highly indecent.
Page 24 - Our laborious manner of life, compared with theirs, they esteem slavish and base ; and the learning on which we value ourselves they regard as frivolous and useless. An instance of this occurred at the treaty of Lancaster, in Pennsylvania, anno 1744, between the government of Virginia and the Six Nations. After the principal business was settled, the commissioners from Virginia acquainted the Indians by a speech that there was at Williamsburg...
Page 24 - After the principal business was settled, the commissioners from Virginia acquainted the Indians by a speech, that there was at Williamsburg a college, with a fund, for educating Indian youth, and that if the chiefs of the Six Nations would send down half a dozen of their sons to that college, the government would take care that they should be well provided for, and instructed in all the learning of the white people.
Page 24 - We are however not the less obliged by your kind offer, though we decline accepting it: And to show our grateful sense of it, if the Gentlemen of Virginia will send us a dozen of their sons, we will take great care of their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them.
Page 18 - counted he his life dear unto himself, so that he might finish his course with joy, and the ministry, which he had received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
Page 24 - that you highly esteem the kind of learning taught in those colleges, and that the maintenance of our young men, while with you, would be very expensive to you. We are convinced, therefore, that you mean to do us good by your proposal; and we thank you heartily. But you who are wise must know, that different nations have different conceptions of things; and you will therefore not take it amiss, if our ideas of this kind of education happen not to be the...