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... interest in the character of SAMUEL KIRKLAND increase , but the College he founded as a means of education to the Indian , as well as the white man , will be regarded as a memorial of a race which at one time held despotic rule over a ...
... interest in the character of SAMUEL KIRKLAND increase , but the College he founded as a means of education to the Indian , as well as the white man , will be regarded as a memorial of a race which at one time held despotic rule over a ...
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... interest all who are of a studious habit . An American scholar , who had been listening to the chronicles of Hamilton College said , “ Surely the history of an institution of learning is a source of a part of its influence upon the ...
... interest all who are of a studious habit . An American scholar , who had been listening to the chronicles of Hamilton College said , “ Surely the history of an institution of learning is a source of a part of its influence upon the ...
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... interest , even where it did not arouse enthu- siasm . I recall an instance of this happy method . As long ago as 1839 , 6 the college authorities established for a short period elective HAMILTON COLLEGE , CLINTON , N. Y. 31.
... interest , even where it did not arouse enthu- siasm . I recall an instance of this happy method . As long ago as 1839 , 6 the college authorities established for a short period elective HAMILTON COLLEGE , CLINTON , N. Y. 31.
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... interest in young men , particularly in his former students . Few of these did he ever forget or fail to watch their future career with an affectionate interest . Before the age of sixty he retired from active life , as the poet of old ...
... interest in young men , particularly in his former students . Few of these did he ever forget or fail to watch their future career with an affectionate interest . Before the age of sixty he retired from active life , as the poet of old ...
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... interest- ing volume . The " Letter " of the class of 1833 , to which reference is here made , recalled the coming to Clinton of the gifted and handsome young portrait - painter , ( Elliott , ) his popu- larity with the collegians , and ...
... interest- ing volume . The " Letter " of the class of 1833 , to which reference is here made , recalled the coming to Clinton of the gifted and handsome young portrait - painter , ( Elliott , ) his popu- larity with the collegians , and ...
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A Historical Sketch of Hamilton College, Clinton, New York Charles Elmer Allison No preview available - 2018 |
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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...