The Place Of The University In National Life Classic Reprint

Author : Charles D. Walcott
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781331162247
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Relations of the National Government to Higher Education and Research (Classic Reprint) written by Charles D. Walcott and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Relations of the National Government to Higher Education and Research When one considers the relations of the General Government to higher education and research, probably the first question to arise is, What, within the limitations imposed by the Constitution, can the Government do? Other pertinent inquiries are: What has been done? What is the present policy of the Government? How are its educational resources being utilized? What can be done that is not already being well done by our universities, colleges and technical institutions? Many of our wisest and best statesmen and jurists believe that the General Government has no power, under the Constitution, to appropriate money for educational purposes, that important function having been left to the States. A glance backward over the history of colonial and national discussion and legislation is interesting and instructive. History Of Colonial And National Discussion. In colonial times Oxford, Cambridge and Edinburgh were to American youth the centers of learning and higher education. These famous universities furnished all that was needed by the well-to-do student, and local colleges were given little attention and scant support. The founders of our college system were obliged to meet adverse conditions which developed the same qualities that led their compatriots to the conquest of the continent. Early in the seventeenth century (1619) the Virginia Company granted ten thousand acres of land 'for the foundation of a seminary of learning for the English in Virginia.' At the suggestion of the King, the bishops of England, in the same year, raised fifteen hundred pounds to aid in the education of the Indians in connection with the proposed grant of land for the seminary. A portion of the land was occupied and the seminary was started under the direction of George Thorpe, a man of high standing in England. But the institution was shortlived. It, with its inmates and founder, perished in the Indian massacre of 1622. In 1624 an island in the Susquehanna river was granted for the founding and maintenance of a university, but the undertaking lapsed with the death of its projector and of James I. and the fall of the Virginia Company. For a time the movement for higher education was delayed, but in 1636 Harvard was founded; then William and Mary, in 1660; Yale, in 1701; the College of New Jersey, in 1746; the University of Pennsylvania, in 1751; Columbia, in 1754; Brown, in 1764; Dartmouth, in 1769; the University of Maryland, in 1784; the University of North Carolina, in 1789-'95; the University of Vermont, in 1791, and Bow-doin, in 1794. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.