A History of Western Reserve College
Author : Carroll Cutler
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Page : 96 pages
File Size : 38,31 MB
Release : 1876
Category : Education
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Author : Carroll Cutler
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 38,31 MB
Release : 1876
Category : Education
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Author : Carroll Cutler
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,92 MB
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781020432958
Western Reserve College was one of the first institutions of higher learning in the western United States. This detailed history traces its development from its founding in 1826 to its golden age in the mid-nineteenth century. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Carroll Cutler
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 19,73 MB
Release : 2013-09
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ISBN : 9781230254623
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 edition. Excerpt: ... ORIGIN OF THE NAME. In 1031 the Earl of Warwick, one of the origiual patentees of New England, granted to Viscount Say and Seal, Lord Brook and others all that part of New England, extending from the Narraganset river, forty leagues along the coast and thence due west to the South Seas.' The northern boundary of this grant was vague, being determined by the previous vague patent of Massachusetts. It was finally determined to be forty-two degrees and two minutes north latitude. The southern boundary by the grant was the forty-first parallel. This territory was infringed upon by the Dutch settlements on the Hudson; and even after New Amsterdam fell into the hands of the English, the rights of Connecticut were not recognized, but an attempt was made even to confine her to the cast side of the Connecticut river. In the settlement of this controversy, she obtained substantially her present western boundary. The claims of Connecticut were jumped again by the grant to William Penn in 1081, of all her lands extending through five degrees of longitude west of the Delaware river. But she still retained the right and title to all lands west of Pennsylvania, between the fortyfirst parallel and the line of forty-two degrees two minutes. During the war of Independence, an attempt was made to adopt Articles of Confederation, which should constitute a definite form of government and bond of union between the Colonies. One great obstacle to the adoption of these Articles was the claim to these vast areas of western land macje by Massachusetts, Connecticut, New, York, Virginia and the Carolinas, in accordance with their original charters. The States which had no western claims, justly maintained that this territory must bo wrested from Great Britain by...
Author : William Seymour Tyler
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Page : 724 pages
File Size : 35,40 MB
Release : 1873
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Author : Robert Clarke & Co
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Page : 320 pages
File Size : 18,1 MB
Release : 1876
Category : America
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Author : Francis P. Harper (Firm)
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Page : 556 pages
File Size : 35,63 MB
Release : 1890
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Page : 394 pages
File Size : 29,85 MB
Release : 1876
Category : America
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Author : Flora Stone Mather College
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 40,29 MB
Release : 2015-09-11
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ISBN : 9781342374059
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Various
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 9066 pages
File Size : 13,98 MB
Release : 2021-03-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 0429790414
The volumes in this set, originally published between 1964 and 2002, draw together research by leading academics in the area of higher education, and provide a rigorous examination of related key issues. The volume examines the concepts of learning, teaching, student experience and administration in relation to the higher education through the areas of business, sociology, education reforms, government, educational policy, business and religion, whilst also exploring the general principles and practices of higher education in various countries. This set will be of particular interest to students and practitioners of education, politics and sociology.
Author : William Harris Arnold
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Page : 146 pages
File Size : 41,90 MB
Release : 1901
Category : American literature
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