Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 101, no. 1, 1957)

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Page 49 - President Gilman, your first achievement here, with the help of your colleagues, your students, and your trustees, has been, to my thinking — and I have had good means of observation — the creation of a school of graduate studies, which not only has been in itself a strong and potent school, but which has lifted every other university in the country in its departments of arts and sciences.
Page 79 - Car, dit-il, tout ceci est ce qu'il ya de mieux ; car s'il ya un volcan à Lisbonne , il ne pouvait être ailleurs ; car il est impossible que les choses ne soient pas où elles sont, car tout est bien.
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Page 39 - Whilst Germany was multiplying her universities, establishing between them the most salutary emulation, bestowing honours and consideration on the masters and doctors, creating vast laboratories amply supplied with the most perfect instruments, France, enervated by revolutions, ever vainly seeking for the best form of Government, was giving but careless attention to her establishments for higher education.
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