"Educational institution" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... contract, an agreement, a well-nigh honest petty trade, no better, no worse than, say, the trade in groceries. Do you understand, gentlemen, that all the horror is in just this, that there is no horror! Bourgeois work days—and that is all. And also an after taste of an exclusive educational institution, with its NAIVETE, harshness, sentimentality ...
— Yama (The Pit) • Alexandra Kuprin
... the stock accruing thereon by way of increment or dividend. In view of the vibrations to which this stock was subjected during the fifteen years subsequent to the death of Mr. Hopkins, it should not be forgotten that it was his will that linked the fortune of the great educational institution, which he founded, to the fortune of another corporation, in which he had the highest confidence. Fortunately, the crisis into which this union led, has been successfully passed. The friends of the University generously subscribed for its support an "emergency ...
— The History Of University Education In Maryland • Bernard Christian Steiner
... by Geddes and Thompson. The History of Matrimonial Institutions, by George Elliott Howard, University of Chicago Press. Sex and Society, by W.I. Thomas. Descriptive and Historical Sociology, by Franklin H. Giddings. The Family as a Social and Educational Institution, by Willystine Goodsell. Social History of the American Family, by Arthur W. Calhoun. Sociology and Modern Social Problems, by Charles A. Ellwood. The Primitive Family as an Educational Agency, by Arthur J. Todd. Woman and Labor, by Olive Schreiner. The Family, by ...
— The Family and it's Members • Anna Garlin Spencer
... under ordinary circumstances, made an excellent point, and I want you all to notice it," said the principal. "We are an educational institution here on the hill. If we were giving a class play, or anything like that, I should vote for Miss Carrington's idea. At such a time something primarily educational should ...
— The Girls of Central High Aiding the Red Cross - Or Amateur Theatricals for a Worthy Cause • Gertrude W. Morrison
... preliminary efforts. The convention of 1910 showed that the membership was eighty thousand, distributed among three hundred and thirty-three lodges. It was resolved to start the actual work of founding an educational institution. A tax of two cents a week was laid on members and later increased to four cents. Land was bought, a building erected and in 1913 the school was dedicated by Thomas R. Marshall, Vice-President of ...
— The Iron Puddler • James J. Davis
... that reason that I used to say, when I had to do with the administration of an educational institution, that I should like to make the young gentlemen of the rising generation as unlike their fathers as possible. Not because their fathers lacked character or intelligence or knowledge or patriotism, but because ...
— The New Freedom - A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People • Woodrow Wilson
... is given, the theatres are good: in England and America, where none is given, they are bad. Perhaps in course of time our national or city governments will come to recognize and support the theatre as an educational institution, or at least as a good means of suppressing intemperance and other vices by supplying a harmless mode of amusement. There is little prospect, however, that this will happen soon. It is more likely that some of our rich men will ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 - of Popular Literature and Science • Various |
