The City of Saint Louis of To-day: Its Progress and Prospects ...

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J. O. Yeakle & Company, 1889 - 316 sider

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Side 106 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the Federal constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages, and immunities, of citizens of the United States ; and, in the mean time, they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the religion which they profess.
Side 117 - Thinks of thy fate and checks her tears. And she, the mother of thy boys. Though in her eye and faded cheek Is read the grief she will not speak, The memory of her buried Joys, And even she who gave thee birth, Will by their pilgrim-circled hearth Talk of thy doom without a sigh: For thou art freedom's now and fame's, One of the few, the immortal names, That were not born to die.
Side 177 - ... the use of machine-shop tools, and such other' instruction of a similar character as may be deemed advisable to add to the foregoing from time to time.
Side 131 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th
Side 321 - has, with a great knowledge of his subject, given other points where, by making use of some streams which flow into the Gulf of Mexico, the end may be perhaps better attained than at Panama. All this is reserved for the future, and for an enterprising spirit. So much, however, is certain, that, if they succeed in cutting such a canal that ships of any burden and size can be navigated through it from the Mexican Gulf to the Pacific Ocean, innumerable...
Side 179 - Onft great object of the school is to foster a higher appreciation of the value and dignity of intelligent labor, and the worth and respectability of lalwring men.
Side 21 - I may sink into oblivion, and our families become extinct, but the progress of our city Is morally certain ; the causes of its prosperity are inscribed upon the very face of the earth, and are as permanent as the foundations of the soil and the sources of the Mississippi. These matters are not brought to your recollection for the mere purpose of eulogy, but that a suitable system of improvements may always be kept in view, that the rising of the infant city may correspond with the expectations of...
Side 179 - The zeal and enthusiasm of the students have been developed to a most gratifying extent, extending into all the departments of work. The variety afforded by the daily programme has had the moral and intellectual effect expected, and an unusual degree of sober earnestness has been shown. Success in drawing or shop work has often had the effect of arousing the ambition in mathematics and history, and vice versa.
Side 170 - For twenty-five years art instruction has been embodied in the course of study.' In 1875, special students were admitted to the Drawing Department, and class and public lectures were given on Art History. The same year an evening school was opened. "On May...
Side 19 - Here the free spirit of mankind at length, Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place A limit to the giant's unchained strength^ Or curb his swiftness in the forward race...

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