Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385200814
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
First Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Chicago Public Library
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385200814
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385200814
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
Official Documents, Comprising the Department and Other Reports Made to the Governor, Senate and House of Representatives of Pennsylvania
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 964
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 964
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Official Documents, Comprising the Department and Other Reports Made to the Governor, Senate, and House of Representatives of Pennsylvania
Author: Pennsylvania
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Category : Legislative journals
Languages : en
Pages : 962
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Category : Legislative journals
Languages : en
Pages : 962
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Annual Reports [of] President and Treasurer
Author: Wellesley College
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Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Annual report of the trustees. [1st]-44th, 46th
Author: New York city, Astor libr
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Languages : en
Pages : 902
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Languages : en
Pages : 902
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1st-4th, 1889-92 ; 6th-8th, 1896-98
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Languages : en
Pages : 652
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Languages : en
Pages : 652
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Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Presbyterian Education Society
Author: Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Education
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Languages : en
Pages : 776
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Languages : en
Pages : 776
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Annual Reports of Officers, Boards, and Institutions of the Commonwealth of Virginia, for the Year Ending September 30 ...
Author: Virginia
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Category : Administrative agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 1600
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Category : Administrative agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 1600
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The School Journal
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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Frederick Watts and the Founding of Penn State
Author: Roger L. Williams
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271090499
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Frederick Watts came to prominence during the nineteenth century as a lawyer and a railroad company president, but his true interests lay in agricultural improvement and in raising the economic, social, and political standing of Pennsylvania’s farmers. After being elected founding president of The Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society in 1851, he used his position to advocate vigorously for the establishment of an agricultural college that would employ science to improve farming practices. He went on to secure the charter for the Farmers’ High School of Pennsylvania, which would eventually become the Pennsylvania State University. This biography explores Watts’s role in founding and leading Penn State through its formative years. Watts adroitly directed the school as it was sited, built, and financed, opening for students in 1859. He hired the brilliant Evan Pugh as founding president, who, with Watts, quickly made it the first successful agricultural college in America. But for all his success in launching the institution, Watts nearly brought it to the brink of closure through a series of ruinous presidential appointments that led to an abandonment of the land-grant focus on agriculture and engineering. Watts’s influence in the agricultural modernization movement and his impact on land-grant education in the United States—both in his role with Penn State and later as US commissioner of agriculture—made him a leader in the history of agricultural and higher education. Roger L. Williams’s compelling biography of Watts reestablishes him in this legacy, providing a balanced analysis of his missteps and accomplishments.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271090499
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Frederick Watts came to prominence during the nineteenth century as a lawyer and a railroad company president, but his true interests lay in agricultural improvement and in raising the economic, social, and political standing of Pennsylvania’s farmers. After being elected founding president of The Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society in 1851, he used his position to advocate vigorously for the establishment of an agricultural college that would employ science to improve farming practices. He went on to secure the charter for the Farmers’ High School of Pennsylvania, which would eventually become the Pennsylvania State University. This biography explores Watts’s role in founding and leading Penn State through its formative years. Watts adroitly directed the school as it was sited, built, and financed, opening for students in 1859. He hired the brilliant Evan Pugh as founding president, who, with Watts, quickly made it the first successful agricultural college in America. But for all his success in launching the institution, Watts nearly brought it to the brink of closure through a series of ruinous presidential appointments that led to an abandonment of the land-grant focus on agriculture and engineering. Watts’s influence in the agricultural modernization movement and his impact on land-grant education in the United States—both in his role with Penn State and later as US commissioner of agriculture—made him a leader in the history of agricultural and higher education. Roger L. Williams’s compelling biography of Watts reestablishes him in this legacy, providing a balanced analysis of his missteps and accomplishments.