The Crank, Volume 6Students of the Sibley College, Cornell University., 1892 - Engineering |
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Page 290 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the...
Page 280 - Their education in the high schools and colleges tends rather to unfit them for the active industries of life in a country where the vast resources of nature are waiting for willing and trained hands to utilize them.
Page 46 - At the end of the combining tube, and before entering the forcer, is an opening connecting the interior of the nozzle at this point with the surrounding area. This area is connected with the outside air by a check valve, opening outward in the automatic injectors, and by a valve termed the overflow valve.
Page 323 - A common school system of general education, which shall give all young children tuition in the three studies which are the foundation of all education, and which shall be administered under compulsory law, as now generally adopted by the best educated nations and States on both sides the Atlantic.
Page 327 - ... have already been given that advantage by their statesmen and educators a generation earlier. The question whether this comparison shall remain as startling and as discreditable to the people of the United States in future years as it is to-day, is to be determined by the ability of our people to. understand and appreciate the importance of this subject, by the interest which the more intelligent classes may take in the matter, and upon the amount of influence which thinking citizens and educated...
Page 333 - The said bureau shall further collect, compile, and publish such statistics in regard to the wages of labor and the social condition of the laboring classes as may enable the people of the State to judge how far legislation can be invoked to correct existing evils...
Page 324 - ... of transportation, the relief of important undeveloped industries from State and municipal taxes, and even, in exceptional cases, by subsidy. It is evident that such methods of encouragement must be adopted very circumspectly and with exceedingly great caution, lest serious abuses arise. (7). A system of general supervision of the industries of the State by properly constituted departments of the State Government.
Page 324 - A system of trade schools, in which general and special instruction should be given to pupils preparing to enter the several leading industries, and in which the principles underlying each industry, as well as the actual and essential manipulations, should be illustrated and taught by practical exercises until the pupil is given a good knowledge of them and more skill in conducting them. This series should include schools of carpentry, stone cutting, blacksmithing, etc., etc., weaving schools, schools...
Page 184 - Admission, a; expansion, b\ exhaust, c; compression, d. To denote different events of the stroke, the following sub-numbers are used: Cut-off, i; release, 2; compression, beginning of, 3; admission, .beginning of, o; in exhaust, 5. Quality of steam denoted by X. Cut-off , crank end, per cent of stroke.
Page 197 - Never value anything as profitable to thyself which shall compel thee to break thy promise, to lose thy selfrespect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything which needs walls and curtains...