Word: burean
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Glenn bill, which makes it a penal offence to teach in mixed schools of white and colored pupils, has brought the Atlanta University into prominence. In 1869, the Freedman's Burean established the university and soon after the State appropriated a large sum for its support. The outcry raised against the Glenn bill was so great that a modification was introduced which withheld all State appropriations, and by so doing a direct income of $8000 per year was taken from the university. The policy of the institution has not been abandoned on this account, and the subscriptions of private individuals...
...very interesting and valuable pamphlet on the "The Study of History in American Colleges and Universities" has recently been published by the Burean of Education, at Washington. The main object of the publication is to trace the origin of the study of history at the various centers of learning in this country and to show the importance of the political and narrative history of the United States to the college faculties. Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Cornell and University of Michigan have been taken as the representative colleges for men in the United States. The following is an extract from the chapter...
...Tremont Temple. I beg the opportunity of stating to the fellow students through your paper, that such an impression, if entertained, is entirely erroneous. The entire profits of the lecture go to Mr. Bowen. After this introductory lecture has been given, I shall, on other engagements, receive the usual Burean Commission. Seeing in the future large success with Mr. Bowen, I have volunteered to assist him in his first appearance. I might add that, in the course of more than twenty years' experience in the lecture business, I have, rarely if ever, had presented to me a lecture that promised...