Word: united
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...adults, embracing lecture courses, with classes, exercises, examinations and certificates. The American Society for the extension of University Teaching, founded in 1890 by Dr. Pepper, has organized "local centres" in the neighboring states; and through branch societies and affiliated colleges has stimulated general diffusion of the system. The "Unit of Instruction" is a course of six or twelve weekly or fortnightly lectures, followed by a special conference or class. The "unit of organization" consists of a committee of citizens or the directors of a literary or social club, who are willing to assume the local management of the course. Lecturers...
...instruct the people in correct principles of government and especially of taxation - who in short preferred to teach the people rather than rule them - do hereby resolve to send ten delegates to the second inauguration of Grover Cleveland, and do earnestly request all the colleges and universities of the United States to unit +++ grand student demonstration in honor of our great political teacher...
People must come to see that marriage is something more than a temporary compact between two people: they must realize that it is, through the family, the unit of civilization and the basis of lasting progress, and that the struggle between marriage and divorce is really the struggle of a social self, which leads to universal well-being, against a selfish self, which leads to chaos...
...education is character, and while you may speak of different parts of man, still he is really a unit and must be developed as a unit. All literature which does not build up in man faith, hope and love, has no place in the world. It is no excuse to give him unhealthy and demoralizing news merely because he will read it, but everything should tend to a strong and well-rounded character...
...peculiarly divided up into such areas, hence the large number of its political divisions and the fixedness of the race characteristics of the separate peoples. North America on the other hand, is unfitted to be the cradle-place of different peoples, for it is in the main, a geographical unit...