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Sayfa 9 - So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast.
Sayfa 2 - Technology, for the purpose of instituting and maintaining a society of arts, a museum of arts, and a school of industrial science, and aiding generally, by suitable means, the advancement, development, and practical application of science in connection with arts, agriculture, manufactures, and commerce...
Sayfa 1 - I have felt persuaded that of all places in the world it was the one most certain to derive the highest benefits from a Polytechnic Institution. The occupations and interests of the great mass of the people are immediately connected with the applications of physical science, and their quick intelligence has already impressed them with just ideas of the value of scientific teaching in their daily pursuits.
Sayfa 85 - Not the quarry, but the chase, Not the laurel, but the race, Not the hazard, but the play, Make me, Lord, enjoy alway!
Sayfa 3 - ... object of a polytechnic school is, as I conceive, the teaching, not of the minute details and manipulations of the arts, which can be done only in the workshop, but the inculcation of those scientific principles which form the basis and explanation of them, and along with this a full and methodical review of all their leading processes and operations in connection with physical laws.
Sayfa 4 - ... silence in the midst of speech ; that stately figure suddenly drooped ; the fire died out of that eye, ever so quick to kindle at noble thoughts, and, before one of his attentive listeners had time to suspect the cause, he fell to the platform — instantly dead. All his life he had borne himself most faithfully and heroically, and he died as so good a knight would surely have wished, in harness, at his post, and in the very part and act of public duty.3 At the Buffalo meeting, in 1876, Simon...
Sayfa 68 - Journals. 2. The president shall discharge the usual duties of a presiding officer at all meetings of the Society and council.
Sayfa 21 - Laboratories, the object being: (l) to give the student practice in such work as engineers in the pursuit of their profession are called upon to perform; (2) to enable him to base all his work upon some principles, not upon empirical rules; (3) to teach him to perform original investigations; and (4.) to enable him, by means of a thorough familiarity with both the theoretical and the practical aspects of his business, to deal intelligently with other men. Mathematics, Physics, and Applied Mechanics...
Sayfa 1 - Statutes of 1887, chap. 103. are immediately connected with the applications of physical science, and their quick intelligence has already impressed them with just ideas of the...

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