 | United States. Bureau of Education, United States. Office of Education - 1889 - 730 pages
...university idea and gave it national scope. There upon the Potomac he proposed to found a National University, drawing its economic life from the great...some measure an historic, although an unconscious, fulfilment of that old dream of Washington when, a hundred years later, Johns Hopkins determined to... | |
 | Herbert Baxter Adams - 1885 - 126 pages
...of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. and West. The route which he suggested is now indeed " becoming the channel of the extensive and valuable trade of a rising empire." By the waters of the Potomac, near our Nation's Capital, there stands to-day a monument to George Washington,... | |
 | Herbert Baxter Adams - 1885 - 116 pages
...commercial enterprise between the East and West. The route which he suggested is now indeed " becoming the channel of the extensive and valuable trade of a rising empire." 'Book of (froat Railway Celebrations in 1857. By William Prescott Smith. On pages 21.5-16 there is... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education, United States. Office of Education - 1886 - 844 pages
...connection it is interesting to observe that, along the very route which Washington thought would become "the channel of the extensive and valuable trade of a rising empire," was constructed, not only the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, but the Baltimore aud Ohio Eailroad. It is still... | |
 | American Association of School Administrators - 1889 - 314 pages
...university idea and gave it national scope. There upon the Potomac he proposed to found a National University, drawing its economic life from the great...some measure an historic, although an unconscious, fulfilment of that old dream of Washington when, a hundred years later, Johns Hopkins determined to... | |
 | State Historical Society of Wisconsin - 1889 - 674 pages
...to found a national university, drawing its economic life from the great artery of commerce whi--li connects the Atlantic sea-board and the great west....although an unconscious, fulfillment of that old dream of Washingtou, when, a hundred years later, Johns Hopkins determined to establish upon the Maryland side... | |
 | Johns Hopkins University - 1898 - 124 pages
...university idea and gave it national scope. There upon the Potomac he proposed to found a National University, drawing its economic life from the great...some measure an historic, although an unconscious, fulfilment of that old dream of Washington when, a hundred years later, Johns Hopkins determined to... | |
 | 1888 - 1078 pages
...university idea and gave it national scope. There upon the Potomac he proposed to found a National University, drawing its economic life from the great...this Potomac route as " the channel of the extensive anJ valuable trade of a rising empire." THE STATE AND HIGHER EDUCATION. 271 »f commerce f Forms of... | |
 | State Historical Society of Wisconsin - 1891 - 106 pages
...idea, and gave it national scope. There upon the bank of the Potomac he proposed to found a national university, drawing its economic life from the great...Hopkins determined to establish upon the Maryland side of the Potomac, a university with an economic tributary in the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, which... | |
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There upon the bank of the Potomac he proposed to found a national university, drawing its economic life from the great artery of commerce which connects the Atlantic sea-board and the great west. As early as 1770, Washington described this Potomac route... 