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Diary For 09 03 To 11 01, 1884, Willis Carter

Willis Carter Diaries

Pages from a diary kept by a teacher from Pembroke, Maine.

Diary For 11 02 To 12 31, 1884 With Weather, School Records, Willis Carter

Willis Carter Diaries

Pages from a diary kept by a teacher from Pembroke, Maine. After the entry for December 31, several pages record snow storm dates and snowfall measurements, names and amounts of money received for a Sabbath School Library, records of items purchased, and a few entries related to payments from the Ox Cove School.

Diary For 09 01 To 10 30, 1883, Willis Carter

Willis Carter Diaries

Pages from a diary kept by a teacher from Pembroke, Maine during the year of 1883.

Diary For 07 01 To 08 31, 1883, Willis Carter

Willis Carter Diaries

Pages from a diary kept by a teacher from Pembroke, Maine during the year of 1883.

Diary For 03 01 To 04 29, 1883, Willis Carter

Willis Carter Diaries

Pages from a diary kept by a teacher from Pembroke, Maine during the year of 1883.

Diary For 04 30 To 06 30, 1883, Willis Carter

Willis Carter Diaries

Pages from a diary kept by a teacher from Pembroke, Maine during the year of 1883.

Diary For 10 31 To 12 31, 1883 With Financial Records, Willis Carter

Willis Carter Diaries

Pages from a diary kept by a teacher from Pembroke, Maine during the year of 1883.

Diary For 01 11 To 02 28, 1883, Willis Carter

Willis Carter Diaries

Pages from a diary kept a teacher from Pembroke, Maine.

Diary For 01 01 To 02 28, 1881, Willis Carter

Willis Carter Diaries

Pages from a diary kept by Willis Carter, a teacher who lived in West Pembroke, Maine.

Diary For 05 02 To 06 30, 1881, Willis Carter

Willis Carter Diaries

Pages from a diary kept by Willis Carter, a teacher who lived in West Pembroke, Maine.

Diary For 03 01 To 05 01, 1881, Willis Carter

Willis Carter Diaries

Pages from a diary kept by Willis Carter, a teacher who lived in West Pembroke, Maine. This section includes minutes from a Town Meeting held in March, 1881.

Diary For 09 03 To 12 28, 1881 With Cash Accounts, Willis Carter

Willis Carter Diaries

Pages from a diary kept by Willis Carter, a teacher who lived in West Pembroke, Maine. There were no entries from August 23 to September 26 or September 27 to December 22, 1881.

Diary For 07 01 To 08 22, 1881, Willis Carter

Willis Carter Diaries

Pages from a diary kept by Willis Carter, a teacher who lived in West Pembroke, Maine.

Report Of The Evidence And Conclusions Of The Committee To Investigate The Sale Of The Agricultural College Scrip, Maine Legislature, Committee To Investigate The Sale Of The Agricultural College Scrip

General University of Maine Publications

A transcript of the testimony and evidence presented at legislative hearings made to the fifty-fifth legislature in 1876 to investigate the sale of Maine's land grant scrip at a price "far below the market rates for such property."

Commencement Program, Maine State College Of Agriculture And Mechanic Arts, August 7, 1872, Maine State College

General University of Maine Publications

The printed program for the first Commencement exercises held for Maine State College in Orono, Maine August 7, 1872.

Within the Annual Report for 1872, President Allen noted, "The day which had so long been looked forward to, as the great event in the history of student life, and which had been the occasion of so much solicitude to the friends of the institution, dawned bright and beautiful. The graduation of the first class marks an epoch in the history of the college which will be remembered with satisfaction as a successful manifestation of what can be accomplished in giving …

Mendelssohn Quintette Club Concert Programme, Maine State College

General University of Maine Publications

The program for a concert by the Mendelssohn Quintette Club of Boston held on the evening of the first Commencement ceremony of Maine State College, August 7, 1872.

Commencement Concert Flyer, 1872, Maine State College

General University of Maine Publications

A flyer announcing a concert to be held on the evening of the first Commencement for Maine State College, Orono, August 7, 1872.

Exhibition Of The Junior And Sophomore Classes, Maine State College Of Agriculture And The Mechanical Arts

General University of Maine Publications

A printed program that provides the order of exercises for an Exhibition of Declamations (original speeches and readings) by the members of the junior and sophomore classes at Maine State College in 1871.

Catalogue Of The Officers And Students Of The State College Of Agriculture And The Mechanic Arts, January, 1870, University Of Maine, Office Of Student Records

General University of Maine Publications

This catalog for the Maine State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, later known as the University of Maine, includes a list of the Board of Trustees, faculty members, students in the first two classes to ever enter the college -- listing them as being among the sophomore and freshman class -- and provides information about the design of the institution, conditions of admission, describes the classes to be taken in a two year course of study, describes the labor requirement, location, farm and buildings, expenses and means for defraying them, a general statement on the need for strict …

Catalogue Of The Officers And Students Of The State College Of Agriculture And The Mechanic Arts, 1869, University Of Maine, Office Of Student Records

General University of Maine Publications

This catalog for the Maine State College of Agriculture, later known as the University of Maine, includes sections on the design of the institution, conditions of admission, courses to be taken during a two year course of study, labor requirement for students, information about the location of campus, the farm and buildings, equipment, library, reading room, chemical laboratory's mineralogical cabinet, a student-organized Literary Society, and the requirement for public worship and attending daily prayers.

Architect's Report To The Board Of Trustees Of The College Of Agriculture, And The Mechanic Arts, Of The State Of Maine, Frederick Law Olmsted

General University of Maine Publications

The report of Frederick Law Olmsted on design considerations for the Land Grant College for the state of Maine presented in 1867.

Olmsted's report begins on page 15 of the Annual Report of the State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts as it appeared in Documents of the Legislature of the State of Maine, 46th Legislature, House Document no. 57. The entire document was scanned.

Olmsted discusses what he views as important and unique design considerations given the goal of the college, to provide a liberal education to those who are to remain members of the industrial classes. He …

An Address Delivered Before The Penobscot Association Of Teachers And Friends Of Popular Education, At Bangor, Dec. 26, 1838, Joseph Cammet Lovejoy

Maine Bicentennial

A pamphlet providing a view on public education in post-Colonial America as: "the science of rearing men, fitted to be useful members of society on earth, and for everlasting felicity in heaven."

Female Education, A Discourse, Delivered At The Dedication Of The Seminary Hall In Saugus, Jan. 15, 1822, To Which Is Added The Little Reckoner, Consisting Principally Of Arithmatical Questions For Infant Minds, Joseph Emerson

Maine Bicentennial

That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace. --Psalm 144:12 (King James Version)

The literal import of this prayer, is, that our daughters may be qualified to till with dignity, propriety and usefulness, the important stations, which they may be called to occupy. But prayer, without corresponding exertion, is presumption. We are not to expect miracles. Something must be done, in order that females may attain that dignified and elevated rank in society, for which the God of nature, as well …