This paper considers the distinctive and peculiar place that Presbyterianism and Presbyterian Church schools occupy in New Zealand’s education sector
In 1915, R P Farley said "the files of the Times must be constantly studied" as an authority for the political and social history of the English people during the period from the Reform Bill 1832 to the Education Act 1870 (1832 to 1870).[131] From 1971 to 1973, John Joseph Bagley sa...
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Chase, bemoaned his role in helping secure the passage of the National Banking Act. “My agency, in promoting the passage of the National Banking Act, was the greatest financial mistake in my life. It has built up a monopoly which affects every interest in the country.” On April 14th, 1...
The waterfront campus of Salve Regina University in Newport is built across seven grand estates established during the Gilded Age, a time of remarkable innovation and extravagance that spanned roughly from 1877 to 1896. Fronting the Atlantic Ocean, the 80-acre campus is surrounded by tide pools ...
of ‘Ali Shah Mirza, who was Fath ‘Ali Shah’s tenth son, it was not the case that, ‘The eldest son of the Shah…is known, and is always spoken of, by the title “Zil-i-Sultan”,’ who, ‘though first-born,’ is not necessarily Crown Prince, as Arnold (1877: 253) claimed...
We have an example of these things (that act on the senses) in [the sound and fire of] that children's toy which is made in many [diverse] parts of the world; i.e. a device no bigger than one's thumb. From the violence of that salt called saltpetre [together with sulphur and ...
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 provided that settlers would themselves determine whether to establish free or slave states. In 1857 the US Supreme Court handed down a decision in the Dred Scott case, wherein it held that a slave remained the property of his master in any state. Between ...
This differentiation in three types of education existed through 1970, when the General Education Law (GEL) replaced the Moyano Act and bannedenseñanza libre. The State incorporated secondary official education (orInstitutos) into its budgetary plans in 1887. However, there seems to be little, ...
To quote a Bengali text on women's education from 1877: The house of any civilized European is like the abode of gods. Every household object is clean, set in its proper place and decorated; nothing seems unclean or smells f o u l . . , it is as if [the goddess of] order [sr...