 | United States. Office of Education - 1934 - 1134 pages
...who are awarded scholarships. THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA' In 1749, Benjamin Franklin published a pamphlet entitled "Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania." Shortly thereafter a board of 24 interested persons, HUh Franklin as leader, was selected to organize... | |
 | Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker - 1910 - 514 pages
...academy was due to the publication of this paper and his own subsequent personal efforts. He says: "This I distributed among the principal inhabitants...gratis; and as soon as I could suppose their minds prepared by the perusal of it I set on foot a subscription for opening and supporting an academy —... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - 1911 - 918 pages
...Registrar. Pennsylvania, University of, located at Philadelphia. In 1749 Benjamin Franklin published a pamphlet entitled 'Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania,' and shortly afterward 24 citizens of Philadelphia associated themselves for the establishing of an... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - 1912 - 908 pages
...Registrar. Pennsylvania, University of, located at Philadelphia. In 1749 Benjamin Franklin published a pamphlet entitled 'Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania,' and shortly afterward 24 citizens of Philadelphia associated themselves for the establishing of an... | |
 | William Cabell Bruce - 1917 - 560 pages
...Promotion of Useful Knowledge; and Franklin, though absent in England, was elected its first President. next to write and publish a pamphlet entitled Proposals...Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania. In this pamphlet he was careful, as usual, to bring his aim forward rather as that of a group of public-spirited... | |
 | 1936 - 680 pages
...he in education, and in 1 743 drew up proposals for a new secondary school. Eventually he published a pamphlet entitled "Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania "i which was distributed to selected families free of charge with an invitation to sul> scribe to the... | |
 | Mary Belle Hooton - 1918 - 182 pages
...volitional powers. Even Franklin's Academy followed largely the classical lines. He wrote and published a pamphlet, entitled "Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania," in which he outlined what presumably was his ideal of an education. His ideal of education was vocational... | |
 | Paul Klapper - 1920 - 616 pages
...few years later Benjamin Franklin advanced for the college a new raison d'etre. In 1749 he published a pamphlet entitled " Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania," in which he advocated the establishment of an academy whose purpose was not the training of ministers... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, Clarence Stratton - 1922 - 648 pages
...associate in the design a number of active friends, of whom the Junto furnished a good part; the next was to write and publish a pamphlet, entitled Proposals...distributed among the principal inhabitants gratis; 10 and as soon as I could suppose their minds a little prepared by the perusal of it, I set on foot... | |
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I turn'd my thoughts again to the affair of establishing an academy. The first step I took was to associate in the design a number of active friends, of whom the Junto furnished a good part; the next was to write and publish a pamphlet, entitled Proposals... 
