...development of our country. In his final message to Congress, Washington said among other things: " I have heretofore proposed to the consideration of...that I cannot omit the opportunity of once for all recalling your attention to them." The sincerity of Washington's wishes led him to bequeath to the...

...Experience, accordingly, has shown that they are very cheap instruments of immense national importance. "I have heretofore proposed to the consideration of...national university, and also a military academy." About this time, too, agricultural societies were organized in almost every Southern State under the...

...more apparent and renders the cultivation of the soil more and more an object of public patronage. I have heretofore proposed to the consideration of...expediency of establishing a National University and a Military Academy." The Military Academy was established, but no place provided for giving instruction...

...Congress, in which he said: "Its desirableness has so constantly increased with every new view that I have taken of the subject, that I cannot omit the opportunity of, once for all, recalling your attention to it." Among the expected advantages he suggests the following : "The assimilation...

...7, 1796 (Washington's Writings, Sparks' edition, Vol. XII, p. 71). In that speech Washington urged " the expediency of establishing a national university and also a military academy." All the world knows America's debt to West Point and Annapolis. In these days when colonial administration,...

...accordingly hath shown that they are very cheap instruments of immense national benefit. I have therefore proposed to the consideration of Congress the expediency of establishing a national universitv, and also a military academy. The desirableness of both these institutions has so constantly...