University and historical addresses: delivered during a residence in the United States as ambassador of Great Britain /
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New York :
The Macmillan company,
1913.
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Table of Contents:
- The beginnings of Virginia
- What university instruction may do to provide intellectual pleasures for later life
- The landing of the Pilgrims in 1620
- The influence of national character and historical environment on the development of the common law
- The conditions and methods of legislation
- Thomas Jefferson: third president of the United States and founder of the University of Virginia
- Missions past and present
- The mission of state universities
- The art of Augustus Saint-Gaudens
- Architecture and history
- The character and career of Abraham Lincoln
- The Scotch-Irish race in Ulster and in America
- What a university may do for a state
- Allegiance to humanity
- The tercentenary of the discovery of lake Champlain
- Some hints on public speaking
- Special and general education in universities
- The study of ancient literature
- On the writing and teaching of history