First Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Rhode Island State Agricultural School and Experimental Station, Made to the General Assembly, at Its January Session, 1889 (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book First Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Rhode Island State Agricultural School and Experimental Station, Made to the General Assembly, at Its January Session, 1889 (Classic Reprint) written by R. I. Agricultural Experiment Station and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-26 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from First Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Rhode Island State Agricultural School and Experimental Station, Made to the General Assembly, at Its January Session, 1889 In our own State the fear that in some way educational institutions might interfere with that perfect individual religious freedom of thought and action which was the central motive that brought Roger Williams to settle Providence Plantations, seems to have caused divis ion of opinion among the early settlers and time passed on till 1762, when James Manning was instrumental in an effort to procure a char ter for the establishment of a University in Rhode Island, upon a broad basis of religious freedom. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.