 | Edward Walford - 1857 - 76 pages
...appointed a mixed commission of military men and civilians, who were charged to revise all the programmes of instruction, and to recommend all needful changes...entrance and those actually pursued in the school. The ancient chronic dispute between the exclusive study of abstract mathematics on the one hand, and their... | |
 | Education - 1862 - 752 pages
...roads, shipbuilding, mining — carried out, in a wo*d, most of the great improvements of Napoleon, lie knew the value of his school, " the hen" as he called...Improvement of the Polytechnic School, President. Lo Verrier, Member of the Academy of Sciences and of the Legislative Assembly, Reporter. Noizet, General... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Military education - 1862 - 412 pages
...The last of these occasions illustrates the present position of the school. On the 5th of June l850, the legislative assembly appointed a mixed commission...the studies of the pupils, both those preparatory to entrances and those actually pursued in the school. The commission was composed as follows :— M.... | |
 | Education - 1871 - 964 pages
...after life. We should add, perhaps, that there has been some protest in France (though little bciird among the scientific men who have been the chief directors...Member of the Academy of Sciences, and of the Board of Гтprovement of the Polytechnic School, President. Le Verrier, Member of the Academy of Sciences and... | |
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... reproduced in the letters of war ministers, of artillery and engineer officers commanding the school of application at Metz, or of committees from the similar schools for the mines and the roads and bridges. The last of these occasions illustrates... 