...which donated 17 million acres of federal land to the states to create colleges "for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts ... in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes." These land-grant colleges, now flourishing state universities,...

...one college where the leading object shall be ... to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts ... in. order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions of life. By authorizing...

...embodied in the Morrill Act of 1862. Its stated purpose is "to teach the branches of learning as related to agriculture and the mechanic arts in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes." Somehow the industrial classes got lost in the evolution...

...where the leading object should be to teach such branches of learning to young adults as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions of life. In addition,...

...excluding other scientific and classical studies ... to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts ... in order...classes in the several pursuits and professions in life."'6 Together with the second Morrill Act of 1890, here was the financial wherewithal for the famous...

...Land-Grant Colleges and Universities to provide for the teaching of such branches of learning "related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, ...in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes [rural Americans and the common nan] in the several pursuits...

...classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, ... in order...classes in the several pursuits and professions in life. 2 Zook Commission: We shall be denying educational opportunity to many young people as long as we maintain...

..."without excluding other scientific or classical studies . . . such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts ... in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes".17 Despite the implicit ambitions to create a gentile...

...classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts ... in order...classes in the several pursuits and professions in life. . . . — Morrill Land-Grant Act, 2 July 1862 Since its enactment in 1 862, the Morrill Land-Grant...

...classical studies and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts ... in order...in the several pursuits and professions in life." The prototype for the 72 land grant colleges and universities would be the Agricultural College of...