Table 2.-Summary Data Showing Scope of Operations of Land-Grant Institutions in Aggregate United States, Year Ended June 30, 19601 Table 2.-Summary Data Showing Scope of Operations of Land-Grant Institutions in Aggregate United States, Year Ended June 30, 19601-Continued Table 2.-Summary Data Showing Scope of Operations of Land-Grant Institutions in Aggregate United States, Year Ended June 30, 19601—Continued Expenditures for scholarships, fellowships, and prizes Graduate credit courses Year Ended June 30, 1960" by George Lind. 1 Advance data. These amounts will be published as totals for more detailed tables in Office of Education publication "Statistics of Land-Grant Colleges and Universities, 35, 093, 775 300 3, 325, 070 67, 438 625 18, 264, 998 144, 541 5, 374, 015 621 13, 933, 747 464, 282 358 56, 016, 491 8, 340, 143 1,796, 758 367, 722 1, 391, 289 15, 801, 398 1, 329, 108 These data show without question that the land-grant institutions are fulfilling the charge Senator Justin W. Morrill put upon them. These colleges are thoroughly American, and for all time will be entrusted with work annually increasing in its importance. Our artisans are to contest with the skill and wealth of many nations, and our farmers are sorely pressed by the competition of agricultural products which cheap and rapid communication pushes to the front in all markets both at home and abroad. To successfully withstand this formidable rivalry, our countrymen need, and it is hoped will here find, that fundamental instruction which is founded on the widest and best experience of mankind. For "to whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required," and the New World has been given to us forever as an inalienable possession, where we are not only to bridge great rivers and tunnel mountains, but to "make the wilderness and solitary places glad." All the centuries of the future are in reserve, under Providence, for the men of this great continent to make their own history, and, it is to be devoutly hoped, in some measure, to eclipse and take the lead of other nations, old or young, in worthy achievements in all the arts of peace, and in all the glories of manhood's ripest culture." 11 From an address by Justin W. Morrill, delivered at the University of Massachusetts in 1887, the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Land-Grant Act-The Centennial Committee of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mass., 1961. p. 10. |