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... favor of such action . The project for a national university was revived in 1806 when Jefferson was President . Madison was in his Cabinet , and Samuel Latham Mitchill was " one of his strongest supporters in Congress . " Interest in ...
... favor of such action . The project for a national university was revived in 1806 when Jefferson was President . Madison was in his Cabinet , and Samuel Latham Mitchill was " one of his strongest supporters in Congress . " Interest in ...
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... favor of an agricultural college was carried on . Largely to promote this movement , in which he was deeply inter- ested , Marshall P. Wilder ( fig . 5 ) at a meeting of the trustees of the Norfolk Agricultural Society , of which he was ...
... favor of an agricultural college was carried on . Largely to promote this movement , in which he was deeply inter- ested , Marshall P. Wilder ( fig . 5 ) at a meeting of the trustees of the Norfolk Agricultural Society , of which he was ...
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... favor of calling public attention to the importance of having lectures on agriculture in courses by lyceums and similar associations in rural districts . At the fifth meeting , January 12 , 1853 , the first committee reported with ...
... favor of calling public attention to the importance of having lectures on agriculture in courses by lyceums and similar associations in rural districts . At the fifth meeting , January 12 , 1853 , the first committee reported with ...
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... favor of vocational education in any line in the secondary schools was little in evidence . There were practically no trained teachers of agriculture to be had and the limited literature of this subject was ill adapted for use in ...
... favor of vocational education in any line in the secondary schools was little in evidence . There were practically no trained teachers of agriculture to be had and the limited literature of this subject was ill adapted for use in ...
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... favor of an agricultural college ( 280 ) . It also agreed that a me- chanical school or college would be a good thing but did not favor its attachment to an agricultural college . The mechanical college should be in a large city or ...
... favor of an agricultural college ( 280 ) . It also agreed that a me- chanical school or college would be a good thing but did not favor its attachment to an agricultural college . The mechanical college should be in a large city or ...
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Page 204 - Agriculture, the general designs and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants.
Page 100 - ... without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life.
Page 100 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts...
Page 100 - ... shall constitute a perpetual fund, the capital of which shall remain forever undiminished (except so far as may be provided in section fifth of this act) and the interest of which shall be inviolably appropriated by each State which may take and claim the benefit of this act to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college...
Page 100 - If any portion of the fund invested, as provided by the foregoing section, or any portion of the interest thereon, shall, by any action or contingency, be diminished or lost, it shall be replaced by the State to which it belongs, so that the capital of the fund shall remain forever undiminished...
Page 204 - ... effects on crops of different kinds; the adaptation and value of grasses and forage plants; the composition and digestibility of the different kinds of...
Page 100 - No portion of said fund, nor the interest thereon, shall be applied, directly or indirectly, under any pretense whatever, to the purchase, erection, preservation, or repair of any building or buildings.
Page 100 - Fourth. An annual report shall be made regarding the progress of each college, recording any improvements and experiments made, with their cost and results, and such other matters, including State industrial and economical statistics, as may be supposed useful...
Page 99 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be granted to the several States, for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, an amount of public land, to be apportioned to each State a quantity equal to thirty thousand acres for each Senator and Representative in Congress to which the States are respectively entitled by the apportionment under the census of eighteen hundred and sixty: Provided, That no mineral lands shall be...
Page 74 - The proceeds of all lands that have been, or may hereafter be granted by the United States to the State for the support of a University, shall be and remain a perpetual fund, to be called