Addresses Delivered at the Massachusetts Agricultural College, June 21st, 1887, on the 25th Anniversary of the Passage of the Morrill Land Grant Act |
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... Mechanic Arts , up- on which , as we all know , the greater number of mankind must rely for their subsistence and happiness , as well as for their growth and reputation among men . The The sciences related to agriculture , tending ...
... Mechanic Arts , up- on which , as we all know , the greater number of mankind must rely for their subsistence and happiness , as well as for their growth and reputation among men . The The sciences related to agriculture , tending ...
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... mechanic when the design comprehended not only instruction for those who may hold the plow or follow a trade , but such instruction as any person might need - with " the world all before them where to choose " —and without the exclusion ...
... mechanic when the design comprehended not only instruction for those who may hold the plow or follow a trade , but such instruction as any person might need - with " the world all before them where to choose " —and without the exclusion ...
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... mechanics , architecture and zoölogy , would be unknown , if not " all Greek , " to most college graduates of fifty years ago ; but since the date of the Land - Grant Colleges , other colleges , endowed with sufficient means , have also ...
... mechanics , architecture and zoölogy , would be unknown , if not " all Greek , " to most college graduates of fifty years ago ; but since the date of the Land - Grant Colleges , other colleges , endowed with sufficient means , have also ...
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... mechanic arts among those apparently destitute of machinery . The treatment of such subjects as mechanics , physics and astronomy , even by Aristotle , was nothing less than a complete failure . They had no idea of the kinship of the ...
... mechanic arts among those apparently destitute of machinery . The treatment of such subjects as mechanics , physics and astronomy , even by Aristotle , was nothing less than a complete failure . They had no idea of the kinship of the ...
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... mechanics to dismiss from their minds a prevailing error that an education in institutions where Greek is a non - essential will to them prove of unequal rank and value to that of institutions where it is kept constantly at the front ...
... mechanics to dismiss from their minds a prevailing error that an education in institutions where Greek is a non - essential will to them prove of unequal rank and value to that of institutions where it is kept constantly at the front ...
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Page 37 - ... that a sum not exceeding ten per centum upon the amount received by any State under the provisions of this act may be expended for the purchase of lands for sites or experimental farms, whenever authorized by the respective legislatures of said States.
Page 36 - 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 40 - Congress, according to the census of 1860, for 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, ... in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions of life.
Page 8 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Page 36 - 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 selected or purchased under the provisions of this act.
Page 36 - State may be entitled under the provisions of this act, land scrip to the amount in acres for the deficiency of its distributive share; said scrip to be sold by said States and the proceeds thereof applied to the uses and purposes prescribed in this act, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever...
Page 37 - That the grant of land and land scrip hereby authorized shall be made on the following conditions, to which, as well as to the provisions hereinbefore contained, the previous assent of the several States shall be signified by legislative acts: First.
Page 36 - 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...
Page 37 - Any State which may take and claim the benefit of the provisions of this act shall provide, within five years, at least not less than one college, as described in the fourth section of this act, or the grant to such State shall cease...
Page 29 - It will not be doubted that with reference either to individual or national welfare, agriculture is of primary importance. In proportion as nations advance in population, and other circumstances of maturity, this truth becomes more apparent, and renders the cultivation of the soil more and more an object of public patronage.