...Jurassic Park (New York: Ballantine Books, 1990). 6. The Morrill Act provided for "the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the...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...

...sponsor, Congressman Justin Morrill of Vermont, the 1862 law provided 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...

...Specifically the act called for any proceeds from the land to be used 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...