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	2004 Justin Smith Morrill Lecture
		In the year of its passage, 1862, Morrill said of the land-grant act: “It is a measure that should have been initiated at least a quarter-century ago.
		It was not the Morrill Act of 1862 alone that brought sweeping change to the American educational landscape.
		Morrill’s vision from the 19th century, powerful as it has been, must be adapted, reinvigorated and reconceptualized for the 21st century.
	www.csrees.usda.gov /about/speeches/04_morrill.html (3613 words)

	Land Grant Information * Events
		The original mission of these institutions, as set forth in the first Morrill Act, was to teach agriculture, military tactics, and the mechanical arts as well as classical studies so that members of the working classes could obtain a liberal, practical education.
		The first Morrill Act provided grants in the form of federal lands to each state for the establishment of a public institution to fulfill the act's provisions.
		Morrill’s bill was designed to donate federal land (30,000 acres) to each state and territory as an endowment.
	www.ifas.ufl.edu /ls_grant/whatislg.htm (1814 words)

	Morrill Act: Primary Documents of American History (Virtual Programs & Services, Library of Congress)
		Officially titled "An Act Donating Public Lands to the Several States and Territories which may provide Colleges for the Benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts," the Morrill Act provided each state with 30,000 acres of Federal land for each member in their Congressional delegation.
		The Senate passed the Morrill Act by a vote of 32 to 7 on June 10, 1862.
		The House of Representatives passed this act by a vote of 90 to 25 on June 17, 1862.
	www.loc.gov /rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Morrill.html (441 words)

	Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Morrill Act was first proposed by Representative Justin Smith Morrill of Vermont, in 1857, and was passed by Congress, in 1859, but it was vetoed by President James Buchanan.
		Under the act, each eligible state received a total of 30,000 acres (121 km²) of federal land, either within or contiguous to its boundaries, for each member of congress the state had as of the census of 1860.
		Under provision six of the Act, "No State while in a condition of rebellion or insurrection against the government of the United States shall be entitled to the benefit of this act," in reference to the recent American Civil War.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Morrill_Act_of_1862 (601 words)

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		The Morrill Act of 1862 was also known as the Land Grant College Act.
		This situation was rectified when the Second Morrill Act was passed and expanded the system of grants to include fl institutions.
		The Morrill Act changed the face of education and made room for our growing and ever changing country and ensured that there would always be money to finance educational facilities and that there would be continual government support of these institutions.
	www.nd.edu /~rbarger/www7/morrill.html (390 words)

	1890
		Morrill was born in 1810 at Strafford, Vermont.
		Morrill was an early Republican and was elected by the Vermont legislature in 1866 to the Senate where he served until his death in 1898.
		This is because in 1862 the Civil War was raging and the South, the center of the fl population, was not involved in the debate.
	www.tandl.vt.edu /socialstudies/hicks/cjohnsto/1890.htm (7433 words)

	Cooperative Extension and the 1890 Land-Grant Institution: The Real Story
		The Morrill Act provided grants for land to states for the establishment and maintenance of at least one college where the leading objective was teaching agriculture, mechanic arts, and military tactics.
		The charge and purpose of the 1862 Morrill Act was to democratize higher education and establish institutions for educating Americans.
		In 1890, the second Morrill Act was passed as a result of economic, social, and political issues in the postwar reconstruction era.
	www.joe.org /joe/2006june/a4.shtml (2773 words)

	1890 Land-Grant History
		In 1862, the United States Congress passed the first Morrill Act which provided for the establishment of a Land-Grant institution in each state to educate citizens in the fields of Agriculture, Home Economics, the Mechanic Arts, and other useful professions.
		In the South, under the races, the Negro was not permitted to attend the institutions first established under the Morrill Act of 1862.
		Even with the enactment of the Morrill Act of 1862, the Federal government was unable to gain cooperation from the Southern States in the provision of land-grant support to the Negro institutions.
	www.umes.edu /fdl/new_page_4.htm (344 words)

	UNL \| College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources
		Justin Smith Morrill authored the Morrill Act in 1862, establishing Land Grant universities across the nation.
		Justin S. Morrill (1810-1898) was the chief sponsor of the 1862 and 1890 Land-Grant Acts.
		Morrill's 1862 Land-Grant Act, followed by the second Act in 1890, allocated the funds from the sale of federal lands to support new Land-Grant colleges and universities that taught agriculture, business, engineering, mechanics and home economics.
	casnr.unl.edu /jsmorrill (455 words)

	Land-Grant and Sea-Grant Information
		AN ACT To apply a portion of the proceeds of the public lands to the more complete endowment and support of the colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts established under the provisions of an act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two.
		An act to provide for cooperative agricultural extension work between the agricultural colleges in the several States receiving the benefits of an Act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and the Acts supplementary thereto, and the United States Department of Agriculture.
		An act authorizing the establishment and operation of sea grant colleges and programs by initiating and supporting programs of education and research in the various fields relating to the development of marine resources, and for other purposes.
	www.ifas.ufl.edu /ls_grant/index.htm (1053 words)

	Doctoral Comprehensive Exam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		A college that would benefit from the provisions of the Morrill Act of 1862 was certain to be of a very different nature from that of its classical cousin built upon the Yale Report of 1828.
		In short, "the Morrill Acts were unquestionably the most important actions taken by the federal government in the field of higher education in the whole of the nineteenth century" (Brubacher and Rudy, 1976, p.
		Gilman acted quickly to raid other institutions for German-trained professors who were stifled in their current workplaces, due to the lack of either academic freedom or suitable research facilities.
	campus.northpark.edu /esl/doctoral.html (16501 words)

	First Morrill Act
		Sec.7.(15) And be it further enacted, That the land officers shall received the same fees for locating land scrip issued under the provisions of this act as is now allowed for the location of military bounty land warrants under existing laws: Provided, their maximum compensation shall not be thereby increased.
		Any exchange authorized by the first section of this Act shall be made in accordance with the applicable provisions of section 7 or the Act of March 1, 1911, commonly referred to as the Weeks Law (16 U.S.C., sec.
		Any land conveyed to the State of Missouri under authority of this Act shall, upon acceptance of such conveyance by such State, be held and considered to be granted to such State subject to the provisions of the Act of July 2, 1862, referred to in the first section of this Act."
	www.higher-ed.org /resources/morrill1.htm (886 words)

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		The legislative history of the Second Morrill Act suggests that Congress believed that the appropriated funds would in fact be used to supplement the funds available to the land-grant colleges and departments that had been established by the states pursuant to the First Morrill Act.
		The Second Morrill Act's (invalid) racial segregation proviso deemed the establishment of institutions for "colored students" to be compliance with the proviso that forbade discrimination in the admission of students based on race or color.
		In their document, Atherton and Alvord interpreted the second Morrill Act as a "supplement to the Act of 1862." They were careful to note that the latter act applied only to institutions designated by their state legislatures to receive funds from the original act.
	www.usdoj.gov /olc/reconsid.htm (10235 words)

	Act of 1862 Donating Lands for Colleges Of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts
		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.
		And be it further enacted, That land scrip issued under the provisions of this act shall not be subject to location until after the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
		And be it further enacted, That the land officers shall receive the same fees for locating land scrip issued under the provisions of this act as is now allowed for the location of military bounty land warrants under existing laws; Provided, That their maximum compensation shall not be thereby increased.
	www.dafvm.msstate.edu /laws/morrillact.html (358 words)

	PBPB \| Public Broadcasting PolicyBase
		One hundred years later, another President and Congress acted to ensure that a portion of one of the nation's most valuable assets would be dedicated to the advancement of education, for the benefit of the nation, her economy, and the welfare of all of her people.
		Like the Morrill Act of 1862, the Educational Television Facilities Act of 1962 and its successor Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 have resulted in the establishment of dozens of new institutions across the country dedicated to broad public education.
		The Morrill Act not only encouraged the establishment of new educational institutions; it contributed a valuable asset toward the endowment of those institutions and thus toward an assurance of their continuing capacity to extend and enlarge their benefit to the public.
	www.current.org /pbpb/articles/morrillgunnpaper.html (2180 words)

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		The Morrill Act was intended to provide a broad segment of the population with a practical education that had direct relevance to their daily lives.
		The Act of 1862 proposed a system of broad education by colleges, not limited to a superficial and dwarfed training, such as might be supplied by a foreman of a workshop or by a foreman of an experimental farm.
		The federal support contemplated in the initial Morrill Act was to be the income from public lands (30,000 acres or equivalent in scrip for each representative and senator) made available to each state.
	www.wvu.edu /~exten/about/land.htm (3169 words)

	IMPACT-History and Philosophy of Extension
		The first of those was the Morrill Act of 1862, which created the land-grant university system.
		When the Morrill Act was passed, few people could have guessed its impact on the nation.
		Passed in 1887, the Hatch Act authorized establishment of agricultural experiment stations to expand research capabilities of the land-grant universities.
	muextension.missouri.edu /extcouncil/Impacts/9.htm (926 words)

	NASULGC: The Land-Grant Tradition Morrill Act (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		No State shall be entitled to the benefits of this act unless it shall express its acceptance thereof by its legislature within two years from the date of its approval by the President.
		Military tactics—An agricultural college which offers a proper, substantial course in military tactics complies sufficiently with the requirements as to military tactics in the act of July 2, 1862, and the other acts, even though the students at that institution are not compelled to take that course.
		1281) is supplementary to the act of 1862; therefore any default of the provisions of the act of 1862 renders the State liable for noncertification for the annual installments of the funds appropriated by the acts of 1890 and 1907.
	www.nasulgc.org /publications/Land_Grant/LGTrad_FirstMorrillAct.htm (617 words)

	First Morrill Act
		The University of the District of Columbia was included as a land-grant college by the District of Columbia Public Postsecondary Education Reorganization Act of October 26, 1974, Public Law 93-471, section 208, 88 Stat.
		3.Any land conveyed to the State of Missouri under authority of this Act shall, upon acceptance of such conveyance by such State, be held and considered to be granted to such State subject to the provisions of the Act of July 2, 1862, referred to in the first section of this Act.".
		(11) Authority for free mail was repealed by the Act of March 3, 1873, which provided in part: "That all laws and parts of laws permitting the transmission by mail of any free matter whatever be, and the same are hereby, repealed from and after June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three.".
	www.csrees.usda.gov /about/offices/legis/morrill.html (988 words)

	Shrine to Justin Smith Morrill
		The genius of the Morrill Act was two-fold, in accord with its two governing principles: the equality of opportunity, and the utility of knowledge.
		The web is full of references to Justin Morrill and the Morrill Act, but if you want to get a handle on the state of the land-grant tradition, the best place to start is with the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges.
		Intended to bring to light the Illinois origins of the main tenets of the Morrill Act, this bulletin is particularly valuable for primary documents explicating the views of Turner on industrial education, including his peculiar conception of "liberal" education.
	www.ndsu.nodak.edu /instruct/isern/morrill.htm (1335 words)

	NASULGC: Land-Grant Tradition 1890 Morrill Act (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Expenditures from the funds provided by the act of March 4, 1907, are not authorized "for general courses in pedagogy, psychology, history of education, and methods of teaching." —Rulings of Secretary of the Interior, November 2, 1911, and May 23, 1916.
		The fact of segregation itself does not affect the designated institution's rights and obligations, and Morrill Act funds are specifically available only to institutions established "in accordance with" the conditions of the 1862 enactment.
		The legislative history and the recorded interpretations of the Acts also enforce the conclusion that there is no legal basis for a failure to require a substantial course in military tactics to be offered by Negro institutions participating in grants under all or any of the four Acts of Congress noted above.
	www.nasulgc.org /publications/Land_Grant/1890_Act.htm (1513 words)

	Morrill Hall: Iowa State University
		The building memorializes Senator Justin Smith Morrill, author of the historic 1862 Morrill Act that established the land-grant university system and philosophy of opportunity and access.
		Morrill Hall is an important historic symbol of Iowa State's land-grant legacy and mission that, with this project, will directly benefit students and enhance an Iowa State education with innovative programs.
		Morrill Hall's renovation will provide academic resources to students and faculty and help Iowa State recruit outstanding graduate students and faculty who are interested in effective teaching methods.
	www.iastate.edu /morrill/02/faq.shtml (535 words)

	BACKGROUNDER ON THE MORRILL ACT
		The Homestead Act permitted any citizen, or any person who intended to become a citizen, to receive 160 acres of public land, and then to purchase it at a nominal fee after living on the land for five years.
		Just as important was the Morrill Act of that year, which made it possible for the new western states to establish colleges for their citizens.
		Sponsored by Congressman Justin Morrill of Vermont, who had been pressing for it since 1857, the act gave to every state that had remained in the Union a grant of 30,000 acres of public land for every member of its congressional delegation.
	usinfo.state.gov /usa/infousa/facts/democrac/27.htm (454 words)

	Morrill Act, 1862
		Passed on July 2, 1862, this act made it possible for new western states to establish colleges for their citizens.
		The Morrill Act committed the Federal Government to grant each state 30,000 acres of public land issued in the form ofland scri certificates for each of its Representatives and Senators in Congress.
		Citation: Act of July 2, 1862 (Morrill Act), Public Law 37-108, which established land grant colleges, 07/02/1862; Enrolled Acts and Resolutions of Congress, 1789-1996; Record Group 11; General Records of the United States Government; National Archives.
	www.classbrain.com /artteenst/publish/article_125.shtml (1405 words)

	ROTC Award Program
		Under the act, each eligible state received a total of 30,000 acres of federal land, either within or contiguous to its boundaries, for each member of congress the state had as of the census of 1860.
		Under provision six of the Act, "No State while in a condition of rebellion or insurrection against the government of the United States shall be entitled to the benefit of this act," in reference to the recent Civil War.
		Among the seventy colleges and universities which eventually evolved from the Morrill Acts are several of today's Historically Black colleges and universities.
	suvcw.org /ROTC.htm (920 words)

	Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station - About Us
		The Morrill Act of 1862 provided for public higher education by establishing colleges in every state and territory endowed through grants of public lands -- thus, land grant institutions.
		The Morrill Act is signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln, establishing a national system of Colleges, devoted to agriculture and the mechanic arts and partially funded by federal land grants.
		The second Morrill Act becomes law, providing additional federal funding for the land-grant Colleges and establishing institutions of this kind for fl students in southern states.
	www.colostate.edu /Dept/AES/aboutus.html (1807 words)

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