Author: James S. MorrillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislators
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Justin Smith Morrill
Author: James S. MorrillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislators
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Justin Smith Morrill: Centenary Exercises Celebrated by the State of Vermont, at Montpelier, April Fourteenth, Nineteen Hundred and Ten, in
Author: James S. MorrillPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781378017296
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
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Justin Smith Morrill
Author: Coy F. Cross IIPublisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 0870139053
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Smith Morrill: Almost every land-grant college or university in the United States has a building named for him; but are his contributions truly recognized and understood? Here is the first biography on this renowned statesman in six decades. Representative and then senator from Vermont, Morrill began his tenure in Congress in 1855 and served continuously for forty-three years. His thirty- one years in the upper chamber alone earned him the title "Father of the Senate." Coy F. Cross reveals a complex and influential political figure who, as chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, and then the Senate Finance Committee, influenced American economic policy for nearly fifty years. Morrill's most-recognized achievements are the pieces of legislation that bear his name: the Morrill land-grant college acts of 1862 and 1890. His legacy, inspired by the Jeffersonian ideal of an educated electorate, revolutionized American higher education. Prior to this legislation, colleges and universities were open primarily to affluent white men and studies were limited largely to medicine, theology, and philosophy. Morrill's land-grant acts eventually opened American higher education to the working class, women, minorities, and immigrants. Since 1862, more than 20 million people have graduated from the 104 land-grant colleges and universities spawned by his grand vision. In this long-overdue study, Cross shows the "Father of Land-Grant Colleges" to be one of America's formative nineteenth- century political figures.
Annual Report of the American Historical Association
Author: American Historical AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
Writings on American History
Author: The Land-Grant Colleges and the Reshaping of American Higher Education
Author: Roger L. GeigerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351480308
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
This work provides a critical reexamination of the origin and development of America's land-grant colleges and universities, created by the most important piece of legislation in higher education. The story is divided into five parts that provide closer examinations of representative developments.Part I describes the connection between agricultural research and American colleges. Part II shows that the responsibility of defining and implementing the land-grant act fell to the states, which produced a variety of institutions in the nineteenth century. Part III details the first phase of the conflict during the latter decades of the nineteenth century about whether land colleges were intended to be agricultural colleges, or full academic institutions. Part IV focuses on the fact that full-fledged universities became dominant institutions of American higher education. The final part shows that the land-grant mission is alive and well in university colleges of agriculture and, in fact, is inherent to their identity.Including some of the best minds the field has to offer, this volume follows in the fine tradition of past books in Transaction's Perspectives on the History of Higher Education series.
The Land-grant Colleges
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : State universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Text of the Land Grant act passed July 2, 1862.
Titans of the Soil
Author: Edward Jerome DiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Monthly Check-list of State Publications
Author: Library of Congress. Division of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Monthly List of State Publications
Author: Library of Congress. Division of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 922
Book Description