Agriculture and Natural Resources, Institute of (IANR)
Date of this Version
2003
Abstract
*When the Morrill Act was passed in 1862, creating the land-grant university system which includes our own University of Nebraska, part of the language of the bill read: " ... 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 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.
Comments
Delivered Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2003 at "Wake Dance" statue site, East Campus, Lincoln.