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once present a definite plan or request to them. Nothing can 

 be accompHshed without united and positive action, and the 

 apparent lack of interest in the discussion which followed 

 President Jordan's address to the society at Boston seems to 

 indicate that the time is not yet ripe for florists' schools." 



The most important educational movement of the year was 

 the passage of an act by Congress to extend the facilities of 

 colleges of agriculture and mechanic arts which are founded 

 upon the land grant of 1862. This act was approved by the 

 President August 30, 1890. It was introduced by Senator 

 Morrill, of Vermont, to whom the nation also owes the land 

 grant. The document is so important that I append it in full : 



"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 ap- 

 proved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. 



' ' Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 

 the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there 

 shall be, and hereby is, annually appropriated, out of any 

 money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, arising 

 from the sales of public lands, to be paid as hereinafter pro- 

 vided to each State and Territory for the more complete en- 

 dowment and maintenance of colleges for the benefit of agri- 

 culture and the mechanic arts now established, in accordance 

 with an act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hun- 

 dred and sixty-two, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars for the 

 year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and 

 an annual increase of the amount of such appropriation there- 

 after for ten years by an additional sum of one thousand 

 dollars over the preceding year, and the annual amount to 

 be paid thereafter to each State and Territory shall be twenty- 

 five thousand dollars, to be applied only to instruction in agri- 

 culture, the mechanic arts, the English language and various 

 branches of mathematical, physical, natural and economic 

 science, with special reference to their applications in the in- 

 dustries of life, and to the facilities for such instruction: Provi- 

 ded, That no money shall be paid out under this act to any State 

 or Territory for the support or maintenance of a college where 

 a distinction of race or color is made in the admission of stu- 

 dents, but the establishment and maintenance of such colleges 



