INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION IN PRAIRIE STATE 



tion, any state predominantly agricultural. 

 For details here, as in what precedes, I lean 

 heavily upon expert colleagues, whose 

 words I sometimes use. 



The first Merrill bill, so named from its 

 author, the late Justin S. Morrill, of Ver- 

 mont, introduced into the House of Repre- 

 sentatives December 14, 1857, intended 

 donations of land "to the several states and 

 territories which may provide colleges for 

 the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic 

 arts.' 7 Reported adversely and after passage 

 vetoed by President Buchanan, being 

 amended, it again passed Congress and was 

 approved by President Lincoln, July 2, 

 1862. It was for "the endowment, support 

 and maintenance of at least one college (per 

 state) where the leading object shall be 

 . . . to teach such branches of learning 

 as are related to agriculture and mechanic 

 arts ... in order to promote the lib- 

 eral and practical education of the indus- 

 trial classes in the several pursuits and 

 professions of life." All the states and 

 territories in the Union, without a single 



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