INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION IN PRAIRIE STATE 



provisions of an act of Congress approved 

 July 2, 1862," each of the states became en- 

 titled to $15,000 for the United States fiscal 

 year ending June 30, 1890, $16,000 for the 

 next fiscal year, $17,000 the next, and so on, 

 the sum increasing $1,000 a year till it 

 reached $25,000, which was to be thereafter 

 the annual appropriation. This second 

 Morrill act has the same object as the first, 

 to further "instruction in agriculture, the 

 mechanic arts, the English language, and 

 the various branches of mathematical, phys- 

 ical, natural and economic science." 



These noble laws, the most influential 

 educational legislation in all history, were 

 passed in an avowed utilitarian interest. 

 They, of course, meant no hostility to per- 

 sonal culture; indeed, beyond question, 

 sought to promote that, as they have actually 

 done. But this was incidental, their central 

 purpose being to secure better returns from 

 shops, fields, pastures, flocks and herds, to 

 make easier and more successful the com- 

 mon man's efforts to get a good living 

 nothing gross or low, still a thought very 



