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which kept it to themselves. They were 

 bound to build up new states to rival the 

 old ones, and they realized that a compre- 

 hensive educational system was the only 

 corner stone which such a new State could 

 have. If they had little to do with, they 

 were at least fortunate in the fact that there 

 was nothing in the way. Even public uni- 

 versities were established in all of the newer 

 states. The people laid the foundations of 

 comprehensive educational systems, and 

 crowned the systems with public univer- 

 sities. The potential power of all this has 

 not been realized until the coming of wealth 

 within the last twenty-five years. 



Forty-six years ago the general govern- 

 ment provided a gift of thirty thousand 

 acres of land to each state for each senator 

 and representative in Congress, upon con- 

 dition that the state would use the proceeds 

 for the propagation of a university which, 



