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institutions were yet in the liquid state. 

 The Federal grant would aid their already 

 existent state universities, or support 

 others. They had the system which could 

 lay hold of the opportunity. Every one 

 of them managed to comply with the terms 

 and lay hold upon the grants. Often they 

 had a hard time complying with the re- 

 quirements fot rhe twenty-five years fol- 

 lowing the war, but they held on. Then 

 the country had filled up. More acres were 

 put under the plow, and all the acres were 

 made more productive. Wealth grew. 

 In the eighties, and still more in the nineties, 

 land grant institutions had developed more 

 highly educated constituencies, and, quite 

 as important, they began to show the people 

 who were engaged in the commercial, manu- 

 facturing, transportation, and agricultural 

 industries, how to make more money. 

 That settled it. Nothing succeeded like 



