The Origins of Federal Support for Higher Education : : George W. Atherton and the Land-Grant College Movement / / Roger L. Williams.
The Origins of Federal Support for Higher Education revises the traditional interpretation of the land-grant college movement, whose institutions were brought into being by the 1862 Morrill Act to provide for ";the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes."; Rather than be...
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©1991 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (284 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations and Credits
- Preface
- 1 A New Interpretation
- 2 The Land-Grant Movement's First Fifty Years
- 3 A New Advocate Emerges
- 4 The Hatch Act and "the Association" the Association"
- 5 The Second Morrill Act
- 6 The Association and the Emerging Federal Relationship
- 7 The Atherton Legacy
- Appendix: "Memoranda as to George W. Atherton"
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index