The origins of federal support for higher education : George W. Atherton and the land-grant college movement /

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 bein...

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Main Author: Williams, Roger L.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©1991.
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Online Access:CONNECT
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