| 11. | It re-opened in 1880 as a whites-only Morrill Act land grant college.
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| 12. | Michigan State was a Land Grant college, so courses were taught in agriculture and mechanical arts.
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| 13. | In 1862, the Federal government's Morrill Act provided for land grant colleges in each state.
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| 14. | Morrill is best known for sponsoring the Morrill Act, also known as the Land Grant College Act.
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| 15. | While at Kansas State, Fairchild stepped into an ongoing debate about the role of land grant colleges.
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| 16. | By coincidence, Justin Morrill had once compared the Land Grant colleges to the schools of ancient Sparta.
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| 17. | From 1992 to 2005 he was president of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges.
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| 18. | In 1879, Iowa Agricultural College became the first land grant college to establish a school of veterinary medicine.
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| 19. | The University of New Hampshire was founded and incorporated in 1866, as a land grant college in Durham.
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| 20. | Many of the United States'noted public research universities can trace their origins back to land grant colleges.
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