I come from the state of Justin Smith Morrill, a U . S . senator from Vermont who gave America its land grant college system.
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Justin Smith Morrill, US Representative and Senator, known as the chief sponsor and author of the Land Grant College Acts was born in Strafford.
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The Land Grant College Acts ultimately led to the founding of 106 colleges including many state universities, polytechnic colleges, and agricultural and mechanical colleges.
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In 1980s the U . S . Congress designated the College of Micronesia as the Land Grant College of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.
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I can tell you any liberal arts school with a land grant college attached will have interesting cliques form when students from the different schools interact.
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The statutory colleges at Cornell grew out of Cornell's designation in 1865 as New York State's land grant college under the Morrill Act.
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In 1999, the Postal Service issued a 55 cent Great Americans series postage stamp of Morrill to honor his role in establishing the land grant colleges.
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This concept led to the Hatch Act of 1887, which provided federal funding for agricultural experiment stations operated by each state's Land Grant college.
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In 1915, he served as president of the Association of Land Grant Colleges and Universities, capping his WSC presidency that concluded December 31, 1915.
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The state also granted Alcorn three-fifths of the proceeds earned from the sale of of land scrip for agricultural or land grant colleges under federal legislation.
