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Cross,
Coy F., II
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Justin Smith
Morrill: Father of the Land-Grant Colleges
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East
Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1999
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A
rather brief (147 pages of text), but competent biography of the man best
known as the father of the land grant university system in America. That
element in Justin Smith Morrill's life receives sound treatment in Chapter
5, "Morrill's Monument: The Land-Grant College Act." Biographer
Coy F. Cross II refutes those who have argued that others actually wrote
the Morrill Act, giving clear ownership of the act to Morrill, although, of
course, others had voiced similar proposals.
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Memorial Addresses
on the Life and Character of Justin S. Morrill
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Washington:
Government Printing Office, 1899
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Speeches
compiled from the congressional record.
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The Land-Grant
Tradition
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Washington:
National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, 1994
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Includes
a useful chronology, as well as the text of the Morrill Act and amendments.
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Parker,
William Belmont
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The Life and Public
Services of Justin Smith Morrill
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Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, 1924
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This
generally adulatory biography covers the entirety of Morrill's public career,
which lasted until his death in 1899.
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Songe, Alice H.
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The Land-Grant Idea
in American Higher Education: A Guide to Information Sources
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New
York: K.G. Saur, 1980
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Nevins,
Allan
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The Origins of the Land-Grant Colleges and State
Universities
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Washington:
Civil War Centennial Commission, 1962
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Concise
treatment, with rhetorical flourish, by a great American historian.
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Ross,
Earle D.
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Democracy’s College:
The Land-Grant Movement in the Formative Stage
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Ames:
Iowa State University Press, 1942
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This
is still the classic historical work, composed at a time when name changes
seemed to be indicating, to some detractors, a shift in the historical
mission of the land-grant colleges.
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Anderson,
G. Lester
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Land-Grant
Universities and Their Continuing Challenge
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East
Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1976
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See
especially the essay by Maxwell H. Goldberg, "Liberal Learning and the
Land-Grant System," pp. 132-59, which includes the concept of tension
and a dialectic between the liberal arts and the practical and professional
fields, leading to the model of cooperation by unlike schools to address
societal issues.
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James,
Edmund J.
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The Origin of the
Land Grant Act of 1862
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Urbana-Champaign:
University of Illinois, University Studies 4, 1910
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Intended
to bring to light the Illinois origins of the main tenets of the Morrill
Act, this bulletin is particularly valuable for primary documents
explicating the views of Turner on industrial education, including his
peculiar conception of "liberal" education.
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Hunter,
William C.
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Beacon Across the
Prairie: North Dakota’s Land-Grant College
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Fargo:
North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies, 1961
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Colman,
Gould P.
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Education &
Agriculture: A History of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell
University
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Ithaca:
Cornell University, 1963
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John,
Walton C., Ed.
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Land-Grant
College Education, 1910 to 1920, Part 1: History and Educational Objectives
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U.S.
Department of the Interior, Bureau of Education Bulletin No. 30, 1924
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A
review of legislation and mission of the land-grant colleges; the
introductory bulletin to a series of five that comprises the various
branches of knowledge as treated in the land-grant institutions. (See entry
for Part 2, on the liberal arts, below.)
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John,
Walton C., Ed.
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Land-Grant
College Education, 1910 to 1920, Part IV: Engineering and Mechanic Arts
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U.S.
Department of the Interior, Bureau of Education Bulletin No. 37, 1925
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See
especially pp. 1- 7, George F. Zook, "The
Liberal Arts in Relation to the Land-Grant Colleges." This essay
develops the role of the liberal arts as general education for
"cultural appreciation and citizenship education."
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True,
Alfred Charles
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A
History of Agricultural Education in the United States, 1785-1925
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U.S.
Dept. Ag., Misc. Pub. 36 (1929
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Although
not exclusively concerned with the land-grant universities, True's
compendium lays emphasis on them, sketching their origins and context,
detailing their development in the individual states.
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Waugh,
Frank A
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The
Agricultural College: A Study in Organization and Management and Especially
in Problems of Teaching
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New
York: Orange Judd Co., 1916
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An
extended essay, with especially notable sections on the curriculum and on
methods of teaching.
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