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National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, Washington, DC. – 1995
This publication is a source of basic information about the history and current workings of the land-grant university system. The first section briefly describes the nature of land grant universities as institutions that have been designated by state legislatures or Congress to receive the benefits of the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890. Their…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Legislation, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation
John, Walton C. Ed. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1925
At the beginning of the decennium 1910-1920 specialized courses in home economics were maintained in the land-grant institutions in the New England states, except Massachusetts, and Connecticut; in New York, at Cornell University; in Pennsylvania at Pennsylvania State College, and all of the states north of the Ohio River and west of the Allegheny…
Descriptors: Females, College Graduates, Child Welfare, Land Grant Universities