单词 | land-grant-college |
释义 | > as lemmasland-grant-college land-grant-college n. U.S. a college set up originally under the Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862, which donated public lands to certain States for the establishment of colleges of agriculture, etc. ΚΠ 1889 Cent. Mag. Jan. 404/2 The land-grant colleges graduate men fitted to superintend farms and workshops. 1943 J. S. Huxley TVA vi. 30 In 1862..Land Grant Colleges were established—so called because in every State lands were granted from the public domain to endow a College for the teaching of ‘Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts’. 1967 Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 14 Mar. (1970) 498 Federal participation in education is not exactly new, going back as far as 1785 in the Land Ordinance, the land grant colleges of the 1860's [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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