Download or read book The Old Guard; The Famous "Faculty of Four;" The Mission and Future of the College; Its Debt to Amherst College, Harvard College and Other Institutions written by William Henry Bowker and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-01-11 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Old Guard; The Famous "Faculty of Four;" The Mission and Future of the College; Its Debt to Amherst College, Harvard College and Other Institutions: Read at the Fortieth Anniversary of the Opening of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, Oct. 2, 1871 As President Hitchcock's report was published broadcast, it is more than likely that Senator Morrill of Vermont read that report, and perhaps gained from it the inspiration which led him to introduce into Congress in 1857 a bill requesting that public lands be donated to each State which provides colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts. Consideration of this bill was postponed because of the civil war, but it was finally enacted in 1862; and to it we owe the great, democratic land - grant colleges of this country, such as Cornell University and the universities of Iowa, Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin, in fact, we have one in every northern State. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.