...periodically. When the first Morrill Act was approved, provision was made for at least one college in every State "Where the leading object shall be, without...agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe * * *." Thus military tactics along with other...

...18C>2." This law provides for: "the endowment, support, and maintenance of at leant one college (in ea<'h State) where the leading object shall be. without:...agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislatures of the states may respectively prescribe, in 'order to nromo'e the liberal and practical...

...of July 2, 1862, certain land and money were donated — to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college (in each State) •where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches...

...of July 2, 1862, certain land and money were donated — to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college (in each State) where the leading object shall he, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach...

...same year, in the midst of the Civil War, President Lincoln approved the Morrill Act, which provided for the support of at least one college in each State where branches of learning relating to agriculture and the mechanical arts should be taught, in addition...

...consummate. In the words of the measure, it provides for "the endowment, support and maintenance of one college in each state where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches...