One of the postwar models resembled Jefferson’s College, the land-grant college. In 1862, the federal Morrill Act gave states an opportunity to establish colleges designed to straddle the agrarian and industrial eras. Washington offered each state a grant of thirty thousand acres of land for each senator and representative it had in Congress. The land was to be used or sold to fund at least one college that combined the liberal and practical arts, offering instruction in agriculture and the mechanical arts “without excluding scientific and classical studies and including military tactics”
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