PROCEEDINGS OF THE SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES AND EXPERIMENT STATIONS

By WILLIAM THOMAS

CONTENTS INTRODUCTION: RECONSIDERING THE ORIGINS AND EARLY YEARS OF THE LAND-­GRANT COLLEGES 1 EXPERIMENTATION IN ANTEBELLUM HIGHER EDUCATION 2 JUSTIN MORRILL, THE LAND-­GRANT ACT OF 1862, AND THE BIRTH OF THE LAND-­GRANT COLLEGES 3 THE LAND-­GRANT REFORMATION 4 THE NEW ­MIDDLE CLASS AND THE STATE COLLEGE IDEAL 5 PROGRESSIVISM AND THE RISE OF EXTENSION 6 COEDUCATION AND LAND-­GRANT ­WOMEN CONCLUSION: LAND-­GRANT MEMORIES, LEGACIES, AND HORIZONS NOTES