One of the best buildings in colored schools devoted entirely to
teaching agriculture. The school has 35 teachers, about 350 pupils
and property valued at $135,000.
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_Land-Grant Schools_:—The third type of schools supported by public
funds is the Land-Grant Schools. The purpose for which the land-grant
institutions receive Federal appropriations are clearly outlined in the
following extracts from the various congressional acts granting public
lands and making appropriations for their support:
Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1862.—An act donating public lands to the
several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the
benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts.—The leading object shall
be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and
including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are
related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the
legislatures of the State may respectively prescribe, in order to
promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in
the several pursuits and professions in life.
Morrill Act of 1890.—An act to apply a portion of the proceeds of the
public lands to the more complete endowment and support of the colleges
for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts. To be applied only
to instruction in agriculture, the mechanic arts, the English language,
and the various branches of mathematical, physical, natural, and
economic science, with special reference to their applications in the
industries of life, and to the facilities for such instruction.
_Provided_, That in any State in which there has been one college
established in pursuance of the act of July second, eighteen hundred and
sixty-two, and also in which an educational institution of like
character has been established, or may be hereafter established, and is
now aided by such State from its own revenue, for the education of
colored students in agriculture and the mechanic arts, however named or
styled, or whether or not it has received money heretofore under the act
to which this act is an amendment, the legislature of such State may
propose and report to the Secretary of the Interior a just and adequate
division of the fund to be received under this act between one college
for white students and one institution for colored students established
as aforesaid which shall be divided into two parts and paid accordingly,
and thereupon such institution for colored students shall be entitled to
the benefits of this act and subject to its provisions, as much as it
would have been if it had been included under the act of eighteen
hundred and sixty-two, and the fulfillment of the foregoing provisions
shall be taken as a compliance with the provision in reference to
separate colleges for white and colored students.
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ADMINISTRATION BUILDING. MECHANICAL BUILDING.
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