Auburn University - Glomerata Yearbook (Auburn, AL)

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M College offllellmmel ouneleez' under Land-Grant Act . raii' 39-'W LJ im'f'.5 We I N DO W D E L L 1866-1870 mf lbgfisil, ff HE war over, the college reopened with great urgency and - carried on without adequate funds. The Conference's vari- , ous plans to raise funds and increase enrollments were with- ' out success. For six years, under the presidency of Dr. James D Ferguson Dowell, faculty and students sacrificed and car- ried on. During this time events were pointing toward a solution to the collegeis di- lemma. In 1868 the Alabama Legislature accepted the provisions of the Mor- rill Act, which provided a federal grant for support of a land-grant college in Alabama. The State had funds for support of a college, but none ofa build- ing, the Conference had a college, but no funds to support it. This Auburn transfered to the state as a land-grant college. When the college opened in the fall of 1872, it was in its new role as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama. In this new role Auburn strived to be of service to the people of Alabama by helping them find better ways of living and working. The central purpose of the land-grant college act was: higher education for the industrial classes. This new type of education was not vocational training. It was academic and cultural. The new curricula included many subjects which emphasized good citizenship and the good life. Coordination of the old liberal arts curricula with the new technical scien- tific aims was difficult. It proved an impossible task converting a college of the classical tradition into a genuine agricultural and mechanical college. To dem- onstrate the best methods in agriculture, farms were established at Auburn and in the Tennessee Valley. Dr. William L. Broun was made president in 1882 on the resignation of Dr. Isaac T. Tichenor. His first year showed the difficulty that faced the college in trying to coordinate the old liberal arts and its new scientific-vocational aims.

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