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THE MORRILL ACT of 1862, establishing land grant colleges, swung wide the doors of higher education for the sons and daughters of mechanics, farmers and merchants — doors which had been closed to all but the children of wealth. Too long the exclusive province of the ministry, medicine and law, education at last made room for research and tion in agriculture, industry, commerce and home economics. ;onditions could hardly have been less favorable in I 863 when Kansas State College was founded at Manhattan. The plow had broken the plains, and the settlers were striving Id a permanent agriculture on soil which yielded little to farming practices evolved in wetteT ImTa+es J ansas lacked moisture, and Kansans lacked knowledge. But there was e of energyTTmtra+ivgjand intelligence to apply to these problems. ns saw the college as a service center to the state. It would provide resident in agriculture and the mechanic arts, and promote the liberal and practical of the industrial classes, as provided for in the Morrill Act. More important their children how to make a living, the college would teach them how to live. ision hasten realized. The role of the citizen in a free society is learned in sroom and through participation in student government and in campus organiza- socialghac es necessafy o goocWi flg are developed in campus organizations, nd associations. Through athletics and intramurals, students learn the give- competition, and oevelop poise ana grace. more than this, the college catties its benefits directly to the people of the State e extension service and throughl+s speakers ' bureau. Discoveries through the fields of agriculture, engineering home economics, education, physics stry are immediately available to State and federal agencies, to industry, to groups throughout the State, and to interested citizens. farms, better roads, better industry, better schools, better homes, better — these are the tangibles Kansas State College has given Kansc
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