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ORTY years ago, a thoughtful, fa r- sighted man of keen observation, anticipat- ing the needs of our future great common- wealth and guided by the examples of var- ious older states, pre- pared the bill creating the Agricultural Col- lege of Utah. He in- troduced the bill into lE7'I3UIll1Z7 Wilson Sau- borzz, First Presitlvfll of flu' College lished colleges had to work toward their own advancement and col- lectively they had to work toward the realizing of a perfect system of united agricultural col- leges with experiment stations that would Maid in acquiring and diffus- sing among the people of the United States useful and practical informa- tion on subjects connect- ed with agriculture, and promote scientinc inves- tigation and experiment .411 lfarly l'lll ZL'17ff:UllL',ft' Hill the legislature and watched it carefully until it was passed and signed by Caleb West, Governor of the Territory. Anthon H. Lund was the wise father of this Act of Establishment. With the help of his personal associates and by the efforts of supporters in the legislature, Lund was able to take advantage of plans formulated a quarter of a century earlier by other far-seeing men who realized a national need for agricultural education. Senator justin P. Mor- rill of Vermont was one of these men. ln 1857 he had succeeded in getting through the national congress a bill providing land grants for the support of agricultural colleges. On his first attempt, the bill had been vetoed because those to whom he appealed could not sense the need for such a plan, but Morrill did not give up his desire to win for an agricultural country, advantages that would insure more rapid development in the future. lle carried his Hght on to succeeding congresses and in 1862, during the pressing time of the Civil War, his bill was recognized and approved by Abraham Lincoln, whose signature upon it made it a law. This national attempt toward agricultural education was an experiment, the success of which depended entirely upon how the states and territories would support it. Singly, the various estab- The First Faculty
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