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Excerpt from Massachusetts Agricultural College, Amherst, Mass
Twenty - five years later, a second great act of Congress established in connection with each college a department of agricultural experimentation, at an annual expenditure of three-fourths of a million dollars. Again three years, and the Hon. Justin S. Morrill, with whom had orig inated the first act, after a careful observance for twenty-eight years of the colleges he had been instrumental in establishing, came forward with a new measure for their endowment, by an annual grant to each one of the same amount, commencing with and increasing each year till the maximum of had been reached, at which figure it was to remain without further increase. This again was divided in Massachusetts, one third being paid to the Institute of Technology and two-thirds to this college. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
