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fé   the colleges and universities are C0¤Cerned that _
  they not lose sight of the individuals
’ V¤ in the crowd. They 3FG 21iSO worried Hbout costs;
  every extra student adds to their linancial deficits.
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i simply pass along knowledge gained in Europe; they their professors, they were building a uniquely American A
{ began to make significant contributions themselves. tradition of higher education which has continued to
1 < Another spectacular change began at about the same this day.
Z       time. With the rowth of science, a riculture—until
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V V;   then a relativelyV simple art——became increasingly com- UR uSpimtiOVVSV us 3 HLVVVOVL have never bm
5   , plex. ln the 1850 sa number ofinstitutions were founded . .
i ; · . . . . . higher. Our need for educational excellence has
, . to train people lor it, but most of them failed to survive.
  : l . . . never been greater. But never have the challenges
_ , j   V ln 1862, however, in the darkest hours of the Civil been VIS Shu as the PUC in l958
i l i i A War, Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Land-Grant ` ° p . .y ° .` .
* i 1. . . Look at California, for one view of American edu-
‘ l-.· Act, offering each state public lands and support for . , . . _ ,,
  . . cation s roblems and 0 ortunit1es——and for a view of   »,
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, if i at least one college to teach agriculture and the mechanic . . . . . .—_
l i   . . imaginative and daring action, as well.   ,-
, · ;< 1 arts. Thus was the foundation laid for the U. S. state- . . . . _  
$.-1 _ . . __ . ,, . Nowhere is the public appetite for higher education ·\. ·a
. t i university system. ln all the annals of republics, said . . . ·»· 3
 .;   l . . . . . . more avid, the need for highly trained men and women ·
M  i .   » Andrew D. White, the hrst president of one institution .
. a T , . . ,_ . more clear, the ressure of o ulation more acute. Ina
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i - founded under the act, Cornell University, there is no . . . ,
· ; l q · . .. . . . recent four-year period during which the countrys
i · more sigmticant utterance of conhdence in national . . . ,  _
;   . . . . ,, population rose 7.5 per cent, Cahfornias rose some ~
; A destiny, out from the midst of national calamity. . . . .  
‘ , ~» 17.6 per cent. CL1ili`O1“lllZlllS—jWllii a resoluteness which  {QV,.-.,y_
; j { · is, unfortunately, not typical of the nation as a whole-   CZ
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