Table 1.-Federal Funds Received by the Land-Grant Institutions for Instruction and Facilities for Instruction Through the First Morrill Act of 1862 and Later Acts Supplementary Thereto, Administered Through the Department of Interior 1873 to 1938, Federal Security Agency 1939 to 1953, and Department of Health, Education, and Welfare 1953 to 1962, by Fiscal Years

1 Federal endowment, invested by the States. The income only is used. Continuing appropriations, $50,000 to each State and Puerto Rico.

Depend upon annual appropriations by Congress. Allocated in varying amounts in proportion to

population.

Chronologies of Institutions by States

There was no uniform pattern in the designation or establishment of the institutions to benefit from the provisions of either the First Morrill Act of 1862 or the Second Morrill Act of 1890. In some States an institution already in operation was chosen; in others, new institutions were established. Sometimes it took considerable time to make the necessary arrangements for an institution even after the legislature had accepted the provisions of the acts. In a few States a comparatively long time elapsed between establishment and opening for instruction, or between opening for instruction and the granting of degrees. This variation among the States is evident in the following brief chronologies.

Alabama

Auburn University

Auburn

1856

1860

1867

1868

1870

1872

Legislature chartered East Alabama Male College at Auburn
First class of students graduated

State legislature accepted provisions of Morrill Act of 1862; entitled
to 240,000 acres in scrip (February 13)
Acceptance reaffirmed in State constitution (December 31)
Master's degrees first awarded

State accepted gift of Eastern Alabama Male College at Auburn
from Methodist Church (February 26)

State legislature authorized Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical
College and absorbed Eastern Alabama Male College (March 20)
First class graduated from new institution

s Sources of data, in addition to official records and documents on file in the Office of Education and the catalogs of the individual institutions:

American Universities and Colleges, Eighth edition, 1960, by Mary Irwin. The American Council on Education, Washington, D.C., 1212 p.

Survey of Land-Grant Colleges and Universities, by Arthur J. Klein. U.S. Department of the Interior (Office of Education Bulletin 1930, No. 9, Vols. I and II) Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1919 p. (Out of print.)

The Land-Grant Colleges, Staff Study No. 10, The Advisory Committee on Education, by George A. Works and Barton Morgan. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1939. 141 p. (Out of print.)

The Land-Grant of 1862 and The Land-Grant Bureau of Education, U.S. Department of Interior ington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1918.

Colleges, Benjamin F. Andrews. (Bulletin 1918, No. 13). Wash63 p. (Out of print.)

1891

1899

1955

1959-60

1960

1873 1875 1891

1901

1919

1948

State accepted provisions of Second Morrill Act of 1890 (Febru-
ary 13)

Name changed to Alabama Polytechnic Institute
Doctoral degrees first conferred

Amount of 1862 land-grant endowment fund-$253,500; income-
$20,529

Became Auburn University (January 1)

Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical College

Normal

State chartered Huntsville State Normal and Industrial School
Huntsville State Normal and Industrial School opened for instruction
State accepted provisions of Second Morrill Act of 1890 (Febru-
ary 13)

Name changed to State Agricultural and Mechanical College for
Negroes

First baccalaureate degree awarded

Name changed to State Agricultural and Mechanical Institute for
Negroes and school moved to Normal

Name changed to Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical College

Alaska

1915

1917

1922

1929

1935

1949

1958

1959

University of Alaska
College

Act of U.S. Congress (38 Stat. 1214)-A specific grant of four sec-
tions of land for the site of a college (March 4)
Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines established and
board appointed

Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines designated by Ter-
ritorial legislature as land-grant institution, and opened for
instruction (September 18)

By act of U.S. Congress (48 U.S.C., sec. 354A) granted 100,000 acres
of land for further benefit of Agricultural College and School of
Mines under same provisions that apply to land grant under
First Morrill Act of 1862 (January 21)

An act (Chap. 49) of the Territory of Alaska established University
of Alaska with power to succeed to all the rights, powers, priv-
ileges, and duties of the Alaska Agricultural College and School
of Mines (March 12)

Public Law 417, 81st Congress (approved October 27) and Public
Law 390, 82d Congress (approved June 12, 1952) extended pro-
visions of Bankhead-Jones Act of 1935 to include Alaska
The territory approved and requested statehood (June 30)
Statehood, by proclamation of President Eisenhower (January 3)

1959-60 Amount of 1862 land-grant endowment fund-$16,256; income $275 Unsold land-26,561 acres; value-undetermined

1961

Alaska State Regents Board approved reorganization along university lines into six academic colleges and division of statewide services (July 1)

Arizona

University of Arizona

Tucson

1885 1891

1895

1903

1910

1912

1922

Territorial legislature authorized State university at Tucson Legislature accepted provisions of Second Morrill Act of 1890 (March 19)

University of Arizona opened for instruction (October)

First baccalaureate degree granted

Master's degrees first awarded

With State enabling act, received 150,000 acres of land in lieu of grant under Morrill Act of 1862

State legislature accepted provisions of First Morrill Act of 1862

Ph. D. degrees first conferred

1959-1960 Amount of 1862 land-grant endowment fund $71,585; income

$29,351

Unsold-149,405 acres; value $489,200

Arkansas

1864

1867

1871

1872

1876

1884

1891

University of Arkansas
Fayetteville

State legislature accepted 150,000 acres in land scrip under the First Morrill Act; but because of disturbed conditions caused by the war, another act of the legislature was necessary before the scrip could be issued (May 11)

Legislature acted to issue scrip (January 31)

Legislature again affirmed acceptance of the conditions of the 1862
land-grant act and organized a college, the Arkansas Industrial
University at Fayetteville (March 27)

Arkansas Industrial University opened to first students (January 22)
Baccalaureate degrees first granted

Master's degrees first awarded

Legislature accepted provisions of Second Morrill Act and designated eight-elevenths of the funds to Arkansas Industrial University (April 9)

Name changed to University of Arkansas

Doctoral degrees first conferred

Amount of 1862 land-grant endowment fund-$133,000; income$6,633