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The Land-Grant System and the American Society¹

Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, Washington, D. C.

ABSTRACT

My job this morning, as I understand it, is to discuss with you the contributions of the Land-Grant system to the American society. This is, of course, a highly appropriate topic for us to concern ourselves with at this time. As you know, Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Land-Grant Act into law just 100 years ago this next month. If silver and golden anniversaries have special significance, centennials surely provide an even greater temptation for stock-taking, review, reassessment, and the like.

Such occasions carry with them an almost irresistible urge to luxuriate in nostalgia and self-congratulations. Yet all of you, from your experiences with your research, know the tremendous value of periodically standing back from your work to take a new look at it from the prospective of first principles. In our day-to-day operations, we tend to confuse the ends with the means, to substitute expediency for principle, to care for the urgent at the expense of the important.

¹ Presented at the 57th Annual Meeting of the American Dairy Science Association, University of Maryland, College Park, June, 1962.