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Morrill Hall, the first building of Cornell University, is named for Senator Justin Morrill, in honor of the Morrill Land-Grant act. Beaumont Tower at Michigan State University marks the site of College Hall which is the first building in the United States to teach agricultural science.
"In adjusting the details of a tariff," Morrill explained with a rhetorical flourish in his introduction of the bill, "I would treat agriculture, manufactures, mining, and commerce, as I would our whole people—as members of one family, all entitled to equal favor, and no one to be made the beast of burden to carry the packs of others." [23]
Morrill Hall at Iowa State University, one of several Morrill Halls at colleges created by the Morrill Act The Morrill Tariff of 1861 was a protective tariff law adopted on March 2, 1861. Passed after anti-tariff southerners had left Congress during the process of secession, Morrill designed it with the advice of Pennsylvania economist Henry C ...
Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act; Long title: A bill to punish and prevent the Practice of Polygamy in the Territories of the United States and other Places, and disapproving and annulling certain Acts of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah. Nicknames: Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act of 1862: Enacted by: the 37th United States Congress: Effective ...
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Justin Smith Morrill, U.S. Senator from Vermont, whose namesake legislation includes: Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act; Morrill Tariff; Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act; Lot M. Morrill, Governor of Maine, U.S. Senator, and Secretary of the U.S. Treasury under President Grant; Mary Morrill, early Nantucket settler and grandmother of Benjamin Franklin
Hundreds of federal workers process thousands of retirement applications every month, by hand in a converted former mine.
With the passage of this act, the Smith-Hughs Act—and consequently the Federal Board for Vocational Education—disbanded due to opposing politics and organizational difficulties from within. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Despite this, its efforts and accomplishments are still recognized and in effect in modern American vocational education.