His California roots went back to the Spanish land-grant days.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Dark Places]

The Georgia legislature entered into a corrupt land-grant deal.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of American Law] Reference

Act of 1887, organized federal funds for land-grant institutions.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930] Reference

An early Brazilian church-endorsed land-grant forerunner of the captaincies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Signz of the timez] Reference

Ohio State, located in Columbus, was founded in 1870 as a land-grant university.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Top 25 Recruiter Picks] Reference

The partnership deepened with the founding of land-grant universities in the 1860s.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remarks By The President At Science And Technology Awards] Reference

Judge Maestas down in Santa Fe, sitting on the land-grant case, had recused himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]

LSU, being a land-grant college, required this of all physically-able male students.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young and Foolish] Reference

These research centers became a second component of the land-grant college of agriculture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diffusion of Innovations] Reference

Most rural sociologists are employed in colleges of agriculture at land-grant universities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diffusion of Innovations] Reference

Mr. Holloway, I understand that all this country up here is your property, by land-grant purchase.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fuzzy Papers]

The land-grant colleges and public high schools transformed the economy of an industrializing nation.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 10, 2009] Reference

These are all land-grant colleges with donations from the respective States in which they are located.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference

And he'd go on to begin that first intercontinental railroad and set up the first land-grant colleges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transcript: Obama Addresses Michigan Grads] Reference

He would go on to begin that first intercontinental railroad and set up the first land-grant colleges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Michigan Graduation Speech: FULL TEXT, VIDEO] Reference

Nowhere else in the U.S. do two such large land-grant universities abut each other in neighboring states.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cuts Reach Campus Oasis] Reference

Many in the military simply feel less comfortable outside their familiar red-state and land-grant enclaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Military Should Mirror the Nation] Reference

Nor was Congress granted a power over education, apart from special situations such as land-grant schools.    From Wordnik.com.  [History] Reference

Contact your agricultural extension service; every state has one, affiliated with land-grant universities.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE ARROWS COOKBOOK] Reference

State university, private college, land-grant institution, Ivy League school, whatthefuckever - it doesn't matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The great education debate] Reference

After high school I went on to Iowa State University, a land-grant college and practically a museum for WPA art projects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Ideas Suddenly Become New Again: Time for Another New Deal and WPA?] Reference

Hybrid seed was developed by agricultural scientists at Iowa State University and at other state land-grant universities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diffusion of Innovations] Reference

Amy Bix talked about the gendering of home repair, from household equipment classes at land-grant universities to pink hammers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Junto report] Reference

I'm a white male whose ability to go to a really good, competitive college came primarily from the land-grant university system.    From Wordnik.com.  ['DIY U' and the future of public education] Reference

The state of New York designated the institution as its own land-grant university before a federal act spread the notion widely.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cornell University, Nov. 17, 2006 « Climate Audit] Reference

Both the U.S. Department of Agriculture USDA and land-grant universities were begun by Congressional legislation passed in 1862.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diffusion of Innovations] Reference

The original intent of creating land-grant colleges was to offer practical as well as more academic studies to the working class.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930] Reference

In 1862, in the darkest moment in American history, this country passed the Morrill Act that set up the land-grant college system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remarks By President In Session Of Economic Conference] Reference

The states therefore held a considerable stock of land—swamp land; land under land-grant college laws; dowry lands at statehood.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of American Law] Reference

There is a reason why Abraham Lincoln signed the law establishing land-grant colleges in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robin Lakoff: Education: Yes, but Why?] Reference

As a matter of fact, I believe it is the only private institution that was a land-grant institution if one traces back its history.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Machine That Changed the World] Reference

We will remain a land-grant institution, committed to access to excellence and creating social mobility as we improve quality of life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Linda Katehi: Opportunity in Crisis: The Potential $99 Million Budget Shortfall] Reference

U.S. land-grant universities have been institutional marvels in agricultural science, teaching and the continuing education of farmers.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Continue the Fight Against Hunger] Reference

David turned to AgrAbility, a collaborative partnership between land-grant universities and nonprofit agencies that operates in 27 states.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Gibbons: From Disability to AgrAbility] Reference

It is evident then that our study deals with 38 private colleges, all denominational except four, and six State colleges on land-grant bases.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference

One of them has some connection with the State by reason of the receipt of one-third of the proceeds of the Congressional land-grant for education.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference