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Caption: Book - History of the University (Powell)
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Final Period Land Grant Bill 127 been created or greatly expanded because of this law, and probably not one of the states that have accepted grants under it, today regret its passage. Although there may have been some frauds in the handling of the scrip and although the states, as predicted by the opponents of the bill, did not in some instances get the full benefits of the grants made, yet the plan on the whole has proved a wonderful success. Of more value to education, however, than the actual appropriation of lands, great as it was, was the fact of the creation of a great system of industrial universities which the states themselves have learned to value and to foster.
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