FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1961 Pugh Influences Bill's Passage The. struggle to secure pas sage of the Morrill Land-Grant Act in Washington and to gain acceptance of the act in Penn sylvania a century ago was sought by both partisans and the trustees of the University. Foremost supporter of the act in Pennsylvania was Evan Pugh, distinguished scientist, educator and first president of the Uni versity. Pugh travelled to Wash ington to exert influence on the formulation and passage of the Morrill Act, since it was directly in line with his belief in schools established for practical, public education in agriculture and the mechanic arts. Later, when the act had been passed by Congress and signed by President Abraham Lincoln, Pugh went to Harrisburg to per suade the state legislature that prompt acceptance of the act would enhance its value to the state. On April 1. 1863, Governor Andrew Gregg Curtin, ex officio Group International Plans Rejected International programs recom mended by the National Land- Grant centennial committee will not be established here, Reed Fer guson, chairman of the centennial committee on campus, said re cently. The University already has many international programs and "historically has always been interested in establishing inter national programs here," he said. Carrying out recommendations of the national committee for in ternational studies would be a duplication of effort, Ferguson added. One of the international pro grams recommended for Land- Grant colleges and universities was to encourage lecturers from foreign universities to study and lecture in this country. Ferguson said the University has participated in the Fulbright Scholarship and Fellowship pro- sunk in '43, he and his crew were given up for dead. But actually, they were fighting starvation on a desert island. Read the authen tic account of their ordeal in this week's Saturday Evening Post. n. Saisaay eg•isfae POST THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. UNIVERSITY PARK. PENNSYLVANIA trustee of the University, which was then the Agriculture Col lege of Pennsylvania, signed the act pledging the faith of the slate to carrying the- act into effect. This act also assigned all funds from the act to the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania. But Pugh's work on the Land- Grant Act was not over. On April 14, 1864, a bill was intro duced into the state Senate pro posing division of land-grant bene fits among six institutions instead of granting the entire sum to the University. Pugh wrote a letter to the Senate showing the private, sectarian and even local char acter of most of the other col leges in contrast to the qualifi cations of the Agricultural Col lege. The Agricultural College was "a bona fide state institu- EVAN PUGH lion, built - and owned by the .. . first land-grant president State" and established to pro- * * * vide a practical industrial educe- this letter that he collapsed at his lion as advocated by the Morrill ( desk from an attack of typhoid Act, he wrote. fever, from which he died one It was while he was writingiweek later. grams which incorporates the university students, these insti committee's recommendations, for;tutions have 26 per cent of the years. , foreign students studying on their He said that the national cen-' tennial committee was probably interested in establishing these international programs at smaller colleges and universities which do not at present have such pro grams. It would be "unfair" for the local centennial committee to take credit for the international programs already established on campus, Ferguson said. 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Short sleeves $4.00 Long sleeves $5.00 r/ - campuses the report stated and 36 per cent of the foreign faculty, 41 per cent of U.S. faculty serving abroad and '7O per cent of the Aid for International development, ,formerly the International Co operation Administration, college contract funds. Some of the other recommenda tions the Land-Grant centennial national committee made were to: I establish a center to coordinate its international programs. •find means of sharing informa tion about work and research in international education. • cooperate with other institutions in the basis of regional or c l3alloc In The "A" Store MEN'S STORE State College Stiortly afterward, the Senate voted to postpone indefinitely the bill to split land-grant benefits. Three years later rite entire sum went to the Agricultural College. Three others, Hugh N. McAllis ter, Judge Frederick Watts, and Congressman James T. Hale join ed Pugh in his fight for the Mor rill Act. McAllister. a Bellefonte law yer who helped found the Uni versity also spent time both in Washington and Harrisburg to secure passage of the act. Watts, of Carlisle, first presi dent of the Board of Trustees, not: only helped to win legislative ap-I proval of. the act, but also called( a national conference in 1872 which paved the way for the or-1 ganization of the American Asso-: ciation of Land-Grant Colleges. Judge Hale, Bellefonte, was at member of the 'U.S. House of Rep resentatives from 1858 .to 1865' where he fought for the act. Also! a trustee of the University, he helped obtain early legislative grants to complete Old Main. special interests when an in ternational program is too large for a single institution. oendeavor to establish a firm and continuing relationship with a university overseas. • attempt to secure additional financial support for inter national programs. Sometimes you have to "call out the reserves" ...and so do wet Husband calls. 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