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Excerpt from Bulletin of the University of Wisconsin, Vol. 1: History Series; 1902-1908 But in regard to a policy which has been so fruitful in results it is desirable to know more than this. We wish to know, for example, from what source the statesmen of this period derived the idea of land grants for education; whether it came to them in the form of a happy suggestion, as seems so often to be taken for granted, or whether it was the result of colonial exper ience. If the latter, just what and how far reaching were the customs which involved the principle of land grants? Lastly, assuming that the idea was involved in well defined local cus toms, how was it brought to the attention of the'national legis lators in away to induce them to embody it in the ordinances? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.