BULLETIN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN HISTORY SERIES VOLUME I PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF LAW AND WITH THE APPROVAL OF MADISON, WISCONSIN 1908 BULLETIN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN COMMITTEE OF PUBLICATION WALTER M. SMITH, Chairman WILLARD G. BLEYER, Secretary FREDERICK W. MACKENZIE, Editor THOMAS S. ADAMS, Economics and Political Science Series WILLIAM S. MARSHALL, Science Series DANIEL W. MEAD, Engineering Series EDWARD T. OWEN, Philology and Literature Series NO. 63 HISTORY SERIES, VOL 1, No. 1, PP. 1-53 THE ORIGIN OF THE SYSTEM OF LAND GRANTS FOR EDUCATION BY JOSEPH SCHAFER, M. L. Assistant Professor of History in the University of Oregon Published bi-monthly by authority of law with the approval of the Regents of the University and entered at the post office at Madison as second-class matter. MADISON, WISCONSIN AUGUST, 1902 |