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The College Of Agriculture At Penn State
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Author : Michael Bezilla
language : en
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Release Date : 1987
The College Of Agriculture At Penn State written by Michael Bezilla and has been published by Penn State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Architecture categories.
When The Pennsylvania State University received its charter in 1855, its founders intended it to be an institution for promoting scientific agriculture. Although the Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1862 broadened the University's curriculum to include other subjects, agriculture was not neglected. This book chronicles how Penn State went on to become a vital force in making agriculture more efficient not only in Pennsylvania but nationally and overseas as well. Into this institutional history is woven the evolution of Pennsylvania's agriculture. Bezilla's work demonstrates how men and women of science were able to gain the confidence of practical agriculturalists, and how the realities of practical agriculture shaped work in the laboratory and classroom. This history is also the story people -- figures such as Whitman Jordan, who conducted landmark experiments in soil fertility; Milton McDowell, who battled the government and the trustees of his own university to preserve an independent extension service; and Elizabeth Meek, who broke under the strain of being the first woman to enter the male domain of the agricultural faculty. This analytical, forthright study expands our knowledge of land-grant education and is an important contribution to the history of Pennsylvania agriculture.
Pennstate Agriculture
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language : en
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Release Date : 1997
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Evan Pugh S Penn State
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Author : Roger L. Williams
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2018-02-22
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When Evan Pugh became the first president of Pennsylvania’s Farmers’ High School—later to be known as The Pennsylvania State University—the small campus was in disrepair and in dire need of leadership. Pugh was young, barely into his 30s, but he was energetic, educated, and visionary. During his tenure as president he molded the school into a model institution of its kind: America’s first scientifically based agricultural college. In this volume, Roger Williams gives Pugh his first book-length biographical treatment. Williams recounts Pugh’s short life and impressive career, from his early days studying science in the United States and Europe to his fellowship in the London Chemical Society, during which he laid the foundations of the modern ammonium nitrate fertilizer industry, and back to Pennsylvania, where he set about developing “upon the soil of Pennsylvania the best agricultural college in the world” and worked to build an American academic system mirroring Germany’s state-sponsored agricultural colleges. This last goal came to fruition with the passage of the Morrill Act in 1862, just two years prior to Pugh’s death. Drawing on the scientist-academic administrator’s own writings and taking a wide focus on the history of higher education during his lifetime, Evan Pugh’s Penn State tells the compelling story of Pugh’s advocacy and success on behalf of both Penn State and land-grant colleges nationwide. Despite his short life and career, Evan Pugh’s vision for Penn State made him a leader in higher education. This engaging biography restores Pugh to his rightful place in the history of scientific agriculture and education in the United States.
Report Of The Transactions Of The Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society
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Author : Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society
language : en
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Release Date : 1854
Report Of The Transactions Of The Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society written by Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1854 with Agriculture categories.
Frederick Watts And The Founding Of Penn State
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Author : Roger L. Williams
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2021-04-26
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Frederick Watts came to prominence during the nineteenth century as a lawyer and a railroad company president, but his true interests lay in agricultural improvement and in raising the economic, social, and political standing of Pennsylvania’s farmers. After being elected founding president of The Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society in 1851, he used his position to advocate vigorously for the establishment of an agricultural college that would employ science to improve farming practices. He went on to secure the charter for the Farmers’ High School of Pennsylvania, which would eventually become the Pennsylvania State University. This biography explores Watts’s role in founding and leading Penn State through its formative years. Watts adroitly directed the school as it was sited, built, and financed, opening for students in 1859. He hired the brilliant Evan Pugh as founding president, who, with Watts, quickly made it the first successful agricultural college in America. But for all his success in launching the institution, Watts nearly brought it to the brink of closure through a series of ruinous presidential appointments that led to an abandonment of the land-grant focus on agriculture and engineering. Watts’s influence in the agricultural modernization movement and his impact on land-grant education in the United States—both in his role with Penn State and later as US commissioner of agriculture—made him a leader in the history of agricultural and higher education. Roger L. Williams’s compelling biography of Watts reestablishes him in this legacy, providing a balanced analysis of his missteps and accomplishments.
Annual Report Of The Pennsylvania State College For The Year
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Author : Pennsylvania State College
language : en
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Release Date : 1890
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Penn State Farmer
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language : en
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Release Date : 1921
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Annual Report Of The Transactions Of The Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society
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Author : Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society
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Release Date : 1854
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The Agricultural College Of Pennsylvania
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Author : Agricultural College of Pennsylvania
language : en
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Release Date : 1862
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Report Of The Pennsylvania State College For The Year
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Author : Pennsylvania State College
language : en
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Release Date : 1887
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