Justin Morrill timeline

Reconfigured Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act Signed into Law

For fifteen years prior to the first introduction of the bill in 1857, there was a political movement calling for the creation of agriculture... Read more

Cornell University Opens For The First Term

Cornell University welcomed its first 412 students to the rural campus overlooking Lake Cayuga in Ithaca, New York, on October 7, 1868. Cornell is... Read more