land grant
Speech parts
1. land grant - Noun
2. land grant - Adjective
Meaning
a grant of public land (as to a railway or college)
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land-grant
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We want people to realize you are at a design school, not a land grant college. The way we look says a great deal about who we are.
All four were original colonies or parts thereof (Kentucky was originally a part of the land grant of the Colony of Virginia ) and share a strong influence of colonial common law in some of their laws and institutions.
Any citizen who had never taken up arms against the U.S. government (including freed slaves after the fourteenth amendment ) and was at least 21 years old or the head of a household, could file an application to claim a federal land grant.
At the time of the land grant the Government stipulated that the ground was to be used for cricket and cricket only.
But it could also be popular with the barbarian prisoners, who were often delighted by the prospect of a land grant within the empire.
Committed to community, Iowa State pioneered the outreach mission of being a land-grant college through creation of the first Extension Service in 1902.