【英语时差8,16】莫里尔赠地学院法

 ANNCR: The Morrill Land Grant College Act – On Today's Congressional Moment The Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862, signed into law by Abraham Lincoln on July 2nd of that year, was first proposed in 1857 by Justin Smith Morrill, who served in Congress for 43 years as both a Representative and a Senator from Vermont. The son of a blacksmith, Morrill had to leave school when he was 15. He saw the need for the everyday working people he identified with to have access to higher education. The legislation he proposed used a simple formula to give federal land to every state for one purpose: to build at least one college, accessible to all, that would promote regional development by teaching agriculture and engineering in addition to "the higher graces of classical study," in Morrill's own words. These land-grant universities are considered forerunners¹ of today's state universities. Because of the Morrill Land Grant Act, 12 million acres now house 70 land-grant universities, including Michigan State University, Cornell University, the University of Kentucky, and Purdue University. Each year, land-grant schools award one-third of the nation's bachelors and masters degrees and 60% of all doctorates². Justin Morrill's vision has made higher education available to millions of Americans, and has far exceeded his original expectations in both depth and scope.

1 forerunners   

n.先驱( forerunner的名词复数 )；开路人；先兆；前兆

参考例句：

• Country music was undoubtedly one of the forerunners of rock and roll. 乡村音乐无疑是摇滚乐的先导之一。
• Heavy clouds are the forerunners of a storm. 阴云密布是暴风雨的前兆。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 doctorates   

n.博士学位( doctorate的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Nearly 1,000 specialized personnel with doctorates have settled in Shenzhen. 现已引进博士学位的专门人才近千名。 来自互联网
• John played the field academically, obtaining doctorates from several universities. 约翰的学术广博，他从几所大学拿到了博士学位。 来自互联网