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The People's College, the Mechanics' Mutual Protection and the Agricultural College Act

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Daniel W. Lang
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On September 2, 1858 fifteen thousand persons converged on a small village in central New York to celebrate the laying of the cornerstone of a new college. In the ceremonies at the building site the college's president, Amos Brown, explained the new institution's name.

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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , Fall 1978 , pp. 295 - 321
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Copyright © 1978 by New York University 

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