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MIT is probably the only land grant campus that has no agriculture department. That much is understandable, since ag-schools need to do actual literal field wo
by ocschwar 7y ago
MIT is probably the only land grant campus that has no agriculture department.
That much is understandable, since ag-schools need to do actual literal field work on test plots, and that kind of acreage is hard to come by anywhere near Cambridge. But it also means there was nobody on campus to sanity check this OpenAg nonsense.
- bbanyc 7y agoThe land grant act specified the aims for the funded schools would be "agricultural and mechanical." I believe Massachusetts was the only state to divide the funds between separate agricultural (UMass) and mechanical (MIT) universities.