> Colleges and universities as institutions were never meant for commoners. Most people forget that barely a few centuries colleges and universities were places

> Colleges and universities as institutions were never meant for commoners. Most people forget that barely a few centuries colleges and universities were places that primarily catered to two distinct classes of people Fine, but that all changed no later than the Morrill Act of 1862 [1], which called on every state in the US to create a public agriculture and engineering university (and provided a method for funding the creation). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrill_Land-Grant_Acts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrill_Land-Grant_Acts