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The schools were also to teach "military tactic" which lead to ROTC programs in colleges. If a state did not have enough federal land within its borders to meet that state's land grant, the state was issued "scrip" which authorized the state to select federal lands in other states to fund its institution.<ref>{{USC|7|302}}</ref> For example, [[New York]] carefully selected valuable timber land in [[Wisconsin]] to fund [[Cornell University]].<ref>http://www.cornell.edu/landgrant/resources/Land_Grant_Univ_Whalen.pdf p. 9</ref> The resulting management of this scrip by the university yielded one third of the total grant revenues generated by all the states, even though New York received only one-tenth of the 1862 land grant.<ref>http://www.cornell.edu/landgrant/resources/Land_Grant_Univ_Whalen.pdf p. 10</ref> Overall, the 1862 Morrill Act allocated 17,400,000 acres of land, which when sold yielded a collective endowment of $7.55 million.<ref>http://www.cornell.edu/landgrant/resources/Land_Grant_Univ_Whalen.pdf p. 8</ref> The state of [[State of Iowa|Iowa]] was the first to accept the terms of the Morrill Act which provided a needed financial boost for the fledgling Ames College (now [[Iowa State University]].)

The schools were also to teach "military tactic" which lead to ROTC programs in colleges. If a state did not have enough federal land within its borders to meet that state's land grant, the state was issued "scrip" which authorized the state to select federal lands in other states to fund its institution.<ref>{{USC|7|302}}</ref> For example, [[New York]] carefully selected valuable timber land in [[Wisconsin]] to fund [[Cornell University]].<ref>http://www.cornell.edu/landgrant/resources/Land_Grant_Univ_Whalen.pdf p. 9</ref> The resulting management of this scrip by the university yielded one third of the total grant revenues generated by all the states, even though New York received only one-tenth of the 1862 land grant.<ref>http://www.cornell.edu/landgrant/resources/Land_Grant_Univ_Whalen.pdf p. 10</ref> Overall, the 1862 Morrill Act allocated 17,400,000 acres of land, which when sold yielded a collective endowment of $7.55 million.<ref>http://www.cornell.edu/landgrant/resources/Land_Grant_Univ_Whalen.pdf p. 8</ref> The state of [[State of Iowa|Iowa]] was the first to accept the terms of the Morrill Act which provided a needed financial boost for the fledgling Ames College (now [[Iowa State University]].)

Except for Cornell University and the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]), all of the Land-Grant Colleges are public.  (Cornell University, while private, administers several state-supported [[statutory college]]s that fulfill its public land-grant mission to the state of New York.)

Except for Cornell University and the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]], all of the Land-Grant Colleges are public.  (Cornell University, while private, administers several state-supported [[statutory college]]s that fulfill its public land-grant mission to the state of New York.)

Congress later passed the [[Morrill Act of 1890]] to address the problem of states that refused to admit blacks to their land grant colleges.

Congress later passed the [[Morrill Act of 1890]] to address the problem of states that refused to admit blacks to their land grant colleges.