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To: Moominoid who wrote (67592)8/16/2005 7:54:38 AM
From: Slagle  Read Replies (2) of 74559
 
Moominoid Re: "middle of nowhere" Land grant colleges were usually located out in the boonies where the individual states had available land to grant. Colleges founded by the churches followed the same pattern. Part of the idea was to be away from the corrupting influence of the city or town, with the saloons and the disease epidemics.

Back then the epidemics were serious, especially in warm weather and worse in the south. Southern land grant schools were usually located up in the hills, where the cool mountain air was considered beneficial and a spring could provide a safe water source.

And as the instruction was big on the "classic revival" stuff with Greek and Latin studies and contemplative philosophy of the classic style or traditional Christian was important, the quiet solitude of the boonies was perfect. But avoidance of epidemics was probably the main thing.
Slagle
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