Word: township
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...whereby it was provided for the great Northwestern Territory that "schools and the means of education should forever be encouraged." This principle was reasserted upon the organization of the Territory of Michigan in 1804-05, and took a practical form in the reservation by act of Congress of a township of land for the support of a university. Its first foundations, therefore, were national. No steps were taken by the government towards university organization until the year 1817, when an act was passed establishing the "University of Michigan," and providing for thirteen professorships, including one for the historical sciences...