08-31-2016, 09:35 AM
(08-31-2016, 06:31 AM)CTcard link Wrote:[quote author=Mick link=topic=15533.msg169103#msg169103 date=1472645683]
Our attendance is much better than the typical land grant school. In its heyday, U of Miami averaged about 41,000.
Seems to be some confusion on the Morrill Act here.
Neither Stanford nor Miami are a land grant school. I think MIT is the only land grant school, though once upon a time Yale had Connecticut's land grant.
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It so happens that Friday's opponent is the first land-grant institution:
https://www.k-state.edu/boardleadership/...grant.html
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)