. Contemporary American biography . ^I^^^^e: CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 221 tinction from the work of experiment and research which had been especially provided for bythe Act of 1887. In promoting the passage of this measure also, Dr. Atherton rendered im-portant service. Meantime in the summer of 1882, he received, and finally accepted, a call tothe Presidency of The Pennsylvania State College, one of the Land Grant Institutions. Afterhaving received the income of the Land Grant Act for fifteen years, the institution had lessthan one hundred students, a meagre equipment, with a public s
. Contemporary American biography . ^I^^^^e: CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 221 tinction from the work of experiment and research which had been especially provided for bythe Act of 1887. In promoting the passage of this measure also, Dr. Atherton rendered im-portant service. Meantime in the summer of 1882, he received, and finally accepted, a call tothe Presidency of The Pennsylvania State College, one of the Land Grant Institutions. Afterhaving received the income of the Land Grant Act for fifteen years, the institution had lessthan one hundred students, a meagre equipment, with a public sentiment either hostile or in-different, and this, notwithstanding the fact that its Faculty and Board of Trustees had neverbeen without strong and able men. The task of building it up and making it worthy of so richand powerful a Commonwealth as Pennsylvania seemed almost a hopeless one, but to this taskDr. Atherton devoted himself with a courage and enthusiasm which astonished even his friends,and the spirit of which was in itsel
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