Marks v. Trustees of Purdue University

On the 2d of July, 1862, an act of Congress was approved, by which it was provided, “that there be granted to the several states, for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, an amount of public land, to be apportioned to each state a quantity equal to thirty thousand acres for , each senator and representative in Congress to which the states are respectively entitled by the apportionment under the census of i860.”

The purpose declared was “the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and…