[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 703 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 703

   Congratulating The Pennsylvania State University on 150 years of 
service and commending Pennsylvania's designation of the University as 
                 Pennsylvania's land-grant institution.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              July 6, 2004

Mr. Peterson of Pennsylvania (for himself, Mr. Shuster, Mr. Toomey, Mr. 
Gerlach, Mr. Platts, Mr. Greenwood, Mr. Murphy, Mr. Feeney, Mr. Doyle, 
Ms. Hart, Mr. Wolf, Mr. Brady of Pennsylvania, Mr. Holden, Mr. Hoeffel, 
 Mr. Sherwood, Mr. Fattah, Mr. Pitts, Mr. Weldon of Pennsylvania, Mr. 
 Murtha, and Mr. Kanjorski) submitted the following resolution; which 
      was referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                               RESOLUTION


 
   Congratulating The Pennsylvania State University on 150 years of 
service and commending Pennsylvania's designation of the University as 
                 Pennsylvania's land-grant institution.

Whereas the Farmers' High School was founded in Centre County, Pennsylvania, in 
        1854 in response to the State Agricultural Society's interest in 
        establishing an educational institution to bring general education and 
        modern farming methods to the farmers of the Commonwealth of 
        Pennsylvania;
Whereas the Farmers' High School was granted a permanent charter by the 
        Pennsylvania General Assembly in 1855;
Whereas the First Morrill Act, enacted in 1862, provided for the distribution of 
        grants of public lands owned by the Federal Government to the States for 
        establishing and maintaining institutions of higher learning;
Whereas in 1863 the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania accepted a grant of land 
        provided through such Act to establish one of the first two land-grant 
        institutions in the United States and designated the Farmers' High 
        School, renamed the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania, as 
        Pennsylvania's sole land-grant institution;
Whereas in 1874 the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania was renamed The 
        Pennsylvania State College and in 1953 was renamed The Pennsylvania 
        State University;
Whereas The Pennsylvania State University consists of 11 academic schools, 20 
        additional campuses located throughout Pennsylvania, the College of 
        Medicine, the Dickinson School of Law, and the Pennsylvania College of 
        Technology and has an enrollment of 83,000;
Whereas one in every eight Pennsylvanians with a college degree, one in every 
        720 people in the United States, one in every 50 engineers, and one in 
        every four meteorologists are alumni of The Pennsylvania State 
        University;
Whereas The Pennsylvania State University Alumni Association, formed in 1870, is 
        the largest dues-paying alumni association in the Nation;
Whereas The Pennsylvania State University has the largest outreach effort in 
        United States higher education, delivering programs to learners in 87 
        countries and all 50 States;
Whereas The Pennsylvania State University consistently ranks in the top three 
        universities chosen by high school seniors to receive SAT scores;
Whereas The Pennsylvania State University annually hosts the largest student-run 
        philanthropic event in the world, which benefits the Four Diamonds Fund 
        for families with children being treated for cancer;
Whereas the missions of instruction, research, outreach, and extension continue 
        to be the focus of The Pennsylvania State University;
Whereas the rechargeable heart pacemaker and the heart-assist pump were designed 
        at The Pennsylvania State University;
Whereas four astronauts who have flown in space were alumni of The Pennsylvania 
        State University, including the first African American to fly in space;
Whereas The Pennsylvania State University was the first institution in the 
        Nation to offer a degree in agriculture; and
Whereas The Pennsylvania State University is one of the most highly regarded 
        research universities in the Nation, with an outreach extension program 
        that reaches nearly one out of two Pennsylvanians each year and an 
        undergraduate school of immense scope and popularity: Now, therefore, be 
        it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) congratulates The Pennsylvania State University for 150 
        years of service to the citizens of the Commonwealth of 
        Pennsylvania and the Nation; and
            (2) commends Pennsylvania's designation of The Pennsylvania 
        State University as the land-grant institution of the 
        Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
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