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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most flagships emerged out of the land grant tradition, although a few are older. Land grant involved a fair amount of farming agricultural research because it was expected there would be relationships between the research at the university and the agricultural economy that was dominant in the US. Placing the new land grant universities in farming regions rather cities made sense. At the time, in the mid to late 19th century, the idea of placing new colleges in smaller towns and more rural areas also had a certain moral attraction to it. Colleges were seen as moral forces for the proper moral development of their students, and keeping them away from the depravities of the big bad cities had a certain attraction to it.

New flagship state universities were also often consciously placed in a central location in the state for practical purposes. Penn State is roughly in the center of Pennsylvania. Ditto for Ohio State. Bloomington is close enough to the center of Indiana. Political pressure in state assemblies also wanted to make sure the big city of the state didn't get all the advantages either. [/quote]

While this is pretty accurate, I would note that IU predates the Morrill Act of 1862 by over 40 years so is not in the land grant tradition.  Interestingly, it was established by the legislature the same year (1820) that the site for Indianapolis was chosen as the new state capital, yet the two were not put together.  (I don't know why.)  [/quote]

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