202 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



The merits of these papers, together with the oral exami- 

 nation in the morning, were to determine the award oi' the 

 Grinncll prizes of fifty and thirty dollars. 



That of fifty dollars was awarded to Almon H. Stone of 

 Phillipston, and that of thirty dollars to William G. Lee of 

 Amherst. 



Your Committee were present at the rhetorical exercises 

 of the other classes, and the graduating exercises of the 

 seniors in the presence of his Excellency Gov. Long, the 

 trustees and faculty of the college, and the public. We 

 also witnessed the military drills, and observed the deport- 

 ment of the young men in their intercourse with each other, 

 the faculty, and visitors ; and it gives us much pleasure to 

 express our appreciation of their gentlemanly bearing and 

 refined manners, and the respect, good will, and esteem they 

 manifested towards President Stockbridge and the faculty 

 of instructors. 



We fully belie s^e that the institution is doing good, faith- 

 ful work in the line of practical education for the duties of 

 the field and laboratory, and also fitting its young men for 

 military service and the varied duties of citizensliip ; and 

 we trust the time is not far in the future when a larger share 

 of that public confidence which is the support and most 

 powerful incentive to high attainment of all institutions of 

 learning recognized and fostered by the parental care of the 

 State may be more generously extended to this young col- 

 lege ; filling its halls with students ; securing from its friends 

 and from the State a more ample pecuniary endowment ; 

 enabling its board of management and faculty to provide 

 more perfect courses and appliances of instruction, and to 

 enter new fields of investigation and experiment ; enlarging 

 the boundaries of human knowledge, and devising new and 

 improved methods of employing the vast productive forces 

 of nature and civilization, and thus elevating the laborer by 

 relieving him of drudgery, giving intelligent direction to his 

 powerful energies, while securing to him those results and 

 rewards that can only be achieved in any department of 

 human industry by the exercise of skill based on the pos- 

 session of scientific knowledge. 



James P. Lynde, 



For the Committee. 

 Jan. 10, 1881. 



