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those who remain, and others have been continued by special 

 instructors from abroad. In the latter cases the attempt has 

 been successfully made to secure the services of proficient 

 and experienced teachers in the departments to be taught. 

 But, however advantageous tliis may be to the pupils, prac- 

 ticall}^ it does not increase the faculty, or divide with its 

 members the care, labor, and responsibility of the general 

 manafjement of college affairs. 



The anniversary exercises, instead of being held in the 

 centre of the town, a mile from the college premises, as in 

 most former years, were conducted in the college chapel, 

 which, though of meagre seating capacity, accommodated 

 the different assemblies with little discomfort. This, with 

 the fact that the musical associations of the students fur- 

 nished all the music for the military parade and the in-door 

 exercises, served to concentrate and unify the college sen- 

 timent, which apparently was shared alike by the college 

 fraternity, friends, and visiting strangers. The exercises 

 were attended by his Excellency the Governor, a large pro- 

 portion of the board of trustees, the examining committee 

 of the board of overseers, and a larger number than usual 

 of citizen-farmers from the surrounding community and 

 different parts of the State ; all of whom evinced great inter- 

 est in the college and its work, and expressed satisfaction 

 with the character of the exercises. After an address preg- 

 nant with good advice to the graduates, the facult}^ and 

 trustees, congratulations at the success of the institution, 

 and pleasure at the spirit which appeared to pervade all, 

 the Governor delivered the diplomas of the State to the 

 members of the graduating class, conferring the degree of 

 bachelor of science ; and the diplomas of the Boston Uni- 

 versity were delivered by the college president. 



The Grinnell Prizes, offered to the members of the gradu- 

 ating: class for the two best written and oral examinations 

 in agriculture, and the Farnsworth Prizes, to the sophomore 

 and freshman classes for excellence in declamation, were 

 sharply competed for, and great interest was manifested in 

 each. But the importance of the former exercise is not 

 fully appreciated, and does not attract the full attention 

 of the public which its importance deserves. "While the 

 hope of winning tlie fifty or thirty dollar prize may stimu- 



