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pensation will be given. But as the purpose of the College is instruc- 

 tion, mere labor for pay will not be encouraged or allowed to such an 

 extent as to interfere with the regular and successful performance of all 

 required college duties. 



Botanic Garden. 

 With the limited means derived from the college fund, no outlay on 

 the land could be made except such as should be demanded for the gen- 

 eral cultivation of the farm. But the Trustees are able to make the 

 gratifying announcement that $20,000 have already been pledged to the 

 College for the express purpose of establishing and maintaining a 

 Botanic Garden. Ten thousand dollars of this fund are given by 

 Messrs. Leonard M. and Henry F. Hills, of Amherst, and ten thousand 

 by Dr. Nathan Durfee, of Fall River. These liberal subscriptions, so 

 promptly made for this purpose, render it the duty of the Trustees at 

 once to undertake the work on a scale that shall correspond to the gen- 

 erous intentions of the donors, and make the garden an honor to the 

 State. We have no doubt others will willingly aid in carrying out a 

 plan that shall secure to the College all that can be desired in this 

 direction. The whole subject has been referred to a committee of the 

 Board, to report upon a plan of organization, so that the work of pre- 

 paring the ground for the garden may be commenced the coming spring. 



Relations to Amherst College. 

 The people of Massachusetts, through their representatives, were 

 emphatic in their decision that the Agricultural College should not be 

 merely a department of some already existing institution. A fear has 

 been entertained by some that its location near another college is an 

 unfortunate one. We think any apprehension on this score is entirely 

 without foundation. Certainly there are some great advantages in its 

 proximity to an old established institution. The very liberal offers 

 made by Amherst College in regard to the use of its library, give the 

 students of the Agricultural College advantages which they could not 

 have for many years from the institution itself. The very extensive 

 and valuable mineralogical and geological cabinets there will always be 

 open to our students, so that there will be no need of attempting to 

 build up such cabinets in connection with the Agricultural College. 

 With these cabinets so near and so valuable — but valuable to students 

 only for general examination — it would be a mere waste of money to 

 do more than to prepare cabinets for illustration in the lecture room, 

 and make collections in those departments having special reference to 

 agriculture. This method of action ought to be more generally adopted 

 than it is, even by those colleges far from each other. If each one 



