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and chapel building in the imperfect state in which wc are 

 now obliged to leave it. The design of the architect should 

 be carried out, that we may have a place for the college bell 

 and for the college clock. The evident determination of one 

 of the classes now in college to provide an excellent clock, 

 if the tower is now built, and the fact that the building can 

 now be perfected at less expense than hereafter, are impor- 

 tant arguments for finishing the building as designed. We 

 could not make the buildino^ smaller and have it suffice for 

 the purposes intended ; hence our effort to keep within the 

 appropriation and secure the rooms needed, though unable 

 to perfect the building. An appropriation will be needed at 

 an early day to furnish this building, and to do what is need- 

 ful to perfect the building according to its plan. As soon 

 as it is furnished with shelving and cases, our library and 

 our more valuable geological and other specimens will be 

 transferred to it. This building is of granite, from the Pel- 

 ham quarry, belonging to the college. On the sixth of last 

 November the corner-stone was laid. His Excellency Gov. 

 Robinson, ex-officio President of the Board of Trustees, 

 being unable to fulfil his intention to be present, Hon. J. S. 

 Grinnell, of Greenfield, presided. The reasons for erecting 

 the building were briefly outlined by President Greenough. 

 He referred to the action of the alumni at their annual meet- 

 ing jn I880, when measures were taken to provide a better 

 library for the college, — to the request of the Board of 

 Control for the use of the present chapel-room for a labora- 

 tory for the Massachusetts Experiment Station, — and to the 

 evident needs of the college for all that is to be secured in 



the buildinar. 



Herbert Alyrick, of Springfield, of the class of '82, spoke 

 in behalf of the library committee of the alumni. Ex-Pres- 

 ident Stockbridge spoke of the progress and the aims of the 

 college. Arthur A. Brigham, of the class of '78, and S. C. 

 Damon, of the class of '82, also made pertinent addresses 

 respecting the value and the prospects of the college. O. 

 B. Hadwen, Esq., of Worcester, gave a detailed account of 

 the plan of the building. Hon. C. L. Flint, of Boston, for a 

 time president of the college, outlined its early history. 

 The closing exercises were the singing of an original hymn 



