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by Professor Hitchcock, who had examined the agricultural institutions of 

 Europe, on the educational wants of the industrial classes. Governor Andrew, 

 referring to this report, and to the institution recommended by it, says : 



"The following pregnant suggestion, looking forward to an institution of 

 wise and liberal breadth, and of true public economy like that which our act 

 of Congi-ess indicates, illustrates the comprehensiveness as well as the careful- 

 ness in observation of this report. 'By the addition of a single professorship 

 of technology,' says the report, 'to such an institution as has been described, 

 and extending the collection of instruments to those of every art, this school 

 might become a school of sciences as well as of commerce and manufactures, 

 and thus afford an education to the son of the mechanic and merchant as well 

 as the farmer.' " 



Views of this nature, looking to the wants of all the industrial classes, thus 

 presented, and urged by leading writers whose sympathies were with these 

 classes, led to the passage of the act of Congress. The clear intent of that act 

 is to provide an institution for all — not for separate institutions for each, much 

 ^ss for a simple professorship of agriculture in existing colleges. Governor An- 

 drew, referring to the donation in this act, and to the policy of adding to it by 

 concentrating other resources for the instruction of the industrial classes, says : 



" The act of Congress does not make provision sufficient for an agricultural 

 school of the highest class in each State. Nor would it be possible now to find, 

 disconnected from our colleges and universities, as many men of high talent, 

 and otherwise competent, as would be required to fill the chairs of one such 

 school. But Massachusetts already has, in tiie projected Bussey Institution, 

 an agricultural school founded, though not yet in operation, with a large endow- 

 ment, connected also with Harvard College and the Lawrence Scientific School. 

 She can therefore, by securing the grant from Congress, combining with the 

 Institute of Technology and the Zoological Museum, and working in harmony 

 with the college, secure also for the agricultural student for whom she thus pro- 

 vides, not only the benefits of the national appropriation, but of the Bussey In- 

 stitution also, and the means and instrumentalities of the Institute of Technology, 

 as well as those accumulated at Cambridge. The benefits to our State, and to 

 our country, and to mankind, which can be obtained by this cooperation are of 

 the highest character, and can be obtained in no other uiay. The details of the 

 connexion of the Bussey Institution with the Scientific School and the College, 

 are not yet fully wrought out ; but I apprehend that little difficulty would be 

 found in connecting it also with the grant from Congress, if the gentlemen who 

 may be intrusted by the State with the work will approach it Avith the percep- 

 tion of the absolute necessity for husbanding our materials, both men and money, 

 and concentrating all our efforts upon making an institution worthy of our age 

 and of our people. Its summit must reach the highest level of modern science, 

 and its heads must be those whom men will recognize as capable of planning a 

 great work, and of Avorking out a great plan." 



This recommendation of union, and by it of strength, was made in order to 

 avoid " the prevention of all the waste of means, the weakening of all resources, 

 the repetitions of professorships, libraries, apparatus, and other material, conse- 

 quent on scattering instead of concentration." 



These recommendations Avere the result of the lofty conception which Governor 

 Andrew had of the present and the future of the industrial classes. Urging 

 this union of the educational resources of Massachusetts, he says : 



