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of October, 1867, and forty-seven students were admitted 

 before the close of the first term. Never will the writer of 

 this article forget the remark of President Clark, as we 

 drove over together, on the opening day, to the place of 

 examination : " I do not know of a single man that is coming 

 to-day, but I believe the heart of the old Bay State will 

 beat true to the opportunity presented it." And when we 

 found twenty-seven young men awaiting the ordeal, his 

 joy knew no bounds, and I think he was inclined to admit 

 the whole number at once, withour further trial. During 

 his administration the perpetual fund for the maintenance 

 of the College was largely increased by the generosity of 

 the state, new buildings were erected, and the faculty was 

 enlarged. The College also entered into an agreement to 

 represent the agricultural department of Boston Univer- 

 sity, the matriculants of the one being eligible to take 

 the diploma of the other. 



The buildings of the Massachusetts Agricultural Col- 

 lege at the present time include a laboratory, botanic 

 museum, two plant-houses, dormitories containing reci- 

 tation-rooms, a chapel-library building, club-house, farm- 

 house with barn and sheds, drill-hall, and five dwelling 

 houses, representing a total value of about $200,000. 

 The farm consists of 384 acres, some eighty acres of 

 which are set off for experimental purposes, and the rest 

 divided between cultivated, grass, and wood-land. It is lo- 

 cated on the eastern water-shed of the Connecticut River, 

 bounded west by a tributary of that stream, with a rivu- 

 let running through it from southeast to northwest, empty- 

 ing into the tributary. The land adjacent to these streams 

 is rolling and high enough to give good drainage; the 



