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such professional duties as the trustees might direct, and 

 receiving a competent salary from the Commonwealth. 

 This resolution was reconsidered the next year, and the fol- 

 lowing resolution adopted: "That Charles L. Flint, the 

 secretary of this Board, be authorized to deliver a course of 

 lectures at the Agricultural College, or to discharge such 

 duties connected with the instruction of the students at that 

 institution, as the trustees may assign to him, provided 

 that such services do not conflict with his duties as secre- 

 tary aforesaid." 



Under this resolve Mr. Flint lectured at the College for 

 four successive years, his name being carried on the cata- 

 logue as lecturer on dairy-farming. 



Again in 1875 we find the Board renewing its efforts to 

 induce the several agricultural societies to maintain each a 

 scholarship at the college, and to secure the attendance of 

 one or more students from the district covered by their 

 organizations. 



In all matters of financial aid the Board, by direct effort 

 and petition to the General Court, was a powerful support 

 to the trustees. This was particularly manifest in the years 

 1868, 1869, 1876, 1877, 1882, and 1899. 



When, in 1880, Governor Talbot and the Council ad- 

 vocated the union of Amherst College and the Massachu- 

 setts Agricultural College, it was the Board which, under 

 the leadership of Benjamin P. Ware of Marblehead, drew 

 up a series of resolutions embodying its adverse feeling; 

 and again in 1881 it was the Board which directed its 

 secretary to petition the Legislature to establish an experi- 

 ment station at the College. In short, wherever we look we 

 find the Board of Agriculture at the front, moulding public 



