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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 



1866, Sept. 29. Resignation of President French. 



1866, Nov. 7. Hon. Paul A. Chadbourne elected president. 



1866. Hon. Levi Stockbridge elected farm super- 



intendent and instructor in agriculture. 



1866. Dr. Nathan Durfee and Leonard M. and 



Henry F. Hills give $20,000 for the estab- 

 lishment and maintenance of plant house 

 and botanic garden. 



1867, June 1. Resignation of President Chadbourne on 



account of ill health. 



1867, Aug. 7. Col. William S. Clark elected president; 



Ebenezer S. Snell, professor of mathe- 

 matics, and Henry H. Goodell, professor 

 of modern languages. 



1867, Oct. 2. First class admitted to the college, number- 



ing forty-seven members before the close 

 of the term. 



1867. South dormitory, laboratory and south 



boarding house completed ; seventy-three 

 acres of land added to the college farm, 

 and granite quarry in Pelham purchased. 



1867. Washington Irving Literary society founded. 



1867. Gift by Hon. Marshall P. Wilder of 1300 



specimens of choice plants to the Durfee 

 plant house. 



1868, March 11. Resolve by the Legislature, authorizing the 



governor to issue arms and equipments 

 to tbe college. 



1868, May 1. Resolve allowing $50,000 for the erection 



of buildings, &c. 



1868, May. New England Agricultural Society holds a 



trial of plows on the college farm. 



1868, Dec. 8. Country meeting of State Board of Agricul- 



ture held at the college. 



1868. North dormitory, north boarding house, bo- 



tanic museum, and Durfee plant house 

 completed. 



1868. Charles A. Goessmann elected professor of 



chemistry. 



1868. Samuel F. Miller elected professor of math- 



ematics, physics, and civil engineering. 



