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be largely dependent upon the loyal and practical support given it by the 

 alumni; and that the best means of securing such support is to bring about 

 a feeling of earnest and active co-operation between the state board and 

 faculty, and the alumni. Be it further 



Resolved, That in accordance with the spirit manifested in the foregoing 

 resolution, the State Board of Agriculture hereby suggests and recommends 

 that at the business meeting of the alumni, to be held at the College on 

 June 17, there be elected from the alumni an advisory council of six mem- 

 bers, whose duty it shall be to confer together from time to time upon 

 the general welfare of the institution. And finally, Be it 



Resolved by this board in regular session, that we hereby extend to 

 such advisory council, as soon as it shall be organized, an invitation to 

 meet with us, at least once each year, and as much oftener as said council 

 shall consider desirable, for the purpose of mutual conference upon all 

 matters pertaining to the work of the College. 



This ten-year-old invitation from the board was heartily 

 accepted by the Alumni Association and directions were voted 

 as to the method by which the new council should be constituted. 

 Prolonged tardiness on the part of the alumni in creating this 

 new board may prove indeed quite other than ominous to its 

 future usefulness. The celerity with which the first council, 

 consisting of R. S. Baker 1889, Eugene Davenport 1878, Wil- 

 liam Prudden 1878, George J. Jenks 1889, E. N. Pagleson 1889, 

 and L. W. Watkins 1893, has organized for its purposes fairly 

 atones for the delay. 



Subordinate in the interest which they aroused but scarcely 

 so in importance were the additional topics which aroused 

 discussion. Chief among them were the desirability of a per- 

 manent alumni secretary to be designated by the Board of 

 Agriculture, the preparation of a history of the College through 

 the authority of the Board of Agriculture, and the appointment 

 of a memorial fund committee by the Advisory Council, all of 

 which were recommended by the Alumni Association. 



A review of the proceedings of these notable meetings may close 

 perhaps in no better way than with the final resolution proposed 

 by the committee on resolutions and adopted by the association : 



