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Military Instruction. 



Since the outbreak of the Spanish war the college has been 

 without a military instructor. This we feel to be a great 

 disadvantage, and we trust that soon there will be an army 

 officer assigned to the college, so that the students may re- 

 ceive the same military training as heretofore. The strict 

 discipline and order enforced will be of decided benefit to 

 many of them in after life. 



Advantages and Needs. 



As your committee have year after year visited this col- 

 lege, we are more and more forcibly impressed with the great 

 value of this institution ; and the question is constantly 

 presenting itself. What can be done to show the advantages 

 of the Massachusetts Agricultural College as a place to edu- 

 cate the boys and girls of the Old Bay State? How can 

 they be induced to become interested in the college, — for we 

 feel that, as surely as they are, the agricultural college will not 

 lack for students. Is it advisable to place a paid lecturer in 

 the field, as is being done for other institutions? Or perhaps 

 a person to visit the high schools of the State, and present 

 to the pupils themselves the opportunities offered by our 

 college ? Would it be desirable that each society receiving 

 bounty from the State should have for its topic at one of its 

 institutes the coming year the subject of the college and its 

 advantages? Would this bring it to the attention of the 

 class whom we desire to reach ? 



Your committee feel that there is need of further endow- 

 ments or permanent funds. Of course as the alumni of the 

 college grow older there will be less lack of these than at the 

 present time. We call the attention of the Board to this 

 fact, feeling that perhaps some of us might be enabled to call 

 the attention of some person to this college who would see 

 the necessity and come to the aid of a worthy cause. 



In closing, we desire to call the attention of the Board to 

 the fact that nearly one-half a century of its work is com- 

 pleted ; and, knowing and realizing that great good has been 

 accomplished by the Massachusetts Board of Agriculture, we 



