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suits, and that the institution should not be immediately connected 

 with any institution established for other pui'poses. 



Resolved, That a committee of five be appointed to present 

 these resolutions to the committee of the Legislature having the 

 subject under consideration, and to express the views of this 

 Board upon the proper disposition of the Congressional grant. 



The committee provided for in the last resohition was 

 constituted by the appointment of Messrs. Marshall P. 

 Wilder, Paoli Lathrop, George B. Loring, S. B. Phinney, 

 John Brooks, Henry Colt and Charles G. Davis. 



At a meeting held Jan. 30, 18(35, Dr. Loring oflered the 

 following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted : — 



Resolved, That the Agricultural College should maintain an 

 intimate relation to the agricultural societies and the farmers of 

 the Commonwealth, as a means of disseminating practical infor- 

 mation and affording the best means of educating young men for 

 the business of farming. 



Resolved, That, for this purpose, every effort should be made to 

 connect the State Board of Agriculture with the government of 

 the college, for the express object of bringing the agricultural 

 societies into close connection with that institution, and as the 

 most useful method of combining all the efforts of the Common- 

 wealth in one system of practical agricultural education. 



From this time on we find the Board taking the most 

 active interest in the establishment of the college, provid- 

 ing in every possible way for its welfare, and seeking to 

 enter into a closer and more intimate union. We' can do 

 little more than briefly enumerate these continued expres- 

 sions of its good-will. We find it in 18G6 the author of an 

 act constituting the president of the college a member ex 

 officio of the Board ; and further providing that it should be 

 constituted into a Board of Overseers over the college, but 

 without powers to control the action of its trustees or to 

 negative their powers and duties. In this same act the 

 Board was authorized to locate its cabinet and library at the 

 college, and to hold its stated meetings there. 



We next find it in 1867 urging upon the agricultural 

 societies to establish and maintain at least one scholarship 

 at the college. As a result of this etibrt, we find in 1869 



