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planned that structure which is going up at our Agricultural 

 College, and in which all take such very deep interest, have 

 thought, of course, of the necessities of the form; they have 

 thought of the matter of economy as well ; l)ut I believe that 

 that l)uilding is to teach a lesson to the students who are 

 there, and a lesson which is in this direction, that a thing 

 whi(!h is made first of all perhaps for utility may also be 

 made a thing of beauty, which is a joy forever. 



In this connection I cannot refrain from referring to an- 

 other institution founded in 1868 at Hampton, Va. It was 

 designed to meet the wants of the "despised races" of our 

 country, and to it have flocked the negro and, more re- 

 cently, the Indian also. It has provided for the mental de- 

 velopment of its pupils and for their moral training. It 

 has a department of industries in which the following-named 

 trades are taught : carpentry and wood-working, harness- 

 making, shoe-making ; the trade of the wheelwright, black- 

 smith and tinsmith ; house-painting, printing, tailoring, 

 steam engineering and gasfitting, and the rudiments of the 

 machinist's trade. Agriculture, sewing and housework also 

 are t'\ught. Between six and seven hundred pupils have 

 been annually receiving the l)enefits of a school founded and 

 sustained by the tireless energy of that Christian hero and 

 martyr who, in the flush of early manhood, leaving his 

 Hawaiian home, graduating from our Berkshire College 

 when the threatening storm of civil war had gathered, fight- 

 ing bravely on many a field of that bitter conflict as an ofii- 

 cer of United States colored troops, renewing, after the 

 storm had passed, the consecration of his life to the service 

 of God and of humanity, has, within a few months, been 

 laid to rest, as he himself wished, " in the school graveyard, 

 where one of the students would have been put had he 

 died." 



To the class of institutions established for the purpose of 



investigating and realizing the application of sciences to the 



arts belono- the aoTicultural colleo'es founded under the Con- 

 es o o 



grossional Land Grant Act of 1862. Our interest naturally 

 centres in the Massachusetts Agricultural College, with 

 whose organization and history you are all more or less 

 familiar. 



