244 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



past years. The sons cannot be spared from the farm or the 

 money furnished for a college course without sacrifice. We 

 hope for the good time coming, that it is almost here. 

 When it conies there will be no lack of students at our col- 

 lege. It is not the fault of our care ; it is not the' fault of 

 the college ; it is largely the result of conditions which we 

 hope are passing away. 



That the Board of Agriculture may come into closer re- 

 lations to the college and become more useful to it by bring- 

 ing to young men a knowledge of the opportunity here 

 offered for an education, we would suggest that the law re- 

 lating to free scholarships be so modified or amended that it 

 may become the duty and privilege of each member of the 

 Board to appoint at least one candidate for admission to the 

 college each year. 



Chapter 20 of the Public Statutes defines and constitutes 

 the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture. Section 3 

 declares that "the Board shall meet at the State House or 

 at the Agricultural College at least once in each year," and 

 section 5 says "The Board shall be a Board of Overseers 

 of the Massachusetts Agricultural College." 



President Goodell, at the winter meeting of this Board, 

 welcomed the members with these words: "I desire to 

 welcome you in behalf of your college, the Massachusetts 

 Agricultural College, founded under your auspices, nurtured 

 by your care, watched over by you." 



The statutes teach us our obligations and define our duties. 

 The appreciative words of the president of the college we 

 believe were not simply complimentary, but just words of 

 deserved praise for the care, the interest, the aid given to 

 this college by this Board. And why is this one college in 

 the State placed under charge of a board of agriculture, and 

 why has this service been gratuitously given for these many 

 years, till the feeble beginning is a grand success? This 

 Board has never forgotten its duty, or failed to help and to 

 sustain in time of need. Money has been given, work has 

 been done, time has been devoted to this college, — why? 

 Because it ever has been, is now and ever shall be the Mas- 

 sachusetts Agricultural College. A distinctive change in 

 name would be a wrong to those noble men, Clark, Wilder, 



