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Leverett M. Chase said Mr. Flint was his friend, and when the 

 death of that friend was announced his first feeling was that of 

 personal bereavement. There was never a firmer or a stauncher 

 friend. He knew Mr. Flint as a boy. His tastes were inherited 

 and were developed by the farmer life of his early years. When 

 he was teaching in Cambridge he became deeply interested in the 

 cause of education. He was one of the first and most active per- 

 sons in the movement to establish the Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College, and later on was as ardent a worker in the founding of 

 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As a member of the 

 School Committee of the cit}' of Boston, his lively interest in the 

 higher education of our youth caused him to be placed upon the 

 Sub-Committee on the English High School and the Public Latin 

 School. He also took a great interest in the erection of the present 

 building for those schools. He was also on the Sub-Committee 

 in Mr. Chase's own district. Mr. Flint was free from everj^thing 

 that could look like a job ; he would not accept carriage hire as a 

 perquisite, although the state of his health, enfeebled by hard 

 study while at Andover from which he never recovered, made 

 riding necessary in the discharge of his official duties. He had a 

 very strong sense of duty and felt bound never to think himself 

 too feeble to respond to just calls upon his time and services. He 

 is now resting from those labors here ; but we believe his spirit is 

 still active and loving in his home above, and free from any sense 

 of weariness and thought of unrequited toil. 



William C. Strong was very glad to hear this just tribute to the 

 character of Mr. Flint. He was sufficiently acquainted with him 

 to know that he was an able, true-hearted, and earnest man, who 

 had done good service to the cause of Agriculture, and though he 

 had not taken an active part in the affairs of this Society', yet his 

 sympathj- and warm interest had always been with us, and the 

 consciousness of it had given us strength. 



O. B. Hadwen said it was his good fortune to be associated with 

 Mr. Flint in several ways, and especially in the Massachusetts 

 Board of Agriculture. There was much hard work to be done by 

 the Secretary of the Board, to effect the organization of the depart- 

 ment upon a basis so well planned as to secure permanence. For 

 this duty Mr. Flint was found to be peculiarly well qualified, as he 

 was also to formulate and carr^* on the business of that depart- 

 ment, which he did with great success during a period of twenty- 



