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Few benefactions are likely to be more permanently useful 

 than modest gifts and bequests of the Faunce type, which would 

 provide desirable school equipment at many points for the more 

 practical elements of the agricultural education of the boys and 

 girls who expect to live their lives and do their work on Massa- 

 chusetts farms. If large discretionary powers were lodged with 

 the trustees, local school authorities or the Board of Education, 

 every interest of future progress would be served, as well as the 

 obvious present need, by such benefactions. 



(7) Finally, it may be said that, since the schools proposed 

 would receive State aid for their maintenance, subject to ap- 

 proval by the Board of Education, the Commissioner of Educa- 

 tion and those representing him might be expected to render, at 

 all stages of the proceedings, every possible assistance to any 

 local community which desired to establish the types of agricul- 

 tural education proposed by this report. 



