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Experiments regarding the influence of special manures on fruits, 

 e tc . 1881. Goessmann . 



The system of preserving green food in silos. 1881. Goessmann. 



Investigations in relation to unconscious bias in walking. 1884. 

 Miles. 



Investigations in reference to bilateral asymmetry of form and 

 function. 1884. Tuckerman, 



Experiments with new varieties of fruit. 1887. Maynard. 



Nor should this college at this hour, and especially in this pres- 

 ence, forget to present its congratulations, and send its God-speed 

 to its twin sister, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both 

 sired, in equine phrase, by "Uncle Sam" out of t% Massa-chusetts." 



In the land of old Laconia t 



Where the Muses still abide, 

 Alpheus fair and young Eurotas 

 Flowed adown the mountain side. 



They were twin- born lovely children, 

 Free as air, and fair as free, 

 From the selfsame fountain springing 

 Life to them a jubilee. 



Not alone on far off hill- sides 

 Twin-born gifts of God do come ; 

 Joyfully we hear their voices 

 Near our Athens here at home. 



It is also our joy to learn that the legislature has just presented her 

 with a conditional dowry of $100.000. 



I shall never forget the pleasure with which a year ago I attended 

 a dinner of the " Associate Alumni." I felt somewhat like Simeon 

 of old, and could not well realize that here within twenty years was 

 this fulf bloom and fruit of a college, a college with an association of 

 graduates indeed. I can therefore imagine with what riper pleasure 

 you, Mr. President, who have known, and taught, and guided and 

 advised, from the day the first student was admitted here, and with 

 what pride and satisfaction Mr/ Merrill, came to this celebration. 

 These are his jewels. These are the beginning only of those long 

 processions, which from every state and territory, I trust to the end 

 of time, will come and go, rejoicing in the lamp of knowledge which 

 he will have presented them, and recognizing him as their father, 

 even as the Jews said " we have Abraham for our father." We 



