62 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Evening Session. 



The meeting was called together by President H. H. 

 Goodell of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, who 

 said: The subject of the lecture this evening is "Some 

 Lessons from the Census." I think some of you may have 

 said in your hearts that a skeleton made up of facts and 

 figures would be dry. I am sure if any man could quicken 

 into life that same skeleton of bones, it is the lecturer 

 to-night. 



Those of you who are old enough will doubtless remember 

 that seven and thirty years ago the Legislature of this Com- 

 monwealth accepted a grant from Congress of three hundred 

 and sixty thousand acres of public domain, with the proviso 

 that the money derived from the sale of that land should 

 establish and maintain at least one college of agriculture and 

 mechanic arts. The Legislature immediately founded and 

 established the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, giving 

 them one-third of the income derived, and three days later, 

 I think it was, they established the Massachusetts Agricult- 

 ural College, in that way providing for the college of agri- 

 culture and mechanic arts. I have the great pleasure of 

 introducing to you Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, the president 

 of our twin institution, the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology. 



