No. 4.] AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 367 



Massachusetts Agricultural College. 

 The Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture was not 

 slow to place itself on record when the movement began in 

 Congress to plan for the establishment of colleges for the 

 benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, for we find that 

 on April 7, 1858, the Board — ' 



Resolved, That this Board do most heartily approve of the 

 objects of a bill presented in the House of Representatives, in 

 Congress, Dec. 14, 1857, by Hon. Justin S. Morrill of Vermont, 

 requesting Congress to donate public lands to each State and 

 Territory which may provide colleges for the benefit of Agri- 

 culture and the Mechanic Arts, and that our Senators and 

 Representatives in Congress be requested to render their best 

 aid in securing the passage of said bill into a law ; and that our 

 secretary be requested to serve each of our Senators and Repre- 

 sentatives with a copy of the above. 



At a meeting of the Board, on Jan. 8, 1861, Mr. Levi 

 Stockbridge of Hadley offered the following resolution : — 



Resolved, That in the opinion of this Board, the time has 

 arrived for the inauguration of measures tending to the estab- 

 lishment of an agricultural school of high grade under the 

 patronage of the Commonwealth, 



At a meeting on the 25tli of the same month, on motion 

 of Mr. James S. Grinnell of Greenfield, it was — 



Resolved, That this Board, believing that the establishment 

 of an agricultural school would advance the interests of agri- 

 culture in this Commonwealth, is disposed to give its influence 

 to any well directed plan for such a school. 



Following the adoption of this resolution, Messrs. Mar- 

 shall P. Wilder, Freeman Walker, William S. Clark, Levi 

 Stockbridge and Charles C. Sewall were chosen a committee 

 " to co-operate at their discretion with any men or body of 

 men who may have any plan for an agricultural school, and 

 to present and report their proceedings at the next meeting 

 of the Board." 



