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grant should be principally devoted to the establishment 

 of an educational institution for the practical and scientific 

 study of agriculture and for the instruction of youths who 

 intend to follow industrial pursuits, and that the institu- 

 tion should not be immediately connected with any insti- 

 tution established for other purposes. 



Resolved, That a committee of five be appointed to 

 present these resolutions to the committee of the Legisla- 

 ture having the subject under consideration, and to express 

 the views of this Board upon the proper disposition of the 

 Congresssional grant. 



The committee provided for in the last resolution was 

 constituted by the appointment of Messrs. Marshall P. 

 Wilder, Paoli Lathrop, George B. Loring, S. B. Phinney, 

 John Brooks, Henry Colt, and Charles G. Davis. 



At a meeting held January 30, 1865, Dr. Loring offered 

 the following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted : 



Resolved, That the agricultural College should maintain 

 an intimate relation to the agricultural societies and the 

 farmers of the Commonwealth, as a means of disseminating 

 practical inf ormation and affording the best means of edu- 

 cating young men for the business of farming. 



Resolved, That, for this purpose, every effort should be 

 made to connect the State Board of Agriculture with the 

 government of the college, for the express object of bringing 

 the agricultural societies into close connection with that 

 institution, and as the most useful method of combining all 

 the efforts of the Commonwealth in one system of practical 

 agricultural education. 



