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gible in the compass of a letter. The Sheffield Scientific 

 School at the time of the passage of the Hatch Act, 1887, as in 

 all its history previous to that time, was spending consider- 

 ably more than its income — was, in other words, obliged to 

 use every year more or less of the funds which it was extremely 

 desirable to keep as a permanent investment. It was for 

 several reasons thought imprudent for the School to set up a 

 new Exp. Station. The Hatch act required, should the School 

 claim its benefits, that land and buildings should be pro- 

 vided, for which the School had no funds. The Governing 

 Board addressed a letter to the State Authorities waiving 

 their claim to the fund ($15,000) in favor of the State Exp. 

 Station. Already the movement which culminated last year 

 in making the "Storrs School" into the "Storrs College of 

 Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts ' ' was in the air, and those 

 who engineered the latter movement secured the establish- 

 ment in 1887 of the Storrs Ag. Exp. Station, having, so they 

 claim, previously "tinkered" the Hatch bill to make a divi- 

 sion of the Hatch fund possible in this State. This was a 

 preliminary step towards that result which is set forth in the 

 "Report of Committee on Education — National Grange B. of 

 H., 1892" signed by Alpha Messer, and especially in the 

 Resolution therein submitted, "That the National Grange 

 Legislative Committee be instructed to continue their efforts 

 for the passage of a law by Congress requiring the different 

 states which have united the Agricultural and Mechanical 

 Colleges with classical institutions to separate the Agricultural 

 and Mechanical Colleges from the classical" etc. etc. 



I mail to your address a package of five documents — four 

 Reports of the Sheffield Scientific School and a paper on 

 Recent Legislation — with references on covers to printed 

 statements that explain the situation at some length and in 

 some respects. I shall be happy to answer any further 

 inquiries as far as I am able. Very truly yours, 



S. W. Johnson. 



