THE FIRST HALF CENTURY OF THE INSTITUTE. 



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that His Excellency Governor Wolcotf* would be with us 

 to-day, but I have here a letter in which, after a most 



cordial acknowledg- 

 ment, His Excellency 

 says : 



The occasion, I am sure, 

 will be an interestinij; one 

 and it ■would give me much 

 pleasure to be present, but 

 the date falls upon the reg- 

 ular da}- of meeting of the 

 Council and I have never 

 permitted any other engage- 

 ment to interfere with my 

 presence at these Council 

 meetings. Therefore you 

 will please accept my 

 regrets, und believe me 

 Very truly yours, 



KoGKR WOLCOTT. 



President Ean- 

 toul here presented 

 General Appleton 

 of the Governor's 

 staff, — a Vice 

 President of the 

 Institute, — who 



was in uniform, l)einir detailed by His Excellency to 



respond for the Commonwealth. 



General Francis H. Appleton, of Governor Wolcott's 



staff, being introduced, said that as His Excellency was 



unable on account of important business at the State 



EndecoU 



*Only two Governors of Massachusetts have ever lived in Salem. They were 

 Endecott and Bradstreet, and they happen to be the first and the last in the line 

 of colonial governors. The Cadet Armory and Pluniraer Hall stand on an estat« 

 more or less identified with both of tlieni. There is reason to think that it may 



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