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training, and he gave $130,000 to enlarge the resources of the 

 Institute. Further endowments were made by Stephen Salis- 

 bury of $250,000, and by the State of Massachusetts of 

 $50,000 giving a total endowment of $557,000. If the surviv- 

 ing members of the Loomis family carry out their present plan, 

 the "Loomis Institute" will have double this endowment. 

 Without even the semblance of dictation in ' the plans which 

 they alone have the right to form, and with a grateful apprecia- 

 tion of the beneficent spirit they evince, I most respectfully 

 suggest to them, and to other wealthy men who desire to become 

 benefactors of the State, this means of meeting a great public 

 need and erecting a lasting monument to their memory. 



The following is the plan of the proposed gift of Mr. AUyn 

 to the city of Hartford, some five years ago. 



To the May or ^ Aldermen and Common Covmcil of the City of 

 Hartford : 



The undersigned hereby offers to give to the City of Hartford 

 the sum of one hundred thousand dollars^ to be expended in the 

 establishment and erection of an industrial school (under such 

 rules and regulations as the authorities of the city may from 

 time to time make), for the free education of both boys and 

 girls in the business avocations of life, agriculture and the 

 mechanic arts. The school should be a model, fashioned 

 after our best ideal. It should possess ample grounds for an 

 agricultural department, botanical gardens, and workshops, 

 where all the principal trades may be learned. Every boy, 

 at the same time he is acquiring a knowledge of the arts, 

 sciences and modern languages, should become a practical 

 agriculturist, or master some useful trade. The girls should 

 be instructed in all the practical duties of the household, be- 

 come familiar with the chemistry of the kitchen, and made 

 to master the art of making any article of a lady's wa'rdrobe, 

 and also they may learn bookkeeping, banking, telegraphy, 

 photography or any other occupation that is within the meas- 

 ure of their strength and adapted to their tastes. In this 

 manner the education of the student would become a health- 

 ful exercise and a most fascinating amusement, instead of 

 being (like the present system) destructive to vitality, exhaust- 



