LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. GIFT OF C/^ss GENERAL CATALOGUE Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1862-1886. GENERAL CATALOGUE Massachusetts Agricultural College, INCLUDING THE OFFICERS OF GOVERNMENT AND INSTRUCTION, SKETCHES OF THE ALUMNI, OCCUPATIONS - AND ADDRESSES OF THE NON-GRAD- UATES, AND OTHER MATTERS OF INTEREST RELATING TO THE COLLEGE. 1862-1886. UNIVERSITY AMHERST, MASS. 1886, J. E. WILLIAMS, PRINTER, AMHERST, MASS. THIS WORK IS INSCRIBED TO THE ALUMNI OF THE MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE -BY- 77. II. GOODELL and F. TUCKKRMAN. Table of Contents. PAGE CATALOGUE OF OFFICERS OF GOVERNMENT AND INSTRUCTION, 5 PRESIDENTS, 5 TRUSTEES, 5 SECRETARIES, 7 TREASURERS, 7 AUDITORS, . . 8 OVERSEERS, 8 EXAMINING COMMITTEE OF OVERSEERS, 8 ANNIVERSARY ORATORS, 9 PROFESSORS, 10 LECTURERS, 11 INSTRUCTORS, 13 LIBRARIANS, 15 FARM SUPERINTENDENTS, 16 GARDENERS, 16 SUPERINTENDENTS OF NURSERIES, 16 OFFICERS OF GOVERNMENT AND INSTRUCTION, 1886, 17 OFFICERS OF ALUMNI ASSOCIATION AND CLASS SECRETARIES, 20 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF ALUMNI, 21 CATALOGUE AND ADDRESSES OF NON-GRADUATES, 76 SUMMARY, 92 COLLEGE HONOUR MEN, 93 EXPERIMENTS CONDUCTED AT THE COLLEGE, 95 SKETCHES OF DECEASED OFFICERS OF THE COLLEGE, 98 CHRONOLOGY, 108 INDEX. 117 NOTE. This catalogue has been verified directly from those concerned or then- friends, and will be found to vary occasionally from the annual reports and records of the college. OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CATALOGUE Officers of Government and Instruction PRESIDENTS. 1864 Hon. HENRY FLAGG FRENCH, M.A 18G6 1866 Hon. PAUL ANSEL CHADBOURNE, M.D., D.D., LL.D 1867 1867 Col. WILLIAM SMITH CLARK, Ph.D., LL.D. . . 1879 1879 CHARLES Louis FLINT, M.A., LL.B 1880 1880 Hon. LEVI STOCKBRIDGE 1882 1882. Hon. PAUL ANSEL CHADBOURNE, M.D., D.D., LL.D 1883 1883 JAMES CARRUTHERS GREENOUGII, M.A TRUSTEES. 1863 Hon. MARSHALL PINCKNEY WILDER, Ph.D., LL.D. 1863 Hon. CHARLES GIDEON DAVIS, B.A 1863 NATHAN DURFEE, M.A., M.D 1876 1863 Hon. JOHN BROOKS . . 1863 1863 HENRY COLT, Esq 1863 WILLIAM STEUBEN SOUTIIWORTII, Esq 1864 1863 Rev. CHARLES CHAUNCY SEWALL, M.A. . . . . 1877 1863 PAOLI LATHROP, Esq 1872 2 6 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 1863 PHINEAS STEDMAN, Esq 1863 Hon. ALLEN WASHINGTON DODGE, B.A 1878 1863 Hon. GEORGE MABSTON . 1878 1863 His P^xc. WILLIAM BARRETT WASHBURN, LL.D., Gov. of Mass .1878 1863 Prof. HENRY LAURENS WHITING 1885 1863 JOHN BOWNE KING, M.D. 1863 1863 His Exc. JOHN ALBION ANDREW, LL.D., Gov. of Mass 1866 1863 CHARLES Louis FLINT, M.A., LL.B., Sec. Bd. of Agric 1880 1864 Hon. DANIEL WALDO LINCOLN, B.A 1872 1864 Hon. HENRY FLAGG FRENCH, M.A 1866 1865 HENRY FRANCIS HILLS, Esq 1879 1865 EBENEZER FRANCIS BOWDITCH, Esq 1867 1866 His Exc. ALEXANDER HAMILTON BULLOCK, LL.D., Gov. of Mass 1869 1866 Hon. PAUL ANSEL CHADBOURNE, M.D., D.D., LL.D 1867 1866 Hon. JOSEPH WHITE, LL.D., Sec. Bd. of Edu- cation 1877 1867 Hon. JOSEPH ADAMS POND 1867 1867 Col. WILLIAM SMITH CLARK, Ph.D., LL.D. . . 1879 1868 Hon. DANIEL NKEDHAM 1869 His Exc. WILLIAM CLAFLIN, LL.D., Gov. of Mass. 1872 1872 Hon. WILLIAM KNOWLTON 1872 Hon. JOHN CUMMINGS 1886 1874 His Honor THOMAS TALBOT, LL.D., Lieut. -Gov. of Mass 1875 1875 His Exc. WILLIAM GASTON, LL.D., Gov. of Mass. 1876 1876 His Exc. ALEXANDER HAMILTON RICE, LL.D., Gov. of Mass 1879 1877 Hon. RICHARD GOODMAN, B.A., LL.B 1880 1877 JOHN WOODBRIDGE DICKINSON, M.A., Sec. Bd. of Education. GENERAL CATALOGUE. 1878 Hon. JAMES SEYMOUR GRINNELL, M.A 1879 BENJAMIN POND WARE, Esq 1879 OBADIAH BROWN HADWEN, Esq 1885 1879 His Exc. THOMAS TALBOT, LL.D., Gov. of Mass. 1880 1880 His Exc. JOHN DAVIS LONG, LL.D., Gov. of Mass 1883 1880 Hon. LEVI STOCKBRIDGE 1882 1880 GEORGE NOYES, P^sq 1880 JONAH HOWE DEMOND, Esq 1880 WILLIAM WHEELER, B.Sc 1882 1880 JOHN EDWARD RUSSELL, Esq., Sec. Bd. of Agric. 1882 Hon. PAUL ANSEL CHADBOURNE, M.D., D.D., LL.D 1883 1882 EDWARD CARLISLE CHOATE, B.Sc 1884 1883 His Exc. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN BUTLER, M.A., Gov. of Mass 1884 1883 JAMES CARRUTHERS GREENOUGH, M.A. ... 1 1884 His Exc. GEORGE DEXTER ROBINSON, LL.D., Gov. of Mass . 1885 WILLIAM HENRY BOWKER, B.Sc 1885 ARTHUR AMBER BRIGHAM, B.Sc 1885 Hon. WILLIAM ROBERT SESSIONS 1886 Hon. THOMAS PITKIN ROOT SECRETARIES. 18(53 CHARLES Louis FLINT, LL.B 1885 1885 GEORGE NOYES, Esq TREASURERS. 1864 NATHAN DURFEE, M.D 1876 1868 GEORGE MONTAGUE, Esq., Assist 1876 1876 GEORGE MONTAGUE, Esq 1879 1879 Hon. JOHN CUMMINGS. . . 1883 8 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 1883 Hon. DANIEL NEEDHAM 1884 1884 OBADIAH BROWN HADWEN, Esq 1886 1886 FRANK EDWIN PAIGE, Esq AUDITORS. 1864 Hon. ALLEN WASHINGTON DODGE 1866 1866 Hon. DANIEL WALDO LINCOLN 1870 1870 HENRY COLT, Esq BOARD OF OVERSEERS. THE STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. EXAMINING COMMITTEE OF OVERSEERS. 1868 JEAN Louis RODOLPHE AGASSIZ, M.D., Ph.D., LL.D 1872 1868 Hon. GEORGE AUGUSTUS KING 1869 1868 Capt. JOHN BROOKS MOORE 1869 1869 AVERY PARKER SLADE, Esq 1870 1869 TIMOTHY D WIGHT THATCHER, Esq 1870 1870 Hon. RICHARD GOODMAN 1871 1870 Col. ELIPHALET STONE 1871 1871 Hon. WILLIAM KNOWLTON 1872 1871 FARWELL FOSTER FAY, LL.B 1872 1871 NEWTON SIMEON HUBBARD, Esq 1872 1871 JOHN JOHNSON, Esq 1872 1872 Hon. LEVERETT SALTONSTALL, M.A., LL.B. . . . 1873 1872 Hon. SYLVANUS BOURNE PHINNEY 1873 1872 ANDREW JACKSON BUCKLIN, Esq 1873 1873 Hon. HORACE POOL WAKEFIELD, M.A., M.D. . 1874 1873 Hon. ENSIGN HOSMER KELLOGG, B.A 1874 1873 Capt. JOHN BROOKS MOORE 1874 1874 Hon. PAUL ANSEL CHADBOURNE, LL.D 1875 GENERAL CATALOGUE. 9 1874 Hon. THOMAS FITKIN ROOT 1875 1874 JOSEPH NEWELL STURTEVANT, Esq 1875 1875 Hon. EDMUND HATCH BENNETT, LL.D 1877 1875 CHARLES SPRAGUE SARGENT, B.A 187U 1875 HENRY STERLING GOODALE, Esq 1876 1876 OBADIAH BROWN HADWEN, Esq 1879 1876 Capt. JOHN BROOKS MOORE 1881 1876 Hon. PAUL ANSEL CHADBOURNE, LL.D 1878 1876 JAMES NEWTON BAGG, Esq 1879 1878 JAMES ROBINSON NICHOLS, M.A., M.D 1880 1879 JOHN FENNER BROWN, P^sq 1881 1879 AVERT PARKER SLADE, Esq 1884 1879 EBENEZER FRANCIS BOWDITCH, Esq 1882 1880 JAMES PORTER LYNDE, M.D. ....... 1883 1881 GEORGE JEWETT, M.D 1884 1881 MERRITT IVES WHEELER, Esq 1882 1882 Hon. WILLIAM ROBERT SESSIONS 1882 DANIEL EDWIN DAMON, Esq 1883 ATKINSON CLAYTON VARNUM, Esq 1883 JONATHAN BUDDINGTON, Esq 1886 1884 SAMUEL BRADFORD BIRD, Esq. ....... 1884 JOEL HENRY GODDARD, Esq . 1886 Prof. HENRY LAURENS WHITING ANNIVERSARY ORATORS. 1871 Hon. GEORGE BAILEY LORING, B.A., M.D. 1872 Pres. DANIEL CoiT GILMAN, LL.D. 1873 Hon. JUSTIN SMITH MORRILL, LL.D. 1874 Hon. PAUL ANSEL CHADBOURNE, D.D., LL.D. 1875 Pres. WILLIAM FAIRFIELD WARREN, D.D., LL.D. 1S7C> Pres. CHARLES FREDERIC ALLEN, D.D. 1882 Rev. MATTHEW BROWN RIDDLE, D.D. 1883 Hon. GEORGE BAILEY LORING, B.A., M.D. 1884 CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN, M.A. 1885 Rev. ANDREW PRESTON PEABODY, D.D., LL.D. 12 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. HYGIENE. 1868 CALVIN CUTTER, M.A., M.D. ....... 1870 COMPARATIVE ANATOMY. 1869 EDWARD HITCHCOCK, M.A., M.D. ..... 1871 HORTICULTURE AND FLORICULTURE. 1869 Hon. MARSHALL PINCKNEY WILDER, Ph.D., LL.D. 1871 1871 SAMUEL JUNIUS PARKER, M.A., M.D 1871 CIVIL POLITY. 1869 Hon. JOSEPH WHITE, LL.D 1872 ENTOMOLOGY. 1869 ALPHEUS SPRING PACKARD, M.A., M.D. . . . 1877 1869 HENRY HILL GOODELL, M.A 1869 PHYSICS. 1869 EBENEZER STRONG SNELL, LL.D 1871 ENGLISH LITERATURE. 1869 Rev. LAURENUS CLARK SEELYE, D.D 1870 ARBORICULTURE. 1870 GEORGE BARRELL EMERSON, LL.D 1871 RURAL LAW. 1871 MARQUIS FAYETTE DICKINSON, Jr., M.A. . . . 1878 1882 ROBERT WORTHINGTON LYMAN, B.Sc., LL.B. . . 1882 SCULPTURE AND GERMAN LITERATURE. 1871 RICHARD HENRY MATHER, D.D 1872 ZOOLOGY. 1880 JOHN MASON TYLER, M.A 1881 1885 JOHN MASON TYLER, M.A . . 1886 GENERAL CATALOGUE. 13 GEOLOGY. 1880 BENJAMIN KENDALL EMERSON, Ph.D 1882 1884 BENJAMIN KENDALL EMERSON, Ph.D 1885 ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY. 1880 EDWARD HITCHCOCK, M.A., M.D 1881 1884 FREDERICK TUCKERMAN, B.Sc., M.D INSTRUCTORS. AGHICULTURE. 1867 LEVI STOCKBRIDGE 1872 1883 JOHN WESLEY CLARK, B.Sc 1884 (,')'. \TNAS TICS AND MILITARY TACTICS. 1867 HENRY HILL GOODELL, M.A . 1869 RHETORIC, ELOCUTION, AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE. 1869 ELISHA HUBBARD BARLOW, Ph.D., Elocution . . 1870 1870 ELIHU ROOT, Ph.D., Elocution 1871 1871 Rev. ROBERT McEwEN WOODS, M.A., Elocution . 1872 1871 HENRY HILL GOODELL, M.A 1873 1871 . Rev. HENRY WEBSTER PARKER, M.A 1879 1879 Capt. CHARLES MORRIS, U. S. A., Composition . 1881 1882 EDWARD HITCHCOCK, Jr., M.D., Elocution . . . 1883 1883 AUSTIN BRADLEY BASSE-IT, B.A., Elocution . . . 1884 1883 HENRY HILL GOODELL, M.A 1885 1885 Rev. JOHN WILLIAM LANE, M.A., Elocution . 1886 JAMES CARRUTHERS GREENOUGH, M.A. .... A NA TO MY A ND 1>H YSIO LOG Y. 1869 HENRY HILL GOODELL, M.A 1871 187<; Rev. HENRY WEBSTER PARKER, M.A 1879 1882 HENRY HILL GOODELL, M.A 1883 188:5 FREDERICK TUCKERMAN, M.D 1884 3 14 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. ZOOLOGY. 1869 HENRY HILL GOODELL, M.A 1870 1871 Rev. HENRY WEBSTER PARKER, M.A 1872 1877 Rev. HENRY WEBSTER PARKER, M.A 1879 1882 PAUL ANSEL CHADBOURNE, M.A 1883 1884 HORACE EDWARD STOCKBRIDGE, Ph.D 1884 1885 JOHN MASON CLARKE, M.A 18sf> DRAWING. 18G9 Major HKNRY ELIJAH ALVORD, U. 8. A. ... 1871 1872 Lieut. ABNER HILHOUSE MERRILL, U. S. A. . . 1875 1875 Lieut. CHARLES ADELE LEWIS TOTTEN, U. S. A. . 1878 1878 SAMUEL TAYLOR MAYNARD, ?>.Sc MATHEMATICS AND CIVIL ENGINEERING. 1870 MARTIN HEALD FISK, M.A 1871 1870 JOHN KENDALL RICHARDSON, M.A 1871 VOCAL MUSIC. 1870 GEORGE MILLER 1871 1871 GEORGE CHENEY 1872 1882 CHARLES LOAMMI HARRINGTON, M.A 1882 MINERALOGY AND GEOLOGY. 1870 Rev. HENRY WEBSTER PARKER, M.A 1872 1875 Rev. HENRY WEBSTER PARKER, M.A 1879 1883 PAUL ANSEL CHADBOURNE, M.A 1883 LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 1871 Rev. HENRY WEBSTER PARKER, M.A 1879 1880 SAMUEL TAYLOR MAYNARD, B.Sc 1881 PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. 1872 Rev. HENRY WEBSTER PARKER, M.A 1873 1877 Rev. HENRY WEBSTER PARKER, M.A. 1879 GENERAL CATALOGUE. 15 HISTORY. 1872 HENRY HILL GOODELL, M.A 1883 1883 JAMES CARRUTHERS GREENOUGH, M.A BOOK-KEEPING. 1875 GEORGE MONTAGUE, Esq 1879 ROADS AND RAILROADS. 1875 Lieut. CHARLES ADELE LEWIS TOTTEN, U.S. A.; M.A. 1878 MICROSCOPY. 1878 SAMUEL TAYLOR MAYNARD, B.Sc CHEMISTRY. 1881 HORACE EDWARD STOCKBRIDGE, Ph.D 1882 ENTOMOLOGY. 1882 PAUL ANSEL CHADBOURNE, M.A 1883 1883 WINFRID ALDEN STEARNS, B.A 1883 1886 SAMUEL TAYLOR MAYNARD, B.Sc . HISTORY AND POLITICAL ECONOMY. 1883 JAMES CARRUTHERS GREENOUGH, M.A FRENCH. 1885 WILLIAM LEWIS MONTAGUE, M.A 1885 GERMAN. l7<; o Thomas P. 7, 9, 17 Perry Alfred D. 87 Putnam George H. 87 Rose Newton A. Ss Arthur R. 87 Henry A. 87 Peters Austin 1881 Ran kin Austin A. 87 Rotch Caleb L. 88 Phelps Charles H. 187C Rawson Edward B. 1881 Rowland Clarence W. 88 Charles S. 1885 Henry L. 1874 John C. 87 Redding Merton J. 88 Rudolph Charles 1*7'.' 17 12G MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. Russell Shiverick Southworth o John E. 7, 17 Asa F. 1882 Charles H. 89 William D. 1871 o William S. 5, 109 Simpson Sage Henry B. 1873 Spalding o George E. 10, 19 Abel W. 1881 Slade Getfrge E. 89 Salisbury A very P. 8, 9 Frank B. 1872 Denisoii R. 88 Sparrow Lewis V A. 1871 Saltonstall S lattery Leverett 8 William 88 Spaulding Charles P. S9 Sanderson Charles F. 88 Robert W. 88 Smead Edwin B. 1871 Spofford Amos L. 1878 Sanger Frank H. 88 Smith Benjamin S. 88 Spooner Frank A. 89 Herbert C. 88 Frank L. 88 Frank S. 1874 Stearns Sargent Charles S. 9, 112 George P. 1879 Hermann K. 88 Hiram F. M. 1881 Richard S. 89 oWinfridA. 15 Sattler Hermann C. 88 James M. 88 John L. 89 Joseph B. 89 S ted man o Phineas 6, 17 Sears Llewellyn 1884 Thomas E. 1876 Stewart John M. 1876 Walter S. 89 William C. 89 William E. 89 Seel ye William Hender- Stickney o Laurenus C. 12 son 89 o Josiah H. 1 1 William Henry 89 Selden John L. 88 William O. 8*9 William R. 89 Stockbridge Horace E. ]878 Willis P. 89 10, 14, 15 Sessions oLevi 5, 7, 11, 13, o William R. 7, Snell 16, 18, 95, 96,97, 9, 17, !>> o Ebenezer S. 110, 112, 113, 10, 12, 110 114 Sewall o Charles C. 5 Sexton Snow George H. 20 1872 Laban 89 Stone Almon H. ] 880 Eliphalet 8 Fremont E. 89 Edward B. 88 Somers George E. 89 Winthrop E. 1882 Shauo'hnessy John J. 88" Frederick M. 1872 Strain Shaw Charles J. 88 Southmayd John E. 1877 William 89 Street Elliot D. 1872 Whiting 113 Southwick Sherman Andre A. 16, 96 1875 Strickland Walter A. 1879 Alonzo L. 89 George P. 1871 GENERAL CATALOGUE. 127 Sturtevant Try on Warriner Joseph N. 9 Charles 0. 90 Alfred A. 90 Swan Tucker Washburu Roscoe W. 1879 Charles E. 90 John H. 1878 Frederick D. 90 o William B. 6 *Swazey Frederick H. 90 Walter W. 89 George H. 1871 Watkis Wilson M. 90 James E. 90 Swift Frank M. 89 Tucker m an Webb George A. 89 Frederick 1878 James H. 20 1873 O 13, 19, 20, 97 Taft Weeks - Cyrus A. 1876 LeviR. 11 1882 Tyler o John M. 12, 15, Herman F. 1875 19 Wellington Talbot o Thomas 6, 7 Urner Frank G. 90 Charles 10, 19, 115 1873 Taylor George P. 1876 Wells Alfred H. 1882 Vaill Henry 1872 Frederic P. 1881 Henry M. 89 William H. 90 West Isaac N. 1885 Frank H. 90 Ralph I. 89 Varnum Atkinson C. 9, 18 Wetherell Tekirian Leander 114 Benoni 1885 Vose Thatcher Timothy D. 8 Edwin F. 90 W adley Wetmore Howard G. 1876 Thomas George D. 90 Wheeler George H. 89 John L. 90 Wakefield Albert T. 1873 Charles A. 90 Henry L. 90 Homer J. 1883 Thompson Edgar E. 20 1871 Samuel C. 1872 Thurston Louise M. 90 Horace P. 8 Waldron Hiram E. B. 20 1879 Walker Merritt I. 9 William 7 Wheelock Victor L. 90 1871 Wilbur H. 1882 James B. 90 Whitaker Tilson Ware Arthur 1881 David H. 16 o Benjamin P. 7, 17 WillardC. 16 1871 White Totten o Joseph (>, 1 2 o Charles A. L. 10, Warner 14, 15, 94, 96, 113 Towne Clarence D. 1881 10, 19, 114 Seth S. 1873 Whiting o Henry L. <;,!>, 18 Frank A. 90 Towns ley Herbert M. 90 William E. 90 Warren William F. 9 Whitney Frank 'Le P. William C. 1871 1872 128 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. Whittemore Windsor Woolsoii Joseph S. 90 Joseph L. 1882 George C. 91 Wilcox Henry H. 1881 Wing- Edgar R. 91 Wright Augustus H. 91 Wilder John E. 1882 o Marshall P. 5, Winslow Edgar D. 91 Wiiyesugi TallK. 91 12, 17, 108, 110, 115 Wolfe Walter M. 91 Wyman Willard Joseph 1877 Daniel 90 Wood Frank W. 1873 Yamao Williams Lewis N. 91 Teiietaro 9 1 Henry W. 90 Wilbur 91 James S. 1882 Youchi John E. 20 1876 Woodburv Geamoii 91 Willn Rufus P." 1878 W lllo John W. 90 Young Woodhull Charles E. 91 Wilmarth Frederick A. 91 George G. 91 Zabriskie Frank II. 91 Wilson Woodman Alvin R. 91 Edward E. 1874 Zeller Winchester Woods Bruce S. 91 Harrie M. 1874 John F. 11 1875 o Robert M. 13 William M. 91 ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. Page 57. Charles E. Lyman married 8th June, 1886, at Walliiigford, Ct., Emma C. Hall. P. 86, for Edward Dana Nash read Edwin Dana Nash. P. 102, line 33, for manuel read manual. P. 103, line 26, for his read the. P. 105, line 1 ; read Protozoa. P. 105, line 14; read Sponges. GENERAL ACTS OF THE United States and Massachusetts, RELATING TO THE Agricultural College, Mttlj ^mwibmtnts antr ^trbittons Cjjmt0> 1863-1886. ALSO THE BY-LAWS OF THE CORPORATION PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF A COMMITTEE OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES. BOSTON: P. H. FOSTER & Co., Printers, 30 Oliver Street. EXPLANATION. To the Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts Agricultural College : GENTLEMEN, In preparing this edition of the Acts, both national and state, relating to the Agricultural College, your committee have followed the arrangement that is adopted by the Commissioner of Cor- porations of Massachusetts, in arranging the Corporation Acts. The various amendments and modifications are inserted with that portion of the principal Act to which they refer, but in such a way that the original Act can be seen as unmodified, and also in its modified form. Sections and parts of sections, however, which relate to matters that have been accomplished, are omitted ; also, all State Acts or Resolves relating to appropriations which have been fulfilled, are omitted. Provisions enclosed by brackets, thus, [ ] have been superseded or repealed. Important provisions are printed in italics. Respectfully submitted, W. H. BOWKER, A. A. BRIGHAM, GEO. NOYES, Committee on By -Laws and codification of Acts relating to the Agri- cultural College. BOSTON, February, 1886. GENERAL UNITED STATES ACT IN RELATION TO AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES. (United States Statutes, Vol. 12, Chap. 130, P. 503). An Act donating Public Lands to the several States and Territories which may provide Colleges for the benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled: That there be granted to the several States, for the purpose hereinafter mentioned, an amount of public land, to be apportioned to each State a quantity equal to thirty thousand acres for each Senator and Representative in congress to which the States are respec- tively entitled by the apportionment under the census of eighteen hundred and sixty : provided, that no mineral lands shall be selected or purchased under the provisions of this act. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted : That the land aforesaid, after being surveyed, shall be apportioned to the several States in sections or subdivisions of sections, not less than one quarter of a section ; * * * said scrip to be sold by said States and the proceeds thereof applied to the uses and purposes prescribed in this act, and for 110 other use or purpose whatsoever: * * * SEC. 4. And be it further enacted: That all moneys derived from the sale of the lands aforesaid, by the States to which the lands are apportioned, and from the sales of land scrip hereinbefore provided for, shall be invested in stocks of the United States, or of the States, or some other safe stocks, yielding not less than five per centum upon the par value of said stocks ; and that the moneys so invested shall constitute a perpetual fund, the capital of which shall remain forever undiminished (except so far as may be pro- vided in section fifth in this act), and the interest of which shall be inviolably appropriated by each State which may take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without 611 to each Howappor- Scrip may be lands to be in- JStttea perpet" to support one cultuf e and^"" mechanic arts. Conditions of this grant. Assent of State. Diminution of funds to be made up by States. Annual interest to be applied regularly. No portion to be applied to buildings. Any State claiming the benefits of this act to provide a college within five years. Annual report of college. States in rebel- lion not to have benefit of this act. excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including mitt- tary tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legis- latures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to pro- mote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the grant of land and land scrip hereby authorized shall be made on the following conditions, to which, as well as to the provisions hereinbefore contained, the previous assent of the several States shall be signi- fied by legislative acts : FIRST. If any portion of the fund invested, as provided by the foregoing section, or any portion of the interest thereon, shall, by any action or contingency, be diminished or lost, it shall be replaced by the State to which it belongs, so that the capital of the fund shall remain forever undiminished ; and the annual interest shall be regularly applied without diminution to the purposes named in the fourth section of this act, except that a sum not exceeding ten per centum upon the amount received by any State under the provisions of this act, may be expended for the purchase of lands for sites or experimental farms, whenever authorized by the respective legislatures of said States. SECOND. No portion of said fund, nor the interest thereon, shall be applied, directly or indirectly, iinder any pretence what- ever, to the purchase, erection, preservation, or repair of an\ building or buildings. THIRD. Any State which may take and claim the benefit of the provisions of this act shall provide within five years, at least not less than one college, as described in the fourth section of this act, or the grant to such State shall cease ; and said State shall be bound to pay the United States the amount received of any lands previously sold, and that the title to purchasers under the State shall be valid. FOURTH. An annual report is to be made regarding the progress of each college, recording any improvements and experiments made, with their cost and results, and such other matters, including State industrial and economical statistics, as may be supposed useful ; one copy of which shall be transmitted by mail free, by each, fo all the other colleges which may be endowed under the provisions of this act, and also one copy to the Secretary of the Interior. SIXTH. No State while in a condition of rebellion or insur- rection against the government of the United States shall be entitled to the benefit of this act. Approved July 2, 1862. colleges. OFFICERS DETAILED TOR COLLEGES, (United States Rev. Statutes, 1878). SEC. 1225. The President may, upon the application of any officers for established college or university within the United States, having colleges, capacity to educate, at the same time, not less than one hundred and fifty male students, detail an officer of the Army to act as president, superintendent, or professor thereof; but the number of officers so detailed shall not exceed thirty at any time, and they shall be apportioned throughout the United States, as nearly as may be practicable, according to population. Officers so de- tailed shall be governed by general rules prescribed from time to time by the President. The Secretary of War is authorized to issue at his discretion and under proper regulations to be pre- scribed by him, out of any small arms or pieces of field artillery Arms for belonging to the Government and which can be spared for that purpose, such number of the same as may appear to be required for military instruction and practice by the students of any college or university under the provisions of this section ; and the Secre- tary shall require a bond in each case, in double the value of the property, for the care and safe keeping thereof, and for the return of the same when required. ENGINEERS IN NAVY DETAILED FOR COLLEGES, (Sup. Revised U. S. Statutes, Vol. I, Chap. 105). That, for the purpose of promoting a knowledge of steam- engineering and iron-ship building among the young men of the United States, the President may upon the application of an established scientific school or college within the United States, detail an officer from the engineer corps of the Navy as professor in such school or college : provided, that the number of officers so detailed shall not at any time exceetl twenty-five, and such details shall be governed by rules to be prescribed from time to time by the President : and provided further, that such details may be withheld or withdrawn, whenever, in the judgment of the President, the interests of the public service shall so require. Standard Weights and Measures for Agricultural Colleges, (United States Statutes, Vol. 21, Res. 26). That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby directed to cause a complete set of all the weights and measures adopted as standards to be delivered to the governor of each State in the Union, for the use of agricultural colleges in the States, respectively, which have received a grant of lands from the United States, and also one set of the same for the .use of the Smithsonian Institutions : provided, that the cost of each set shall not exceed two hundred dollars, and a sum sufficient to carry out the pro- visions of this resolution is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Engineers in Navy in ay be de- tailed as pro- fessors in colleges, &c. Not exceeding twenty-five. May be with- drawn from detail. Secretary of Treasury autho- rized to deliver standard weights and measures for agricultural colleges. Proviso. MASSACHUSETTS. ACT ACCEPTING LAND GRANT. (1863. Chap. 16G). An Act to Provide for the Reception of a Grant of Congress, and to Create a Fund for the Promotion of Education in Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts. Commonwealth accepts grant of U. S. Governor to give notice thereof. To receive land scrip when issued. To appoint com- missioner to lo- cate scrip. Moneys receiv- ed for scrip to be paid treasur- er, and invested in fund for appropriations. Be it enacted, etc., as follows : SEC. i. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts hereby ac- cepts a grant offered to it by the United States, as set forth and defined in an act of congress entitled "An act donating public lands to the several states and territories which may provide col- leges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts," said act being chapter one hundred and thirty of the Statutes of the United States passed at the second session of the thirty-seventh congress, and approved by the President, July second, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-two, upon the terms and conditions contained and set forth in said act of congress ; and the governor of the Commonwealth is hereby authorized and instructed to give due notice thereof to the government of the United States. SEC. 2. The governor is hereby authorized and instructed to receive, by himself or his order, from the Secretary of the Interior, or any other person authorized to issue the same, all the land scrip to which this Commonwealth may be entitled by the pro- visions of the before-mentioned act of congress. SEC. 3. The governor, with the advice and consent of the council, is hereby authorized and instructed to appoint a commis- sioner, whose duty it shall be to locate, without unnecessary delay, all the land scrip which may come into the possession of the Commonwealth by virtue of this act, and to sell the same from time to time, on such terms as the governor and council may determine. * * * SEC. 4. All moneys received by virtue of this act, for the sale of land script, shall be immediately deposited with the treas- urer of the Commonwealth, who shall invest and hold the same in accordance with the fourth section of the afore-mentioned act of congress. The moneys so invested shall constitute a perpetual fund, to be entitled the " Fund for the promotion of education in agriculture and the mechanic arts," which shall be appropriated and used in such manner as the legislature shall prescribe and in accordance with the said act of congress. Approved April 18, 1863. ACT OF INCORPORATION. (1863. Chap. 220). An Act to Incorporate the Trustees of the Massachusetts Agri- cultural College. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives^ in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows : SECTION i. Marshall P. Wilder, of Dorchester; Charles Corporators. G. Davis, of Plymouth ; Nathan Durfee, of Fall River ; John Brooks, of Princeton; Henry Colt, of Pittsfield; William S. Southworth, of Lowell ; Charles C. Sewall, of Medfleld ; Paoli Lathrop, of South Hadley ; Phinehas Stedman, of Chicopee ; Allen W. Dodge, of Hamilton ; George Marston, of Barnstable ; William B. Washburn, of Greenfield ; Henry L. Whiting, of Tis- bury, John B. King, of Nantucket, their associates and successors, are hereby constituted a body corporate by the name of 1 [the Trustees of] the Massachusetts Agricultural College, the leading Purpose . object of which shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions of life ; to be located as hereinafter provided ; and they and their succes- sors, and such as shall be duly elected members of said corpora- tion, shall be and remain a body corporate by that name forever. And for the orderly conducting of the business of said corporation, . , 1111 i i r Election of the said trustees shall have power and authority from time to time, officers. as occasion may require, to elect a president, vice-president, secretary and treasurer, and such other officers of said corporation as may be found necessary, and to declare the duties and tenures of their respective offices ; 2 [and also to remove any trustee from the same corporation, when, in their judgment, he shall be rendered incapable, by age, or otherwise, of discharging the Tr^tees 1 . duties of his office, or shall neglect or refuse to perform the same ; and, whenever vacancies shall occur in the board of trustees, the board. * legislature shall fill the same] : provided, nevertheless, that the num- Proviso ber of members shall never be greater than fourteen, exclusive of the governor of the Commonwealth, the secretary of the board of education, the secretary of the board of agriculture, and the president of the faculty, each of whom shall be, ex officio, a mem- ber of said corporation. [1. Amended by Chap. 223, Sec. 1, Acts of 1864. The corporate name of " The Trustees of the Massachusetts Agri- Change of Cor- cultural College" shall hereafter be "The Massachusetts Agricultural porate name. College." [2. Amended by Chap. 5O, Resolves of 1884. * * * the power of* appointment of members of said board of trustees, and the powers of removal defined in section one of chapter two hundred and twenty, of the acts of eighteen hundred and sixty- three, shall be hereafter exercised by the governor with the advice and consent of the council, instead of said board ; and said board during the current year shall, by lot, divide the elected members thereof into seven classes of two members each, of whom one class shall vacate their office January first, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and one class on the first day of January in each year thereafter; and such action shall be certified by the board to the governor and council ; and appointments to fill the vacancies so created shall be made for the term of seven years. SEC. 2. The said corporation shall have full power and authority to determine at what times and places their meetings shall be holden, and the manner of notifying the trustees to convene at such meetings ; and also, from time to time, to elect a president of said college, and such professors, tutors, instructors and other officers of said college as they shall judge most for the interest thereof, and to determine the duties, salaries, emoluments, respon- sibilities and tenures of their several offices. And the said corporation are further empowered to purchase or erect, and keep in repair, such houses and other buildings as they shall judge necessary for the said college ; and also, to make and ordain as occasion may require, reasonable rules, orders and by-laws not repungent to the constitution and laws of this Com- monwealth, with reasonable penalties, for the good government of the said college and for the regulation of their own body, and also to determine and regulate the course of instruction in said college, and to confer such appropriate degrees as they may determine and prescribe : provided, nevertheless, that no corporate business shall be transacted at any meeting unless one-half, at least, of the trus- tees are present. SEC. 3. The said corporation may have a common seal, which they may alter or renew at their pleasure, and all deeds sealed with the seal of said corporation, and signed by their order, shall, when made in their corporate name, be considered in law as the deeds of said corporation ; and said corporation may sue and be sued in all actions, real, personal or mixed, and may prosecute the same to final judgment and execution, by the name of the Trustees of the Massachusetts Agricultural College ; and said cor- poration shall be capable of taking and holding in fee simple, or any less estate, by gift, grant, bequest, devise, or otherwise, any lands, tenements, or other estate, real or personal : provided, that the clear annual income of the same shall net exceed thirty thousand dollars. Rents and prof- SEC. 4- The clear rents and profits of all the estate, real and its of estate ; personal, of which the said corporation shall be seized and pos- how appro. j i n i_ i r i n ' i priated. sessed, shall be appropriated to the uses of said college in such Trustees appointed and removed by the governor and council. Elected mem- bers to be divi- ded into seven classes, by lot. Appointments to fill vacancies to be for term of seven years. Meetings. Officers of college. Real estate. By-laws. Instruction. Proviso. Seal. Corporation may sue and be sued. May hold estate given or be- queathed. Proviso. manner as shall most effectually promote the objects declared in the first section of this act, and as may be recommended from time to time by the said corporation, they conforming to the will of any donor or donors, in the application of any estate which may be given, devised or bequeathed, for any particular object connected with the college. SEC. 5. The legislature of this Commonwealth may grant any further powers to. or alter, limit, annul or restrain, any of the powers , , . i i j i 11 i i i vested by this act in the said corporation, as shall be found neces- sary to promote the best interests of the said college ; and more especially may appoint and establish overseers or visitors of the said college, with all necessary powers for the better aid, preserva- tion and government thereof. 1 [The said corporation shall make an annual report of its condition, financial and otherwise, to the legislature at the commencement of its session.] 1. Amended by Chap. 378, Acts of 1871. "The college shall furnish to the governor and council a copy of the annual report of its operations." may enlarge or restrain powers of corporation Annua i reDort . Location of colie & e - SEC. 6. The board of trustees shall determine the location of said college in some suitable place within the limits of this Commonwealth, and shall purchase, or obtain, by gift, grant, or otherwise, in connection therewith, a tract of land containing at least one hundred acres, to be used as an experimental farm, or otherwise, so as best to promote the objects of the institution ; labor thereon. and in establishing the by-laws and regulations of said college, they shall make such provision for the manual labor of the students on said farm as they may deem just and reasonable. The location, plan of organization, government and course of study prescribed for the college shall be subject to the approval of the l [legislature.] [1. Amended by Chap, 223, Sec. 2, Acts of 1864. governor and council. ro- eof SEC. 7. One-tenth part of all the moneys which may be one-tenthp received by the state treasurer from the sale of land-scrip, by ceedsofsai< r j_i f 1 i j i j .LI i i certain land virtue of the provisions of the one hundred and thirtieth chapter scrip to apply of the acts of the thirty-seventh congress, at the second session f r p ^ rchase of thereof, approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the laws of this Commonwealth, shall be paid to said col- lege, and appropriated towards the purchase of said site or farm ; provided, nevertheless, that the said college shall first secure by Proviso, valid subscriptions or otherwise, the further sum of seventy-five thousand dollars, for the purpose of erecting suitable buildings thereon ; and upon satisfactory evidence that this proviso has been complied with, the governor is authorized, from time to time, to draw his warrants therefor. 10 Future support of college provided for. Property in case of dissolution, how to revert. SEC. 8. When the said college shall have been duly organ- ized, located and established, as and for the purposes specified in this act, there shall be appropriated and paid to its treasurer each year, on the warrant of the governor, two-thirds of the annual interest or income, which may be received from the fund created under and by virtue of the act of congress named in the seventh section of this act, and the laws of this Commonwealth, accepting the provisions thereof, and relating to the same. SEC. 9. In the event of a dissolution of said corporation, by its voluntary act at any time, the real and personal property be- longing to the corporation shall revert and belong to the Common- wealth, to be held by the same, and be disposed of as it may see fit in the advancement of education in agriculture and the me- chanic arts. The legislature shall have authority at any time to withhold the portion of the interest or income from said fund pro- vided in this act, whenever the corporation shall cease or fail to maintain a college within the provisions and spirit of this act and the before-mentioned act of congress, or for any cause which they deem sufficient. Approved April 29, i86j. (1866. Chap. 263). The Board of Agriculture Overseers of the College. SECTION i. The board of agriculture shall constitute a Doard of overseers of the Massachusetts agricultural college, with powers and duties to be defined and fixed by the governor and council. But said board of overseers shall have no powers granted to control the action of the trustees of said college, or to nega- tive their powers and duties, as defined by chapter two hundred and twenty of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and sixty- three. SEC. 2. The board of agriculture is hereby authorized to locate the state agricultural cabinet and library, and to hold its meetings in said college. SEC. 3. The president of the agricultural college is hereby constituted a member, ex officio, of the board of agriculture. Approved May 26, 1866. (1868. Resolves, Chap. 8) Resolve in relation to the issue of Arms to the Massachusetts Agri- cultural College. Resolved, That his excellency the governor be authorized to issue to the president and trustees of the Massachusetts agricul- tural college such arms and equipments, for the use of that institu- tion, as in his judgment maybe so distributed without detriment to the militia service : provided, the said president and trustees shall be held personally responsible for the same. Approved March //, 1868. 11 Expenses of the College, Personal Liability of Trustees, (1879. Chap. 258.) SECTION 2. The expenses of the institution shall be kept Expenses to be within the income to which it is legally entitled, and the board of trustees shall be personally liable for any debt contracted for any purpose in excess of the assured income of the college, or for the payment of which money has not been previously pro- vided. EXPEKIMENT STATION AND THE COLLEGE, (1882. Chap. 212). SECTION i. An agricultural experiment station shall be established and maintained at the Massachusetts agricultural college in the town of Amherst. SEC. 2. The management of said station shall be vested in a board of control of seven persons, of which board the gov- ernor shall be president, ex officio, and of which two members shall be elected from the state board of agriculture, by said board of agriculture ; two from the trustees of the Massachusetts agricultural college, by said trustees ; one from the Massachusetts society for promoting agriculture, by said society; and the remaining member shall be the president of the Massachusetts agricultural college. The said board shall choose a secretary and treasurer. SEC. 4. The said board of control shall at its first meeting arrange for the retiring of two members each year, and the suc- cessors of such retiring members shall be elected by the bodies respectively which such retiring members represent : provided, that in the years in which, under such arrangement, the president of the Massachusetts agricultural college would be retired, the said president shall remain and one member only shall be retired. EIGHTY PEEE SCHOLAESHIPS, (Resolves of 1886. Chap. 34). Resolved, That there shall be paid annually, from the $10,000 paid treasury of the Commonwealth to the treasurer of the Massa- ann uaiiy. chusetts agricultural college, at Amherst, the sum of ten thou- sand dollars, to enable the trustees of said college to provide for the students of said institution the theoretical and practical education required by its charter and the law of the United States relating thereto. Resolved, That annually the scholarships established bv Provisions * r r i -r> i n i 111 Chap. 46, Acts chapter forty-six of the Resolves of the year eighteen hundred isss. (See next eighty-three be given and continued in accordance with the provisions of said chapter. Approved April 16, 1886. Experiment station estab- lished. Management vested in board of control. Remaining member presi- dent of the college. Two members of board to retire each year. President of college to 12 Persons in this Commonwealth Examinations. Assignment to Senatorial dis- tricts. Maybe dis- tributed by the President. Conditions of Awarding Free Scholarships. (Resolves of 1883. Chap. 46). The eighty free scholarships ********* *********** tobe given by appoint- ment to persons in this Commonwealth, after a competitive examination, under rules prescribed by the president of the college, at such time and place as the senator then in office, from each district, shall designate ; and the said scholarships shall be assigned equally to each senatorial district ; but if there shall be less than two successful applicants for scholarships from any senatorial district, such scholarships may be distributed by the president of the college equally among the other districts, as nearly as possible ; but no applicant shall be entitled to a scholarship unless he shall pass an examination in accordance with the rules to be established as hereinbefore provided. Approved Jan. 2, 1883. BY-LAWS OF THE Massachusetts Agricultural College Corporation. ADOPTED FEBRUARY 5, 1886, OFFICERS. ARTICLE I. The Officers of this Corporation shall be a President, Vice- President, Secretary, Treasurer, Auditor of Accounts, and three Standing Com- mittees, consisting of five members each, to wit : (i) a Committee on Finance and Buildings; (2) a Committee on Course of Study and Faculty; and (3), a Committee on Farm and Horticultural Departments, all of whom shall be elected annually by ballot. Special Committees may be chosen from time to time as the Trustees at any meeting may think expedient. DUTIES OF OFFICERS. ARTICLE II. The Officers of this Corporation are charged with the duties, and entitled to the rights and privileges which belong, by general consent and parlia- mentary custom, to their respective offices. The Treasurer, in addition to being the custodian of all the funds