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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1871
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. 822 Prof. Prentiss—I would nominate Prof. Caldwell. H e would probably be able to serve the committee much better than I would be able to do. On motion, the Assembly adjourned to 7:30 this evening. EVENING SESSION. Met, pursuant to adjournment, at 7:30 P . M. REPORT. Mr. Flagg suggested that some action should be taken to remunerate the publishers of " T H E PRAIRIE FARMER," who have secured a short-hand report of the proceedings of the Convention, at a considerable expense, either by ordering a large number of the papers containing the report, or by having the report printed in pamphlet form. After discussion, on motion of Mr. Flagg, the matter was referred to a committee, consisting of the officers of the Society, with, power to act. Mr. Flagg was requested by the Convention to attend to the revision of the copy before publishing. The order of business for the evening was then taken up, being E X P E R I M E N T S AT THE P E N N S Y L V A N I A AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. Mr. Hamilton—The Agricultural College of Pennsylvania, Mr. Chairman, was opened for students in 1859—among the first of the colleges of the country to throw open its doors for the admission of young men whose object in coming there was to get a better knowledge of the principles of agriculture. The gentlemen who conceived this idea had for a long time before been thinking of the matter, but it had not taken proper shape until about 1856, when the question was agitated as to the probability of the States being able to get land to endow colleges such as these. It was seven years after this time that these States did get the land, the first bill being defeated by Congress, as you know. The college began right in the woods. I t was not, as the gentleman stated here the other day, in a state of nature; it was a sort of unnatural state. The ground upon which the college was built, and its farm, was full of roots—of what we call grubs- in our country—of land that has been cut off repeatedly for timber and for ore furnaces ; so that they had to go to work right in
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