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416 EVERETT, COLN, &c. History University of Illinois Honorable HENRY W. CUSHMAN, and JOHN W. LIN- Do these gentlemen know anything about scholarship, education, practical life and social want, or are they also mere visionary enthusiasts, seeking to turn the world upside down ? find the following in the proceedings of the Legislature of Massachusetts. The proposition of Mr. Pomeroy was received with marked satisfaction, and was read and ordered to be printed. Mr. Pomeroy, of Southampton, on leave given, introduced the following: MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURE.—We RESOLVES CONCERNING AGRICULTURE. Whereas, In view of the increased attention devoted to theoretical and practical agriculture, Massachusetts earnestly desires that there be increased facilities afforded for acquiring a more complete and liberal agricultural education, and Whereas, This and every other State in the Union is largely interested in efforts to develop our agricultural resources to an extent worthy of a nation of farmers, therefore Besolved, That Massachusetts deems it expedient and just that Congress appropriate a portion of our public lands to establish and endow a National Normal Agricultural College, which shall be to the rural sciences, what the West Point Academy is to the military, for the purpose of educating teachers and professors for service in all the States of the Republic, Besolved, That copies of these resolutions be sent by his Excellency, the Governor, to our Senators and Representatives at Washington, with the request that the subject be brought before the two houses of Congress. A convention on the subject of a practical national system of university education, was held at Albany, also, Jan. 26, 1853. This convention was numerously attended by the great and illustrious luminaries of the State, the church and colleges of the North and East. A committee of twenty-one was appointed to report a plan. Among these appear the names of the venerable President Wayland, of Brown University, Bishop Potter, of Pennsylvania, Washington Irving, Gov. Hunt and Senator Dix of New York, President Hitchcock, of Amherst College, Professors Webstef, Dewey, Henry, Bache, Mitchell, of Cincinnati, Pierce, of Cambridge, &c.
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