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Michigan State Agricultural College BY PRESIDENT ABBOT
Sources of Error in Investigation of Truth—Oration. Charles E. Hollister.
Whisky—Essay, Allen Benton Morse.
The Anglo Saxon Race—Oration, W. Wallace Preston.
Iron—Essay, Albert N. Prentiss.
Patriotism—Oration, Seneca Is. Taylor.
Of these speakers, Messrs. Dickey, Hollister, and Prentiss afterward graduated. Mr. Dickey was killed in battle. (See report for 1881-2, page 29). Mr. Morse gave an arm in the service, and in 1875 was State senator from Ionia, where he still resides, a lawyer. Mr. Charles J. Monroe was in the State senate from South Haven in 1883. Both as senators were of great service to the college. Mr. Wm. M. Greene entered the army in August, 1862, and was killed, as second lieutenant, January 29, 1863, near Cumberland River. He was one of the most excellent of students and of young men. Seneca Taylor is now a successful lawyer of St. Louis, Mo. Mr. Hollister is a farmer in Laingsburg, this State. Mr. Prentiss is professor of botany in Cornell University.
During the second year of the college Mr. W. D. Cochrane was instructor in book-keeping from June 17 until his death at his home in Detroit, September 29. Mr. Cochrane was from Cora Linn, near Scotland, and was much beloved.
The students, indeed, had an easier time than those who administered the affairs of the college.
The $56, 320 appropriated from sales of salt spring lands, given in 1855, and the $40, 000 appropriated in 1857, were entirely spent before the opening of this college year (1858). A monthly allowance of $500 was borrowed, and by the close of the year the college was $13, 000 in
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