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 State. The Black Board and the Monitorial Desk were first introduced into the schools of Boston by me. The late distinguished Joseph Lancaster was the first to use them." Now that the blackboard has fallen into disfavor and the Lancasterian monitorial system has been long since abandoned by educators, no one is likely to dispute the claim. He also interested himself in the subject of industrial education. "I attempted the founding of an institution, to be called, 'Massachusetts Mechanical and Agricultural College.' The subject was two years before the legislature. The Committee on Education said to me, that if I would raise a fund of $10,000, the State would give $10,000 more. A munificent individual of Charlestown proposed to subscribe $2,000; myself would give a portion of my estate in the town." The project was abandoned; but Kelley expressed satisfaction that "his zealous efforts excited in others of abler talents, correspondent intentions and labors, which resulted, in some small benefit, to our literary institutions." However active he may have been in promoting this movement, he was not its originator; nor does his name appear in any of the published documents relating to the matter.[14]

Kellcy's interest in the welfare of youth also prompted him to take an active part in the organization of the Boston Young Men's Education Society, of which he was the first secretary, and in the founding of the Penitent Females' Refuge, which was organized in 1821 and incorporated in 1823. His strong