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Richards, a graduate of the first class of the Institute of Technology, related interesting events connected with the early beginnings of the institute.

At the close of these exercises an announcement was made that the corporation of the institute, out of funds in its control, had founded a scholarship of $300 yearly to be filled by a graduate or student of William and Mary College to be designated by the faculty of that institution. The exercises throughout were such as to impress upon the student body the nobility and loftiness of Mr. Rogers's character and life and to give a new estimate to those who knew him of the permanence and warmth of the memory in which he is yet held.

Henry S. Pritchett.