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��THE GRANITE MONTHLY.

��full board of earnest and faithful teach- ers, at once became very large. ( I ered not only from all the New Eng- land states, but from a much wider cir- cle of all the states, and, also, from the Canadas, the number of students sometimes exceeded three hundred, and averaged, during the thirty-six years of the wi iter's principalship, at least two hundred. Such a patron- age, too, certainly can not be found out of New England, nor in the vicin- ity of large cities — gathered largely from the middle and industrial classes, from Christian homes of the Puritan stock, bred to habits of industry and economy, and not afraid of hard work. This was the natural result of the pri- mal object of the institution — to assist and encourage Christian young men, in indigent circumstances, and of promising talents, for the ministry. This provision probably drew more young men of said character to the institution than to any other in the country. The value of a band of earnest Christian young men in a large school, as a conservative and efficient power, can not easily be estimated. This will account, in part, at least, for the high moral and religious tone of the school, and for the many powerful and most precious revivals of religion during almost its entire history.''

From the foregoing notice of this seminary, we see how the design of its founder and early friends has been carried out — in the increase of Chris- tain ministers, fifty of whom were start- ed on their course of preparation in

��four years. We may see the wide in- fluence of a fund of less than S4o,ooo, so invested, in the last sixty years.

We see, also, what the Christian community can do when they unite and engage for the increase of the Christian ministry. We further see that young men, even in mature life, by giving themselves to this work, may prepare themselves for extensive use- fulness, and add vastly to their own happiness. Devoted, self-sacrificing men in the ministry are likely to be ever needed, and an institution to aid indigent young men in preparing for such a work, should be sustained.

In the notice given in this article of the early history of this school, and the sketch of its history in after years, the writer has been materially aided, es- pecially as to dates, by its general catalogue, prepared by Rev. Sam- uel L. Gerould, of Goffstown, N. H., with great care and labor, and which every one who has ever attended that academy will desire. The following summary, given in that work, for the year 1880, we are permitted to copy :

The whole number of graduates. 1282 j females, 353. Non-graduates, 511; females, 453; total, 2,599. Of this number 1 246 graduated at colleges and professional schools. Occupa- tions : clergymen, 333 ; teachers, 431 ; college presidents, 4 ; foreign mission- aries, 26 ; farmers, 112; professors, 34; physicians, 21 1 ; general business, 328 ; members of congress, 4 ; law- yers, 313 ; editors, 36 ; judges of high- er courts, 3.

��SENATE.

��Afternoon of first day of session after tion

��meeting the House in conven-

��Upon returning to the Senate cham- ber, on motion of Senator Robinson, the following resolution was adopted :

Resolved, That the Senate has heard with deep regret of the death of the late State Senator elect, Daniel S. Dinsmoor, of Laconia, an able and

��upright gentleman, a faithful and re- spected citizen, a generous and just man, who would have been a powerful and popular member of this body. That as a mark of respect to him, this resolution be entered upon the Journal of the Senate — that the Clerk be in- structed to send a copy of the same to the family of the deceased, and that as a further mark of respect to his mem- ory we do now adjourn.

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