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| The course extended up Main street eighty
rods from the Putnam House, in front o
which stood the judges stand and the win
ming post.
The prizes were 800 to the first, $50 Il
the second, and SIS to the third. Following
is the summary Eagle, Greenfield, Mass.
Lei; Mechanic, North Adams, Mass, ;i0i
Noble, Cambridge, \. Y, l::i2; Baxter, Rut
land, VT, l:37.
The Dedication Of Bakersfield Academy.
Wednesday, August 18th, was memoir
able day for Bakersfield The fine new
academy erected there, at an expense o
80, 526, OF, contributed by Mrs Sarah b
Jacobs. Mrs 5. Jane T. Kendall and Mrs
RoXaa b. lIankinson, of Boston, and en-
dowcd with $40, 900 which was hcqueathcd
by the late Peter b. Brigham, of Boston, wa,
then dedicated. Nearly thousand people
were present from the various towns in
Franklin county. The exercises were pre-
sided over by }. 5. Spaulding, L. d., the
veteran principal of Barre Academy, who,
nearly forty years ago, was principal for
eleven years of the now dislIscd south
academy in Bakersfield Prayer was offered
by Rev. Edwin Whcclnck, of Cambridge
The principal addresses were by Rev. G.. F.
Wright or Anlovcr, Mass, formerly of
Bakersfield and 10y President Buckham, of
the University of Vermont.
MI. WEIGHTS Adde'S.
Ei.,I,t..
up the Connecticut and crosses the Green
Mountains The driver was riah Brigham,
who brought his wife, Elizabeth Fay. and
four children. As others were born to this
pioneer family the first thought of the pa
rents was the education of their minds
Owing to the meager school facilities then
afforded in Bakersfield. they obtained Il
small wcl-selected family library, and stud
led with assiduity and profit No task was
50 pressing as 10 call the children from their
books But scarcely had the farm been
cleared when the father died. Peter the
dOner of this fund, was then eleven wears
old, having been born - years ago Having
shared this home training and the wholesome
discipline of adversely, he went TO the
metropolis of New England, and in after
life acquired n fortune He did not forget
that he was indebted to the literary atmos-
phere of his childhood home. and has now
made it broader and better and more per
petual for the youth who succeeded him
here. In regard to the educational facilities
offered 10 the young men Of our country,
Mr. Wright remarked that in New England
alone there are Is colleges, with $50 in
StructOrs. libraries aggrcgatiHg GOO, 900 vol
umes. buildings and apparatus costing
SlS, OOO,0 900, and with scholarship funds of
about S5,OO0,000. Abiding To the former
pupils Of Bakersfield academies the speaker
made personal mention of Chief Justice
Shattuck of Oregon, Hon. H. \. Burt of
Swanton, Hon. Geo. Tiff, NJ C., Lawson
y. Fuller, ESD, Of New \ ork city. Pres-
dent Hubert of Middlebury College, Dr.
o. f. Fasset of ST. Adams. d. c. Whitman,
railroad builder in the west, Rev. DIR. G.. l..
Goodcll of st. Louis, Rev Geo. H. Scott Of
Plymouth, y. H., the late Fernando C.
Willett, who died while secretary of legation
at Mexico and several others. He said DR.
Spauldlng could refer by the hour to others
who had made their mark More than ever
before is the knowledge of II people Ia he
their power The age of mind has come in
and relcgated to the past the age of muscle
In Boston, Peter Il. Brigham will long bc
gratefully remembered for cndowins with
million dollars hospital for the poor. But
he was too far sighted Ia put all his hencvo-
lent ventures into one locality. 1t renlainsfor
Bakersfield to show if forty thousand dollars
devoted TO education here at the fountain
head of supply, will not do more to prevent
human misery than a million can do to
assuaec.
This address WAS warmly applaudrd. Hon.
Joseph llealey of Boston, one Of the cxecuI-
tors of Mr. Brighams will, was then intro
,luccd, and spoke briefly hut cloquenlly.
PRESIDENT BuCEHAM's ADDRESS.
He emphasized the point that higher cdu-
cation is no longer To he considered rs Il lux
ury but AS Il necessity in most of the prac-
teal affairs of life. Some of the cmploymcniS
are suffering for the want of more of it, and
those who enter them without it soon find
unable to cope with better
drilled minds He inst anced the case OF
a recent graduate Of the medical de
parment Of the L. Y. NJ, who went Ia
to practice and, though doing
fairly. and being Il married man nearly
thirty wears of agc. had entered Amherst /.
college 10 get classical education, the need !
If which he had come 10 feel Another point /
made was. that communities need highly /
riucated men 10 battle against the hcr,sicS /
hat are constantly arising. In the good |
loys' own book simple honesty always gets /
he better Of trained trickrry; hut this exists
,nly in stories. As mnttcr uf fact, culture
5 AN absolute necessity in the defence Of
ruth. Another point, upon which
he speaker dwclt at length WAS that
ime IL not wasted which is devoted 10
he study Of the higher branches and good
lcal of cunning is displayed by certain dis
,utanis in speaking of dead" languages IL
DlI would make beef obnoxious by calling il
lead meal, or silk lay calm" il the product
+ dead WORMS, ~ the odorous Russia leather
" calling il the skin Of u dead cali But it is
ut true thai Latin or Greek are dead. There
; less difference between the Greek of Ptri-
les and the language now spoken ON some of
hc urrrk islands, than there was between
he dialects Of ths same race in that ancient
ay There il less ditercnrf between the
attn of Cicero and the Italian uud Spanish
f to-day, than there's between Anglo Saxon
nd modern English \ great deal of unin-
.ntional error is committed in speaking
rainst classical ctluriition, for it embraces
lso the pure sciences and tho mi>.a sciences.
cavinr ont of the account the
armed ounces. is it not trup that
Zen who have had tins varied train
~ amount To more and get ON better
trough tho world than these who have mi ?
ducation morality and religion need pro
elton, whether trade does ~ HIl. lsnur
nee cannot I've left Ia guide the drstinics of
f. And the cost Of education is very great.
q put Il cadet through the military academy
West Point costs the Government twenty
W ar thirty thousand dollars. 1t follows,
lerei0rr, that If rjucHtiun were Ia he left
il would be- for the Tirh alone. I