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The Annual Reports of the trustees of Massachusetts Agricultural
College to the legislature were compilations of accounts by the President,
the Dean of the College, academic and administrative departments, and other
branches of the college covering pertinent activities for the fiscal
year. Beginning in 1868, the reports also contained the college catalog,
which included the names of the trustees, faculty, and students, in addition
to the courses of study. In 1909 the catalogs became a separate publication,
but were still denoted as Part II of the Annual Reports. The online
texts (1864 - 1932/33) were often edited to reflect the administrative,
academic, departmental, and women's histories of the college. What
has been omitted consists generally, but not exclusively, of the following:
reports of the Hatch Experiment Station, financial or treasurer's statements,
reports by the farm superintendent, extention service, and other agricultural
units; other scientific, meteorological, horticultural, or
agricultural reports, some of which were also contained within the addenda
to various earlier reports titled "Appendix" or "Reports."
[Note: Reports that have been edited
contain guides to the pagination where it otherwise varies from the original
index or table of contents.]
