. The history of the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. nsthe most valuable collection of Americana to be found in the United John Hay Library of Brown University has 235,000 books at theservice of professors, students and alumni, well housed. This Board hasbecome the foster-parent of many of the State educational institutionsand has rendered great services in a general superintendence of theirwork and finances. The Board has been a valuable director in matterscommitted to its control and a careful advisor in aflfairs prudential andfinancial. It has also given stabili
. The history of the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. nsthe most valuable collection of Americana to be found in the United John Hay Library of Brown University has 235,000 books at theservice of professors, students and alumni, well housed. This Board hasbecome the foster-parent of many of the State educational institutionsand has rendered great services in a general superintendence of theirwork and finances. The Board has been a valuable director in matterscommitted to its control and a careful advisor in aflfairs prudential andfinancial. It has also given stability to the official heads of the schooldepartment of the State, so that in a period of fifty years, only two Com-missioners have completed their terms of office—the first. Mr. Bicknell,resigning January i, 1875, for another field of educational work, and theother—Mr. Stockwell, who died in office in 1906. In the period betweenJanuary i, 1844, and January i, 1870, eight changes had been made inthe Commissioners office: Barnard, 1844-1849; Potter, 1849-1854; Allyn,. JOHN HAY LIBRARY, BROWN UNIVERSITY
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