He had fifty volumes of these reports, showing the results of examinations, and the standing of each pupil. These reports are often referred to by parents and pupils, and are found to be very interesting and valuable. Some of the results of the Floating School, in which poor boys are educated in nautical affairs as well as in common branches, were also stated by Dr. McJilton. A recess of five minutes was then had, after which an address was given by M. T. BROWN, Esq., Superintendent of Schools in Toledo, Ohio. Dr. McJilton thought the address ought to be widely circulated. Though he might not endorse it all, he hoped it would be published. After some suggestions by others, MR. CLARKE, of New York, moved that the address be published in a separate document, the number to be fixed by the Board of Directors, for gratuitous distribution. The motion was unani mously adopted. Adjourned to a quarter after three o'clock, P. M. THURSDAY AFTERNOON. At the opening of the exercises this afternoon, His Excellency Gov. BANKS, His Honor Lieut. Gov. TRASK, and several members of the Executive Council, took their seats upon the platform, and were greeted with applause. REV. A. H. QUINT, of Jamaica Plain, a member of the Massachusetts Board of Education, was introduced as the Lecturer, who gave an exceedingly interesting address on "The Province of Legislation in regard to Education." After a recess of five minutes, the Institute proceeded to the choice of officers for the ensuing year, with the following result. PRESIDENT. D. B. Hagar, Jamaica Plain. VICE-PRESIDENTS. Samuel Pettes, Roxbury. Barnas Sears, Providence, R. I. William D. Swan, Boston. Charles Northend, New Britain, Conn. Samuel S. Greene, Providence, R. I. Ariel Parish, Springfield. Leander Wetherell, Boston. George B. Emerson, Boston. Daniel Leach, Providence, R. I. Amos Perry, Providence, R. I. Zalmon Richards, Washington, D. C. John W. Bulkley, Brooklyn, N. Y. Jacob Batchelder, Salem. Elbridge Smith, Norwich, Conn. George S. Boutwell, Groton. John Kingsbury, Providence, R. I. George Allen, Jr., Boston. Charles Hammond, Groton. D. N. Camp, New Britain, Conn. J. D. Philbrick, Boston. Joshua Bates, Boston. Anson Smyth, Columbus, Ohio. Alpheus Crosby, Salem. Ebenezer Hervey, New Bedford. John G. Elliot, N. C. R. S. Fielden, S. C. J. Escabar, Mexico. E. P. Weston, Gorham, Me. E. F. Strong, Bridgeport, Conn. RECORDING SECRETARY. William E. Sheldon, West Newton. CORRESPONDING SECRETARIES. B. W. Putnam, Boston. John Kneeland, Roxbury. TREASURER. William D. Ticknor, Boston. CURATORS. Nathan Metcalf, Boston. Samuel Swan, Boston. J. E. Horr, Brookline. CENSORS. William T. Adams, Boston. James A. Page, Boston. C. Goodwin Clark, Boston. COUNSELLORS. Daniel Mansfield, Cambridge. A. A. Gamwell, Providence, R. I. J. W. Allen, Norwich, Conn. The above vote having been announced, MR. HAGAR said, Gentlemen of the Institute, - I thank you most sincerely for this renewed expression of your generous confidence. Fully appreciating, as I do, the honor which you have been pleased to confer upon me, I shall continue to labor, to the extent of my humble abilities, for the prosperity of the Institute. (Applause.) REV. MR. BROOKS, of Medford, offered the following Resolutions in honor of the memory of REV. CYRUS PIERCE, accompanying them with appropriate remarks: "Resolved, That as members of the American Institute of Instruction, we remember with gratitude the solid and lasting services rendered to education by our late associate, Rev. Cyrus Pierce; the first Teacher of the first Normal School, established by law, on this Western Continent. We bear our cheerful testimony, not only to his early and full appreciation of the phrase, As is the Teacher, so is the School, but also to that sober good sense, that transparent sincerity, and that indomitable perseverence, by which the Normal School has become a fixed institution of our country. 66 Resolved, That while we are grateful for his public labors and his eminent success, we mourn that we shall see his face no more; yet, we would be comforted in recalling his paternal gentleness and manly courage, his worldly wisdom, and his apostolic faith; and would conclude with hoping, that the maxim of his heart, — LIVE TO THE TRUTH, may become the sacred motto of every school. 66 Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent, by our Secretary, to his respected widow." Gov. BANKS arose to second the motion. On stepping forward, he was received with warm applause. He spoke, in substance, as follows: I anticipated, in attending the session of the Institute this afternoon, the pleasure of listening to others, and did not anticipate that, under any circumstances, I should be called upon to address the Chair or the assembly. I should do injustice to my own immediate neighborhood, if I did not rise to second the resolutions, in honor of the memory of Father Pierce. I think the earliest of his school experience, occurred in the neighborhood of my own town; and certainly he has left the impression of his mind and heart there, as he did wherever he lived. It is but a few days since I saw, in one of the schools, where he had been, though not where he had taught, represented on the walls, as the representative idea which my worthy friend has adopted in the resolution, "Live to the Truth." Those words were the spirit as well as thought of Father Pierce. He deserves to have his memory cherished by this Institute, representing, as it does, not only the educational interests of the States, but of the Continent; for I see that the officers on your list, |