In 1869 I made before the Massachusetts Legislature, on a petition which was successful for a legislative grant to that school, what I believe is the first public address ever made in behalf of Technical Education in this country.
Hoar claims to have made the first public address advocating for Technical Education in the U.S. before the Massachusetts Legislature.
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His life, so far as he took part in political affairs, was devoted to objects wholly public, never personal.
It would have been a worse civil war than that of the Rebellion, because the country would have been divided not by sections, but by parties.
It will be better for his reputation that the chapter of that history which relates to him shall be written by a historian with a full and clear sense of those faults and infirmities, concealing nothing, and extenuating nothing.
Never rode to the wrong's redressing A worthier paladin.
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