Excerpt from The Introductory Discourses and the Lectures: Delivered Before the American Institute of Instruction, in Boston, August, 1834; Including the Journal of Proceedings, and a List of the Officers The Institute came to order at ten O'clock, A. M. Mr james G. Carter of Lancaster in the chair. The record of doings of the last annual meeting were read in part; the reading of the remainder was dispensed with. Voted, That Messrs A. Andrews of Charlestown, Pike, and Robinson of Boston, be a Committee to fix the hour of meeting of the Institute on the several days of the session, and also the hour at which the several lectures shall be given. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.