But the application was denied.
Banks relied in his somewhat sonorous fashion: "You need not trouble yourself, Sir.

The Commonwealth will give a hundred thousand dollars." And she did.

This was followed by the grant, under Banks's influence, for the endowment of the Boston Institute of Technology, large grants to the colleges and grants to some of the endowed schools.
General Banks's statue should stand by the State House as one of the foremost benefactors of the great educational institutions of the Commonwealth, and as an example of what a generous ambition can accomplish for the humblest child in the Republic.
Governor Boutwell, who is still living, became a member of President Grant's Cabinet in March, 1869, and remained in the House only a day or two of the spring session which lasted about ten days.

He was succeeded in the following December by George M.Brooks, who had been my friend from early boyhood.
He would in my judgment have had an eminent political career if he had remained in public life, but for his great modesty.
He never seemed to value highly anything he accomplished himself.
But his sympathy and praise were always called out by anything done by a friend.

I think Brooks took much more pleasure in anything well done or well said by one of his colleagues than in anything of his own.