Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1870 [PAGE 55]

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It adds assurance to our hopes, that even our critics recognize the steady advance of the University to the position it is designed to occupy ; and though they mistake the natural progress of our plans for a beneficial change in the plans themselves, we may still welcome their testimony, as a confirmation of our just expectations. Personally, I may say, " With charity towards alb with malice towards none," I am deeply grateful to Almighty God for the marked success which has attended our work, and for the fresh assurance that the grand hopes for learning and for mankind which induced my acceptance of this most difficult position, and which I expressed in the first words I had the honor to utter in the presence of this Board, are not to prove Utopian dreams, but blessed facts and bright realities. Industrial education is fast being proved a glorious possibility. We shall in due time exhibit it as a most benign and useful accomplishment. The teachers who have been employed during the year are : Wm. M. Baker, Professor of English Language and Literature; W. F. Bliss, Professor of Agriculture and Superintendent of the Farms; A. P. S. Stuart, Professor of Chemistry ; S. W. Robinson, Professor of Mechanical Science; T. J. Burrill, Assistant Professor of Botany, etc.; S. W. Shattuck, Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Civil Engineering; Ed. Snyder, Assistant Professor of Book-Keeping, Military Tactics and German; James Belanger, Teacher of Architectural and Mechanical Drawing; H. M. Douglass, Assistant Teacher of Language, and Librarian; and Robt. Warder, Assistant in Laboratory. I should be unjust, alike to them and to my own feelings, if I did not express to you my profound sense of the ability and earnestness with which these gentlemen have performed their duties, and the zeal with which they have labored for the good of the students and the interests of the University. I must also mention my great satisfaction with the valuable course of twelve lectures given by Dr. J. A. Warder, your Lecturer on Pomology; and the course of thirty lectures now being delivered by Professor Sanborn Tenney, on Zoology and its relations to the pursuits of mankind. These lectures have been attended by large numbers of citizens, and have been highly appreciated. There have also been employed as foreman and assistants, J. S. Searfoss, in the carpenter shop ; Thos. Franks, on the gardens and ornamental grounds; H. K. Yickroy, in the nurseries and orchards; and Geo. S. Upstone, on the farm. I have reason to believe that all these gentlemen have performed their duties with fidelity, and with a praiseworthy regard to the best interests of the University. Mr. Searfoss and Mr. Franks were employed by the Board, and Mr. Vickroy and Mr. Upstone by Prof. Bliss, under authority given by the Board.

LECTURE COURSES.

Besides the ordinary University Lectures, there have been three courses of lectures given during the year to the farmers and fruit-growers of the State.