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107 other losses in our faculty.. I recommend the appointment of a committee to report upon this subject to the board at its next quarterly meeting in December.

SPECIAL CASES.

In connection with this subject of salaries I ask your attention to the following requests for immediate increase: I. E. C. Kimball, foreman of the machine shop, is now receiving but $1,000 a year. Mr. K. has proved himself a faithful, capable and efficient officer, and as we must now throw additional responsibility upon him in the instruction of the shop-practice classes, I recommend that his salary be increased to $100 a month. II. I repeat my recommendation that the salary of F . A. Parsons be increased to $1,000 per annum, or at least that the monthly pay of $75 be continued through the twelve months. I I I . As Chas. E . Pickard is now serving his third year, and as his work occupied more than the average time, it seems but reasonable that his salary should be increased to the $60 per month heretofore paid by the board to the instructors of equal standing. I V . I wish also to call the attention of the board to the cases of P r o f ' s Crawford and Ricker. These gentlemen have now approved themselves, by several years of increasing usefulness, as good and true men in their respective departments; they have also been called upon for extra service, Prof. Ricker in the case of the shop, and Prof. Crawford in the management of the library. Starting with us as young men, they have risen by faithful efforts to an equality of rank and service with the professors employed before them, and there seems no reason why their salaries should not be raised to the common standard. If it is not -possible to make this increase at present, I recommend that these cases be referred to the committee already suggested on the subject of salaries. I refer 'herewith the communications of Messrs. Kimball, Parsons and Pickard.

ANNUAL R E P O R T S .

The communication from the corresponding secretary will inform you of the causes of the delay in the appearance of our reports. The board will recollect that under the law of congress, the University is bound to present annual reports instead of biennial ones as required by the state law. I t may be wise to call the attention of the coming general assembly to this discrepancy.

STATE APPROPRIATIONS.

As the governor will ask from us a statement of our wants, to lay before the state legislature, it is desirable that steps be taken at an early day to determine the amounts which may be needed from the state for the next two years. There are some other questions which may properly be considered in connection with the legislation to be asked, especially that of the name of the University, a^misnomer which has already cost much confusion and the loss of many valuable