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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1878
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60 APPROPRIATIONS, ETC.—Continued. Fuel and light Stationdry and printing Buildings and grounds Incidental expense Agricultural department Horticultural " Mechanical *' Architectural " Chemical ' '4 Military * Specials—Book ke eping, checks, samples, etc Plants and seeds for green house Chicago Ep. Baker'sEp....Courts charges Advertising unexpended Papyrograph for regent' s office Engineering transit Model of horse (from state appropriation) Microscopes, unexpended $2,000 00 200 00 100 00 200 00 2,331 33 213 84 207 78 402 28 151 95 50 00 $ 35 00 50 00 20 64 11 55 69 50 85 00 550 00 788 43 17 57 1,575 69 $23,932 87 T h e board then adjourned to meet again on Wednesday, December 5th, 1877, at 4 o'clock p . m . B O A R D M E E T I N G , D E C E M B E R 5, 1877. The bo£i£i met in the University parlor, at 4 o'clock p. m. President Cobb in the chair. Present, Messrs. Cobb, Gardner, Mason, McLean, Pickrell and Sabin. Absent, Governor Cullom, Hon. Gillham, Messrs. Byrd, Brown and Flagg. T h e record of last meeting was then read and adopted. T h e regent, Dr. J. M. Gregory, then read the following r e p o r t : R E G E N T ' S REPORT To the Trustees of the HI. Industrial University: I am glad to be able to report a healthful and prosperous condition of the institution under your charge. The number of students in actual attendance is larger than in any former term, though less, of course, than the total attendance of last year. The total attendance shown on the catalogues always includes all who have been in attendance any term of the year. T h e total number of this will doubtless exceed those of any former year. Those already enrolled for this year, number 386 ; males 313, and females 73. T h e work of the term has gone on happily and successfully. Of the new students admitted at the opening of this term, entered the preparatory classes, entered the first year or freshmen classes, entered the second year or sophomore classes, and entered special courses, such as the farmer's or the builder's. Our work is steadily increasing in nearly all directions, and if this increase goes on, there will be no need for additional help in some of the departments. By hard labor I have thus far been able to provide for the instruction in the two important branches of social science,
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