Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1882
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221 The morale of our students has been commendable, continuing the good name which the University has gained in this respect. Loyalty, order and studious habits are the normal conditions of our young men and women. Violations of order and propriety are the exceptions. A portion, including some of the most earnest and faithful, sought to introduce secret fraternities. In the discussions which followed they presented their wishes in a manner so manly and courteous that if their representations had not been met by the opinions of those of larger experience in these matters, who believed that the young men were in error as to the ultimate results of their plans, they might with much plausibility have secured the object they coveted. To their credit be it written that when the students found that your decision was adverse to them, after a momentary expression of dissatisfaction they yielded kindly and quietly to your wishes and to the authority of the University. They have with good grace abandoned what some of them had very earnestly set their hearts upon. I am confident that their maturer judgment will approve the result, though it is probably too early to expect such an admission at present. It seems proper that I should take this occasion to review the educational work of the various departments of the University. That I have not done so before has been because I have wished that time would permit me to become more thoroughly familiar with the actual condition of affairs. I preface my review with a table showing, as far as a table can exhibit, the work of each instructor in the class-room and out of it: No. Pupils. Professor or Instructor. Remarks. Selem H. Peabody Thomas J. Burrill Samuel W. Shattuck... Edward Synder Don Carlos Taft Joseph C. Pickard N. Clifford Bicker Jas. D. Crawford Henry A. Weber George E. Morrow Erederick W. Prentice. Peter Roos William T. Wood Ira O. Baker Melville A. Scovell Chas. E. Pickard Cecil H. Peabody Edwin A. Kimball Jerome Sondericker ... Nelson S. Spencer Chas. C. Barnes Chas. W. Rolfe Jas. E. Armstrong 50 25 53 1201 26 50 181 46 49 14 161 12 Regent J Vice-President, Supt. of Grounds i and Horticulture 64 Business Agent 163|Recording Secretary 46 Curator 62 29 81 19 67 Librarian 63 14 Farm Superintendent 221 17 34 14 43| 16 22 57i 6! 16 20 15j 42 17 U."S.'Army Officer^Drill Master."'.'.'.'. 34 14 Assistant in Chemical Laboratory... 58, 16 Assistant in Physical Laboratory. .. 22 Foreman of Machine Shop 57! Assistant in Physical Laboratory... 6 Foreman of Carpenter Shop 37; Assistant in Chemical Laboratory .. Assistant in Botany Assistant in Natural History The College of Agriculture steadily maintains a high character under Professors Morrow, Burrill, and Prentice. In addition to their lecture room work, which shows careful and scholarly preparation, each has a large general responsibility. Professor Morrow's duties on the farm involve the ceaseless care demanded in the management of five hundred acres of land and more than two hundred head of stock of all kinds. His work has received the oversight, the counsel, and I understand the approval, of the Farm committee. It exhibits worthy results from both an educational and a financial standpoint. In its farther systemization he will need the assistance of an intelligent foreman whose ideas and methods are in sympathy with his own. Similar service is required in Professor Burrill's department. Wtth right help and proper development there seems to be no reason why the department of Horticulture may not become self-sustaining without imparing, but rather to the benefit of, its efficiency as a means of instruction. Only his great caution in seeking for a gardener who shall prove in all respects the best man for the place has prevented him from securing already the help he needs. Professor Prentice's classes in Physiology and Veterinary Science continue to show high appreciation of his qualities as an instructor. It has also been fortunate for the University in various ways that we have in our corps of Professors a skillful and conscientious physician not less able to treat the human system than to work in his chosen field of Veterinary Science. The veterinary clinics are gaining useful notoriety, valuable alike to the farmers and to the departments. On account of disappointment in securing desired assistance and for other reasons, the annual Farmers' Institute usually held in January was this year omitted. The omission has called forth many inquiries indicating anxiety lest this gathering should be finally suspended, and showing a wider and deeper interest in it than had been supposed to exist. It is possible that a more comprehensive plan, so devised as to interfere less with regular collegiate duties, and which should bring a larger proportion of outside assistance, would make this feature of the work in the College of Agriculture more fruitful of good to attendants, to the State at large, and to the University.
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