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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1888
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KEP0KTS OF DEPARTMENT OF INSTRUCTION. 149 appears best suited to present conditions, and better results can be obtained by using better paper, perhaps without increasing the cost to the student. c. Making a black type-written copy of each page, then photographing this on a film or paper negative, which is then used as a stencil, printing copies by the blue process. Theoretically good, but would not work when it was tried a few years since, though it may be possible now with improved sensitive films. This would cost at least 20 cents per page for the materials alone. After the preparation of the lectures, copying them to make the printing stencils requires a considerable outlay of time or money, usually of both. Some professors hire copyists. I have made my own stencils, but have paid at least $250 for type-writers, ribbons and paper, no part of which will be returned to me, and pay the same price for my copies of the lectures that my students pay. The investment has been a good one, as a matter of personal convenience, and as enabling my classes to do more and better work. Yet it might seem that the time of a professor might be more profitably spent on other work, and that this cost of copying the lectures for the reproducing process should be paid by the students benefited thereby, by slightly increasing the price of blue-prints, placing the copying under charge of the blue-print department, making it as uniform as possible. EEPORT BY SAMUEL W. SHATTUCK, A. M., MATHEMATICS. C. E., PROFESSOR OF S. H. PEABODY, LL. D., Regent University of Illinois. S I R — I have the honor to make herewith the following report upon the work of the mathematical department of the University for the two years ending February 29, 1888. The work may be classed under three heads: (1.) That of the preparatory year. (2.) That taken by students in the college of literature and science, etc. (3.) That in the college of engineering. (1.) I n the preparatory year algebra is taught in the fall and winter terms, and geometry in the winter and spring terms. Mr. S. W. Stratton and Mr. E. E. Boyer have taught these classes to my satisfaction and that of the students. I may add, that a longer time might be given to these studies with advantage in respect to the after mathematical work of the student. (2.) I n the past year the study of calculus has been required in the chemical course, and in that of ancient languages. The
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