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PROCEEDINGS OF BOALD OF TRUSTEES.

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George Storey, class of 1874, Degree of Civil Engineer. Howard Silver, class of 1872, Degree of Master of Literature. Alonzo L. Whitcomb, class of 1872, Degree of Master of Literature. Parley A. Phillips, class of 1873, Degree of Master of Literature. Ebenezer L. P r e wry, class of 1874, Degree of Master of Literature. The faculty also recommends t h a t a certificate of graduation be issued to Judson F." Going, of the class of 1883.

ENROLLMENT.

You will be pleased to learn t h a t notwithstanding the serious difficulties in the way, the attendance of students for the year considerably surpasses t h a t of any former year in the history of t h e University. You will remember t h a t the increase last year was for us phenomenally great, b u t a comparison of t h e numbers of the last and t h e present years shows favorably for the latter. Then the number in the graduating class was 65; now it is 68. The summaries, as given in the two catalogues, are as follows:

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This shows a grand total of 743 against 714 last year, an increase of 29; and of University students proper, of 552 against 495, an increase of 57. This last is 11.5 per cent. The preparatory has 30 and the freshman class 21 less t h a n last year, showing t h a t the increase is in the upperclasses, which, to my mind, is the most encouraging feature of the comparison. So far as the freshman class is concerned, however, this comes about in part from differences in classification. Last year there were 9 post-graduate students; this year there are 22. Last year there were in the University courses, 74 women; this year there are 88, a gain of 11) per cent. This very satisfactory increase is no doubt in part a response to the better provisions made in recent years for women students, and ought to be encouraging for further efforts in the same direction. Altogether there were last year 104 women, this year there are 109. By courses there are no very striking changes in the relative numbers of students for the last two years. The greatest .actual increase is in electrical engineering, where t h e total numbers are 123 now, against 94 last year, a gain of 29, or about 31 per cent. In municipal and sanitary engineering there was but one student last year; and now there are 5. I n Latin and Greek, the previous year, there were 36 students; this last year there have been 55, a gain of 19, or nearly 53 per cent.