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1901]

PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

11. I present herewith the estimates of the Dean of the College of Agriculture and Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station for the next quarter, and recommend that they be approved, and appropriations made therefor as follows:

FOR OOLLIGB. FOR EXPERIMENT STATION.

GeneralAgronomy Animal husbandry Dairy husbandry Horticulture Veterinary science Household science Office and incidentals Total From surplus of last year— For furniture and apparatus From special appropriation— For building of silos

$1,000 00 1,000 00 600 00 900 00 100 00 200 00 200 00 $4,000 00 1,000 00 450 00

Estimates for quarter ending Dec. 31,1900. From general fundSalaries $1,650 00 Publications 1,200 00 Agronomy 600 00 Animal industry 200 00 Dairy husbandry 100 00 Horticulture 500 00 Botany 50 00 Office and incidentals 200 00 Total $4,500 00 From farm fundEquipment of agricultural building 900 00

Appropriations were made in accordance with the estimates of the foregoing papers. 12. The annual national convention of Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations will be held at New Haven, Connecticut, in November. We are entitled to one delegate representing the College, and one representing the Experiment Station. It seems to me that we should be represented in important meetings whenever practicable, and I think this one exceedingly important. I should like it if both the agricultural and mechanical sides of our work could be represented. It is usual for the agricultual and mechanical colleges, as well as the experiment stations of the State universities to be represented at this meeting, and it is coming to be more common to see that representatives attend from the mechanical departments as well as from the agricultural. I suggest that you authorize such representation, and authorize me to make suitable arrangements about it. I t was voted that President McLean be appointed a delegate from the University to the convention named above and that President Draper appoint one or two other delegates13. The registration at the opening of the University is large beyond all precedent. Up to last night, considerably more than 600 new students had been registered at the seat of the University. I suppose the new students in the College of Medicine, and the School of Pharmacy, will reach quite 300. The growth is very evenly distributed throughout nearly all of the departments, and practically all of the departments are overruning. Many of them are crowded beyond their capacity for instruction. It is apparently imperative that three or four additional instructors be employed, and I ask your authoriy to arrange for them. As an item of interest, and to the end that a suitable record may be made, I advise you that the attendance of freshmen and sophomore students in the military department will apparently reach 500, and that it has been determined to make a regimental organization. This will consist of two battalions, of three companies each. The whole will be commanded by a cadet lieutenantcolonel, and each of the battalions by a major. Application has been made to the War Department for additional arms and supplies. A. S. DRAPER, President. Authority was given to secure additional instructors as needed.