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PROCEEDINGS OP THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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that I have not seen him. My recommendation is based upon the confidence of Deans Burrill and Davenport that the appointment is the best step that is open to us. 9. Jennie M. Latzer, as Laboratory Assistant in Bacteriology, at $50 a month, for nine months, to commence September 15, and that $200 of the whole amount be paid from the Agricultural College fund, and $250 from the State station fund. This is the arrangement arrived at by Professor Burrill to make up for the absence of Mr. Ward. 10. Eugenie Goldery, as Assistant upon the Piano in the School of Music, at $70 a month for ten months. This is the place of Mr. Eisner. The appointee is a young woman who is a graduate of Carlton College and the Chicago Conservatory of Music, and hag been the last year a teacher of the piano at Carlton College. It has not been practicable for me to see her, but Director Lawrence represents her to be a woman of good culture, with the advantages of foreign travel, and a fine teacher. 11. George Eoss Schwartz, as Instructor upon the Violin, at $80 a month for ten months. Mr. Schwartz is a graduate of the University of Wooster, Ohio, and of the New England Conservatory of Music. He is thirty years of age. He has taught the violin, viola and 'cello, as well as theory, harmony and the history of music in institutions of considerable prominence for seven or eight years. He is undoubtedly a man of very good general scholarship as well as of marked professional attainments. I have not seen him myself, but have had the benefit of a very full correspondence with him, and Director Lawrence has been to Ohio to see him. I am confident the appointment is a good one. 12. There are two or three other appointments, notably the asistant professor of electrical engineering, and the high school visitor, caused by recent resignations, and perhaps two or three minor ones, which 1 have not yet been able to determine upon, and I recommend that you authorize me to make them as soon as practicable. 13. Dean Davenport has recommended the appointment of Mr. Newell J. Morehouse as an instructor in animal husbandry with special reference to horses. I have not seen Mr. Morehouse, but accept the statements of Deans Burrill and Davenport, who have. From their statements it seems that he has been a successful breeder and dealer in horses for a number of years, that he is a man of sound character and likable ways, that he attended Albion College for two years, but has never finished a college course, and that his college work was in literary subjects. It is clear that he has never made the breeding of horses the subject of scientific study. Under these circumstances I cannot recommend Mr. Morehouse for appointment to a University instructorship. I, however, accept Dean Davenport's statements that there are no available men scientifically prepared in this line of work and that the College of Agriculture is in need of the practical help of a man of Mr. Morehouse's qualities and experience, and I act upon suggestions made by him in answer to my objections, and recommend that Mr. Morehouse be employed from month to month, at $120 per month, to commence when he begins work, but without faculty position or title, or definite tenure of office. In this way we obviate a difficulty which seems to me very substantial, and in time we shall doubtless know better what it is wise to do. 14. I transmit herewith the estimates for the College of Agriculture and the Experiment Station for the quarter ending December 31, 1902, and recommend that they be approved as follows: