The President's Report to the Board of Regents for the Academic Year ...: Financial Statement for the Fiscal Year

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Page 13 - indisputably then something remains to be done to rid college athletics of certain objectionable practices, and college faculties who have already done so much to abolish abuses are not likely to neglect their duty in the future. They all desire to secure the general participation of students in some form of outdoor activity.
Page 4 - But .the large attendance from other states, which are provided with excellent colleges, remains noteworthy and gratifying, eg, Ohio 399, Illinois 335, New York 262, Pennsylvania 197, Indiana 181, Iowa 93, Missouri 73, New England 62. All of our Territories, except Alaska, our insular possessions, 43 states and 16 foreign states and provinces, were represented in our body of students. The increase in attendance last year over that of the preceding year was between 400 and 500, a number equal or superior...
Page 3 - Isaac Cook Russell, CE, LL. D., Professor of Geology since 1892, died after a brief illness of pneumonia. He had a wide and honorable reputation as a geologist both in this country and in Europe. He had done much useful work in the service of the Michigan geological survey and in that of the United States survey. He had also written several books, >which are highly esteemed.
Page 6 - ... faculties of Cornell University and the Iowa State University and has won a recognized position among the classical scholars of America by his writings. The chair of geology, vacated by the death of Professor Russell, is temporarily filled by Professor William H. Hobbs, Ph. D., a graduate of the Western Polytechnic Institute and of the Johns Hopkins University and a student at the University of Heidelberg. He has been connected with the United States Geological Survey and has been a member of...
Page 34 - Medical Department: General Expenses 493 10 Dermatology 50 70 Materia Medica 555 75 Nervous Diseases 26542 Ophthalmology 499 73 Otology 914 39 Surgery . . 458 02 Theory and Practice 992 54 4,229 65 Homoeopathic Medical Department — General Expenses 409 95 409 95 Summer School — Expenses...
Page 33 - EXPENDITURES CHARGED TO GENERAL FUND ACCOUNTS. Salaries — General $ 60,608 21 Literary Department 147,07250 Engineering Department . 84,399 99 Law Department 48,741 90 Medical Department 50,446 62 Homoeopathic Department.. 2,366 80 Dental Department 11,910 99 Pharmacy and Chemical... 25,651 66 Summer School 14,568 75 $445,767 42 $445,767 42 Departmental Expenses : Literary Department — Appointment Committee . . 220 63 American History 33 95 Botanical Garden 275 15 English 146 01 Forestry 663...
Page 6 - ... necessary to fix a scale of compensation as high as that in some university towns, where the expense of living in a decent and becoming manner is necessarily higher than it is here, but our scale must bear a more just proportion to it than it now does, if we are permanently to retain our ablest men. This is an unwelcome statement to make in view of the present condition of our treasury, but nothing can be gained by blinding our eyes to the plain facts in the case. It is proper that the State,...
Page 12 - June 2lst (exclusive of the over-night circulation) fifty per cent belonged to English literature. The figures show the following authors to have been the most frequently borrowed: Shakespeare, Hardy, Stevenson, Dickens, Kipling, George Eliot, Jane Austen, Hawthorne, and Thackeray. Of the remaining fifty per cent the circulation was divided as follows : Philosophy and religion 5 3/5 % Sociology...
Page 9 - ... stronger schools will probably regain their former numbers. In no department of education has greater progress been made in the last few years than in that of medicine. But if the best standard of instruction is maintained, perhaps no department of education except engineering is so costly. And it is quite impossible for the old fashioned "country schools," as they were called, to meet the necessary expense, and to provide the long course of instruction now required.
Page 12 - The figures show the following authors to have been the most frequently borrowed : Shakespeare, Hardy, Stevenson, Dickens, Kipling, George Eliot, Jane Austin, Hawthorne, and Thackeray. Of the remaining fifty per cent the circulation was divided as follows, by per cent : Philosophy and Religion, 5-)^ ; Sociology and Economics, 5; Education.

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