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building, $15,000; for a sheep barn, model poultry house, blacksmith's shop, and improvement of the barn and swine building, $7,500. Large delegations of farmers, sometimes numbering 300, have visited the experimental station during the year.

President R. H. Jesse, College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts of the University of the State of Missouri: Laboratory exercises in all technical subjects run parallel with the class-room instruction, two and one-half hours of laboratory work being equivalent to one hour of class work. During the year a complete dairy equipment, exclusively for instruction purposes, including different styles of separators, churns, butter workers, testers, pasteurizing apparatus, etc., has been provided. An entomological laboratory, with a cabinet of over 8,000 specimens, has been equipped for the study of economic and systematic entomology. A herbarium of the fruits and twigs of the leading forest trees has been added to the forestry collection, and more than 700 jars of preserved typical specimens of fruits and vegetables have been added to the horticultural laboratory collection. On the horticultural grounds are being grown, primarily for experimentation, but used also for instruction purposes, 400 varieties of apples, 60 varieties of peaches, 120 varieties of plums (including complete collection of domesticated Japanese sorts, all grown in orchard form), 125 varieties of grapes, 500 strawberry seedlings, selected from more than 4,000 seedlings bred here during the past four years. A large collection of Japanese, European, and American nuts has been planted during the present year. During this year several hundred seedling plums, handpollinated cresses of European, Japanese, and American types, and several hundred seedling peaches of known parentage have been grown for experimentation and instruction. There has been added during the year a horticultural laboratory consisting of a central building 30 by 30 feet, and two wings, each 22 by 30 feet, heated by steam and so arranged that different temperatures may be maintained in each compartment. It has stone foundation, pressed-brick walls 3 feet high, Tiron frames filled with white pine, grooved sash bars, and best American A glass. The glass walls in main portion rise 8 feet above the brick walls and 27 feet above the floor in the center. Granitoid walks. Connected with the laboratory is a brick boiler house 12 by 14 feet, with a 14-horsepower horizontal boiler capable of heating the entire laboratory and forcing houses attached. The purpose of this structure is the study of methods of hothouse forcing of fruits and vegetables, floriculture, and experimental work in vegetable physiology. Cost, $4,500.

Director Walter B. Richards, School of Mines and Metallurgy of the University of Missouri: The school continues to emphasize its technical side and to strengthen its courses of study. Pure mathematics and physics have been moved up about half a year, so as to give the student at an earlier stage preparation for specializing. The chemical laboratory is being enlarged.

President James Reid, College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, Bozeman, Mont.: Special attention has been given to laboratory work in chemistry, physics, physiology, and botany, two hours of laboratory work being considered equal to one hour of class work. Five buildings have been erected for class and laboratory work, to wit: A main building 90 by 110 feet, of brick, with stone foundation, three stories and basement; a chemical and physical laboratory building in one, 70 by 90 feet, of brick, with stone foundation, with basement; a shop building of wood, with stone foundation; a drill shed of wood, with stone foundation, and a veterinary building of stone, two stories high. The main building, laboratory, and shop are to be heated with hot-air furnaces. The estimated cost of the five buildings, including furnishing and equipment, is $100,000, raised by bonds secured by 50,000 acres of college lands received by the State on admission to the Union. Chancellor George E. MacLean, University of Nebraska: As never before in the history of the institution, the inseparable union of culture and agriculture, with emphasis on the latter word, has been brought out. The new professor of agri

culture has inaugurated a more scientific training in applied agriculture. A three-months course in agriculture has been added to the agricultural college. Farmers' institutes have been provided for in the form of university extension, 48 institutes being held during the year, with an attendance in the neighborhood of 15,000 people.

The regents of the university have made provision for the substantial enlargement of the quarters for agricultural chemistry, and a separate laboratory on the agricultural experiment-station farm will be equipped during the coming summer. The course in dairying will be greatly strengthened during the coming year by the purchase of apparatus and the erection of a separate dairy building. The new university library building has been completed, at a cost of $110,000. The partial crop failures in Nebraska the past two seasons have turned the attention of the farmers to the importance of scientific farming, and as a consequence the attendance in the college has increased, and a general interest in its work has deepened. President J. E. Stubbs, Nevada State University: The college of agriculture and mechanic arts has laboratory exercises in all scientific and technical subjects, shopwork in mechanics, and research in history, literature, and political science. This species of work occupies the afternoon of each college day, while class exercises occupy the forenoon. There is military drill four days in the week, from 11.45 a. m. to 12.30 p. m.

To eliminate an element of weakness from the college courses of study and to insure a better entrance preparation, the university has organized a preparatory department of three years, which requires, for example, two years of French and mathematics to solid geometry for admission to any of the schools of science or of agriculture. Increased attention is given to English and history in the preparatory school. The thought of the faculty continues to be directed to the improvement of the college courses of study, and the attendance of students shows a most gratifying increase. In the way of new buildings there has been erected an annex to the mechanical building, 50 by 60 feet, one story, containing foundry and blacksmith shop, costing $3,000. The main portion of this annex, however, is to be erected when the legislature has made the appropriation. The old mechanical building, the only wooden one on the campus, was destroyed by fire during October, 1895. A dormitory of brick and stone, three stories high, with basement, containing rooms for 100 boys and apartments for the head master and his family and for the assistant masters, has also been erected at a cost of $27,699. For the accommodation of the young ladies in attendance a structure of brick and stone, three stories in height, with basement, has been built at a cost of $14,348. A gymnasium and drill hall, 60 by 120 feet, costing $7,000, was built wholly by voluntary subscription. In addition to these buildings the experiment station building has had an addition built to it, 21 by 29 feet, two stories, of stone and brick, costing $1,101. The basement is a laboratory for anatomy, physiology, and bacteriology; the second story a laboratory for agriculture and the results of farm experiments. The regents have leased a valuable tract of 80 acres of land near the campus for farming purposes, the organization of a model farm under the conditions of irrigation forming a part of the plans of the university.

President Charles S. Murkland, New Hampshire College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts: In accordance with an act of the legislature of 1895, a department of horticulture and a two-years course in agriculture were established during the year, to which students are admitted who can pass a fair and reasonable examination in reading, spelling, writing, arithmetic, English grammar, and the history of the United States. In this course the student must devote not fewer than ten hours a week during the year to practical instruction and manual training in branches of agriculture that require special knowledge and skill, one-third of which time may be devoted to suitable practical instruction and manual training ED 96- -41

in shop work in wood and iron, but any student may be excused from some or any of these exercises. To carry the act into effect $25,000 was appropriated for 1895–96, and the same amount for 1896-97. The provisional programme for this course is given below. The dairy school and institute have been carried on, as well as the correspondence course.

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President Austin Scott, Rutger's Scientific School, New Jersey State College for the Benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts: The courses in electricity and in biology are growing in value to the undergraduates, both in class-room work and in laboratory practice, by the constant additions of needed apparatus. The course in agriculture is now on a firm basis, the teaching of the subject in an elementary way to each member of the freshman class by the professor of agriculture and the assumption of the duties of superintendent of the college farm by the same officer affording unusual facilities for instruction in the theory and practice of agriculture. No notable changes in the buildings of the institution have been made during the year, the accommodations and equipment being adequate for the present. In the general work of the extension department three full courses of twelve lectures each, four half courses of six lectures each, and one special course of two lectures have been given, as follows: Two full courses in history and one in astronomy; one half course each in history, electricity, English statesmen, and art, and one special course of two lectures in art. The total attendance at the 62 lectures was 2,011 persons, and the average attendance 1,525. The total attendance at the class hours following each lecture was 675 persons, and the average attendance 554. Ordinary full-course certificates were awarded to 11 persons and honor certificates to 6. Ordinary half-course pass cards were awarded to 11 persons and honor pass cards to 2. Attention has also been given in the extension department during the year to agricultural work. Two

courses in agriculture and one course in botany, each course of six lectures, have been given. The total attendance' at the 18 lectures was 130 persons, and the average attendance 119. The total attendance at the class hours was 126 persons, and the average attendance 107. Ordinary pass cards were awarded to 3 persons. President Samuel P. McCrea, New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts: The college has a very complete wood shop and blacksmith shop in successful operation. In the way of buildings there has been added during the year an extensive college shop, costing $4,000, which has an engine room, foundry, machine shop, drafting room, and physical laboratory. To equip this building $5,000 has been set aside by the board of regents, and when it has been completely fitted up $12,000 will have been spent in buildings and equipment for the department of mechanical engineering alone. Continued effort has been made in the direction of establishing a higher standard of admission and broader and deeper courses of study.

President J. G. Schurman, Cornell University: The buildings for the State Veterinary College are seven in number, as follows: The main building, 142 by 42 feet and three stories high, overlooks East avenue and an intervening park of 220 by 300 feet. The walls are of dull yellowish-buff pressed brick, on a base of Gouverneur marble; window and door facings of Indiana limestone and terra-cotta ornamentation. On the first floor are the museum and rooms for the dean and the professors of anatomy and physiology. The second floor is devoted to the upper part of the museum, a lecture room, reading room, library, and rooms for professors. The third floor is devoted to laboratories of histology, pathology, and bacteriology, and the necessary subsidiary offices. Connected with the main building and forming its east wing is a structure 90 by 40 feet and one story high. This contains the laboratories, lecture rooms, and other offices of anatomy and physiology. Its floors are impermeable granolithic cement, the walls lined by enameled white brick, and the ceilings covered with sheet steel. A second extension from the main building is the boiler and engine room, where power is generated for heating, ventilation, lighting, and the elevators.

The surgical operating theater is a separate building in the rear of the main building, and is furnished with rooms for forge, instruments, water heater, etc. The lighting and equipment and the facilities for demonstration have been specially attended to. The general patients' ward, 100 by 31 feet, is furnished with box and other stalls, heating apparatus, baths, and all necessary appliances. The floor is of impermeable granolithic cement, and the ceilings of painted sheet steel. There is also a fodder room of 20 by 30 feet. The isolation ward, 54 by 15 feet, has its stalls absolutely separated from one another and each opening by its own outer door. It has the usual granolithic floor, with walls of vitrified brick, and painted sheet-steel ceilings. The mortuary building has an impermeable floor, walls of enameled brick, and painted steel-plate ceilings, and is fitted with every convenience for conducting post-mortem examinations and preparing pathological specimens. Another building of 51 by 20 feet will be devoted to clinical uses. These, with a cottage for the stud groom, complete the list of State buildings erected for veterinary college. The equipment will be made as complete as possible for both educational uses and original research.

The addition to Sage College consists of a main part 40 by 100 feet, and a wing 38 by 40 feet, four stories high, with walls of brick to correspond with the original building, and slated roofs. The first story is 14 feet high, the second 10, the third and fourth each 9. The first story contains a gymnasium 37 by 63 feet, two bathrooms, a swimming tank, three dressing rooms, a drying room, the instructor's room, an examination room, a waiting room, and a janitor's room. In the second story are ten students' rooms, a bathroom, a loggia, 10 by 36 feet, opening to

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the east, and a suite of rooms, consisting of parlor, bedroom, and bathroom, for guests. The third and fourth stories have each 17 students' rooms, a bathroom, storeroom, and linen closets. The rooms are nearly all single, each 10 by 15 feet, with closet 24 by 7. They will accommodate 50 persons. There is a staircase in a hallway 10 feet wide at the western end where the addition joins the main building, and another in the south end of the wing, each 4 feet wide and running from the first floor to the fourth. There is a standpipe with 60 feet of 2-inch hose on each floor for use in case of fire. The western hallway on each floor is connected by an opening with the main building. All rooms and halls are to be heated by steam and lighted by electricity. There is no display of ornament about the building, but the materials and workmanship are thoroughly good. Considerable alterations, additions, and improvements have also been made in the original building. The room formerly used as a gymnasium, 25 by 40 feet, is now occupied by the kitchen, baking room, pantry, storeroom, and servants' dining room. Above it two stories have been added, containing servants' bedrooms. The former kitchen, pantry, and storeroom have been converted into dining rooms, and in the upper stories rooms that were occupied by servants are refitted and prepared for use by students.

[The changes lately made by Cornell University in regard to the degree to be hereafter conferred and to the admission requirements are given in another chapter of this report.]

President J. II. Worst, North Dakota Agricultural College: No material changes were made during the past year in courses of study or methods of instruction, though the largely increased number of students made it necessary to enlarge the corps of instruction and to provide additional facilities.

President James H. Canfield, Ohio State University: The university has been divided into six distinct colleges: (1) Agriculture and domestic sciences; (2) arts, philosophy, and science; (3) engineering; (4) law; (5) pharmacy; (6) veterinary medicine. Each college is under its own dean and faculty and has entire control of its students and its own affairs. The general faculty considers those matters of common interest to all colleges. All preparatory work has been dropped. The following new courses have been established: In the college of agriculture and domestic science, a full four years' course and a short two years' course in domestic science; in the college of arts, philosophy, and science, a two years' course preparatory to law and journalism; in the college of engineering, a three years' course in architecture and a full four years' course in ceramics and clay working; in the college of pharmacy, a full four years' and a short (two years') course, preparing for State examination for registered pharmacist. A new astronomical observatory has been erected and equipped by the generosity of Mr. Emerson McMillin, of New York City, at an expense of nearly $16,000. The last legislature advanced the annual levy from one-twentieth to one-tenth of a mill, and gave the university permission to anticipate $200,000 of this levy for the immediate erection of much-needed buildings and for additions to equipment.

President G. E. Morrow, Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College: The college has but one regular course of study. This may be classed as an agricultural or a general science course, with special adaptation to agriculture. This course, which requires four years to complete, leads to the degree of bachelor of science, and students are admitted to it on passing a satisfactory examination in the common-school branches. A preparatory class is maintained for students not fully prepared for the regular course. Two additional instructors have been engaged, and for the first time all four of the regular college classes have been represented. Considerable additions to the libraries and apparatus for teaching science have been made during the year.

President John M. Bloss, State Agricultural College of Oregon: The methods of

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