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I beg to bring to your attention once again the question of raising
the salaries of the professors. It is understood that you have been
anxious to recognize their quality and service and the increased
cost of living by doing what is here proposed so soon as the income
of the College would justify it. In some cases the difficulties of the
present situation are embarrassing in the extreme, and if you can
possibly see your way to this act of simple justice it is believed you
will not hesitate to do it. The classes in several of the departments
are now too large for the best results in teaching. More men are
needed, but we should be wiser to limit the number of men whom
we receive as students until this urgently needed increase of salaries
has been provided for. I do, however, recommend to you the
appointment at this time of an Associate Professor in the department
of Chemistry. The assumption by Dr. Brewer of the responsibilities
of the office of Dean of the College limits the amount of time
which he can now give to his department. He was forced in the
early spring, under the pressure of the extra work, to drop one of
his regular courses and subbstitute one which required less of his
time. This appointment would involve for next year an outlay of
only $1,000 in excess of what the department now costs.

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You will note the steady increase in the number of students. The
total registration is 459, as against 435 last session. The very great
majority of them have been earnest and successful
in their work. In this record the address and
faithfulness of the Dean of the College have
played an important part. For the details of
deportment, scholarship, and absences you are respectfully referred
to his report, which is printed herewith. The general religious situation
in the College is presented by Rev. Walter N. Johnson, the College
pastor, in his accompanying report. The new church building,
for which your Board contributed the site, will be a most important
addition to the equipment of the College. It will supply the opportunity
for a better service to the religious life of the student body,
besides elevating the standards of church work in the minds of the
future religious leaders of our State.

Your attention is called to the following statistics of students
registered this session:

The lecture fee which you authorized the Faculty to collect of the
students has enabled the Lecture Committee to secure, beside several
individual lectures, two valuable series of
lectures, one in the fall delivered by Dr. Robert
S. McArthur, the other delivered in the spring
by Dr. Hamilton Hold, editor of The Independent.
The committee is expecting on the same basis to make satisfactory
provision for this sort of contact with the outside world at suitable
intervals during the next session.

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The committee appointed by you to have in charge the erection
of the new dormitory has secured plans and specifications from Mr.
Frank E. Perkins, of New York City. The general
scheme proposes a series of independent
units under one roof which may be added in succession
as need may require. The committee
will undertake now to put up only four units containing accommodations
for sixy men, and costing in the neighborhood of $30,000.
The committee has accepted this responsibility, in the absence of
financial provision by the Board, on the understanding that it is
not to be a charge upon the current income of the College.

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At a nominal cost, Mr. Frank E. Perkins has made a sketch plan
of the college campus on which are indicated the site of future
buildings. The object of this piece of work was
at once to beautify the grounds and to preserve
the College from irregularity and disorder in the
course of its coming material development. The
Davey Tree Expert Company of Kent, Ohio, was employed this spring
to do needed work on the great oaks of the campus, and a fertilizer