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Minutes of the Board of Trustees meetings held in 1878RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD Of TRUSTEES OF THE A & M COIJLEGE OF ALABAMA - ' F. M. Reese , Secretary Commencing June 24, 1878 Auburn, Alabama Jun~ 24, 1878 A - [CJ At t he regular anxlUal meeting of , the Board of Trust ees, of ,...

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Summary:Minutes of the Board of Trustees meetings held in 1878RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD Of TRUSTEES OF THE A & M COIJLEGE OF ALABAMA - ' F. M. Reese , Secretary Commencing June 24, 1878 Auburn, Alabama Jun~ 24, 1878 A - [CJ At t he regular anxlUal meeting of , the Board of Trust ees, of , the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama held in the College Buildings at 9 o'cl ock A.M., the roll being called there were pre sent: His Excellen9Y, Geo,_ S. H()uqton, Governor of the State , ex- officio President of the Boara- and Messrs . Barnes, Bi bb , Box , Dowdell, Haralson Ivlalone and St an'sel. Afte r the roll call Hr. Langdon appeared and took his seat . Absent. : Mes srs . l1awler and Moren •. The President of the College bej.ng called upon read and submitted his report . To the Board of rrustees. Report of the President of the College A & M College - June 24th" 1878 Gentlemen: To the College, t J1:is has been a year of sorrow. . On the 6th of February Cadet Charles S. Parkman died of pneumonia contracted as his father states while on a visit ' to his h~me . ' This, was the first de.ath that has occurred i n the college ·since its organizat'ion. From that time the qark :vdI).gs, :oi' the deatp Angel seemed to have r ested over the Institution. On the 14th of '~aryh Professpr B. !3 . Ross left the earthl y tenement f or t hat house not made with hands . On the 5t h of ~a rch the household of another m~mb~ r of the Faculty was stricken by ithe bolt of death and ?- vacant cha.ir- a r \>rcoken family circle is the, c<?pstant r eminder of the terrible blow. On the 25th of Nay as if our load of sorrow vras pot already enough, t here was added t he death of Professor E. Q.Thorntao. ~hen a gain on the 7th of J'une Cadet , J . vI.' Allen died of typhoid fever'. Such repeated blows have seldom fal len upon any Instit ution . Of the diseases causi ng these deaths but one of them could have originated in this locality. Of the five, three were f rom constitutional di seases, one was contra cted at home and the other may have peen produced by local cau~es . , . On the occasion of the deat h of their colaborers , the Faculty has,. by r esolutions and in other appropriate ways , t esti f i ed their appreciation of t hese Prof~s sors and t he grief they felt at the~r loss. Of Professor E. B. Ross they sayl'that by his death a grievous affliction visits at once the col lege of Hhich he was for many years an 'abl e and faithful officer­his country vJ'hose interests he ever served, his church '\<[hose al tars were dear to him, but especially his family to which he was indeed and in t r uth an honored head and comfort . II ( Of Professo r E. Q . Thornton they, say IIwe his associates .dleel t hat in tpe ,death of Prof . Thornton the community has lost a va~uab~e member~ the state a public spirited citizen, tne church a devoted christian, the cause of Education a wise and earnest a dvocat.e , the College an able 'and accomplished Professor, and the Faculty a judicious, coUnsellor and a warm f r iend v,rho had endeared himsel f t o us by hi s unif orm courtesy, his thoughtf~ kindness, hi ~ generous nature, his modest yet sterling worth .. 11 But t his sad" picture is not unrelieved by considerations of hope and promise­when in former reports t o the Boar d(I have st at ed that t he College was steadily grovring in public favor- t hat by its hi gh standar d of scholarship, by its earnest purpose to accomplish the work assigned it, and more than all, by its adaptat i on to t he vmnts of our people , it was comnending itsel f to the t hought­full men of the state, I was uttering words of confident assurance drm-lTn f rom f acts too many and too plain to be overlooked even sooner than I hoped the deve lopmen~ of their growing conf i dence has come. In number of students, t his session has placed t he college first among the Institutions of the state and in t he front rank of colleges in the South. Our catalogue shows a list of 238 . This increase of' munbers has been gained not by parading b ~ fo re t he public merits ,'Ie do not possess, but by the real worth and the substantial work of the college. This fact gives aSSlITanCe t hat the popula r i t y of' the i nsti tution is not ephemeral- will not like Jonah ' s gourd perish i n a night . The increase in students r ender ed necessary a l a r ge outlay in improvements on the Buildings and in facilities for their accommodation. The basement story has been f itted up, ' adding to our f ormer a ccommodations elegant apartments for the Chemical Laboratory, t wo good rooms for the preparatory department, each capable of contai ning 60 pupils ; two good armories, a Tr easurer's off ice and a guard room, and when compl et ed t here ",rill be also a room for fuel and one for quartermaster stores. " There has al so been purchased one hundred new desks f or students- a l evel for t he Engineers epartment costing ~;;15 0 and various other appliances of instruction which it is deemed useless"',to "enumerate. The college is now capabl e of accommodating 300 students, a number vIe hope to have during the next year. I subr¢.t the report of t en Professors, show;Lng the amount of work done in their departments of the college . FARM During t he past year experiments were made with different varieties of cot ton seed . An a cre of each of four varieti es vlTas planted and each was fertilized and cultivated in precisely the same vmy. The cost of the fertilizer was $13.50 per acre. The season was unfavorable and the yield of some of the acres which suffered most from the exce-ssive "drought was dminished nearly fifty p'er cent. The four acres yielded the following amount of seed cot t on: The Buck Cotton 1300 ~b~ " Anderson Cotton IhOO " II Baker "(Rameses) 1930 II " Sloppy II 224.0 It The a cre of Sloppy cotton made exclusive of bagging and ties. 760 Ibs lint cott on. This acre after deducting t he cost of the fertilizer, $13 . 50, gave a product of :jp63 .00, counting the cost of labor at $15.00, there would be left as net profit on t his acre the sum of ~4.8 .00 . The account with this one stands thu.s: For fertilizer $13.50. To l abor 15.00 Total debt 28. 50 Cr. by 760 Ibs . cotton 76.00 $4.7 .. 50 The unexhausted part of the fertilizer ought to be deducted f rom the expense of t his acre . fy experience and observ'?-tion as "well as that of others, having led me to the conclusion that such fertilizers · as I employed bGI'e not less than one- fourth of t he value f or the ~UXEeding year or crop. I should certainly estimate t he real gain upon t his acre as not less ~ han fifty dollars. The corn crop v,rhich at the close of the sessi on l ast June promised a harvest of sixty bushels per acre , Has by t he unf ortunate season r educed t o thirt y- six. But as an evidence of t he correctness of t he sta t ement t hat one- fourth of the val ue of t he fertilizer is left for the succeeding crop , I may state that this plot of ground, after t he corn crop w-as gathered, was sOlm dmm i n oats and yiel ded 68 bushels p_er acre wi thout any fertilizer . After having for years tried all the varieties of wheat I could comll1.and I came to t he conclusion t hat t he common IIblue stemll or lIpurple straw" is the best wheat for our ~e ction of the State and I det ermined to 'use every ef fort t~ improve it so as to increase t he ' yield. La st year I cultivated a'small piece of ground planted i n wheat in rows 18 i nches apart and 12 inches in the row. Selecting t he best heads f r om t his I planted last fall one acre ' in checks 18 i nc es each way- cult ivated it by givipg it two plowi ngs with a small garden plow- enriched it Ivith $7.50 worth of fertilizer and a sack of salt. The yi eld of the a cre was 40 bushels. This acre, without fertilizer or cultivation would not have yielded more t han 15 busnels. The fertilizer could not by any possibility have increased the yield mor e t han 12! bushels . The r emaining i qcrease of 12~ bushels could be due to nothing but the cultivation. The history of t his acre planted in wheat is not vIi thout inte-re st . Fi ve years ago it ,vould not 'have produced five bushels of corn. It was almost absolutely barren. During t he f our years it has been under my charge it has produced in value the sum of $162.50 ' When recei ved fertili zers costing . 41.50 The product has exceeded cost of fertilizer $121.00 Estimating ,t he value of t he l abor bestowed upon the crops at $10 per annum, or ~40 f or the four years and we have a net gain above cost of both labor and f ertilizer on this acire of ;p81 LBoI' t he 4 years or $20 . 25 per annum. In addition such has been t he improvement of t he land, that it would now bring 250 Ibs of lint cotton without any : fe.rtili zing . The question may be asked why with such result:;;, i s t he college farm an expense to the Institut ion, instead of 'a source of i nc; me . "The answer to t his question is easy. First, many things a r e changed to farm account by some measure which are not expended on this Farm at all. All the expenses of 'the Agricult ural St ation iIl North Alaba.m:t and . all the outlay on the college garden is charged to Farm acct . Then all the i nvestment made for the use of the f a rm of whatever kind is , charged to t his account and is by many supposed to be a part of the current expenses of t he Farm. Thus l ast year' it was necessaI'lJ t o rebuild almost the entire fence enclosing it . The yard of your Farm House was enclosed with a good plank fence, an arbor was constructed for t he vineyard and various other improvements which instead of being charged to the account of repair and .improvement are charged to Farm account. , . The same 'system of' keeping a ccounts with the Hilitary of' the college would show that including the salary of fhe Quartermaster it cost the college more than t he Farm, yet nobody complains because its expenses are not thus shown-' by your Treasurers stat ement. But aft er al l the Farm isan expense t o the college , and must continue to be so until it is put upon a widely different basis. ' First, we have not l and enough to work economically i n the ordinary farm crops­no offset this diff icu~ty I tried for one or two years the r aising of such veeetables as are' grown in the ,market and ga r dens near our l ar ge c ities and coulci. find no sufficient demand neither in Auburn or elsewhere for such products . Second, the labor employed on such a farm must be of a higher grade than the ordinary farm labor. The man who does the principal part of the work on t he farm' is paid ~~300 per annum and i f -he vrill keep sober is worth it on any farm . To atte~pt experiments wi t h the ordina ~J labor of the country without an hourly supervision of it would ,be ,the most senseless folly. The college can better afford to pay a competent man $300 t'o do the work neces­sary to be done than it can to pay t wo "f oremen $100 each and then pay me a salary of $2400 to oversee them. Properly conducted experiments are always costly. They do not pay in t he amount of product but they do pay largely in the information they give. I would not ta.\<e a t housand dollars today for what I have learned by experiments upon the college farm if that knowl edge could not be otherwise obtained. The deat h of Professor Ross and 'Professor Thornton r ender necessary the election of at least two new members of the Faculty. As the Chair of Moral Philosophy was that a ssigned to the President in t he -"organizat ion of t he college, and as compe-tent gentl emen can now be found who will cheer f ully accept the position of Professor of Agriculture, I respectfully ask the Board to disconnect the Agricultural chair f rom t he of f ice of President and to r eassign to me t he chair of Moral Philosophy. In addition to suppl yi ng the vacancy in the chair of Natural History, it will in my judgment be necessary to increase the teaching f orce f:orx of the faculty . Wi th the present organizati on of the college classes we have the equival ent of 140 recitations per week in the college proper exclusive of the preparatory department. Our 4th and 3rd classes have become so large in order t o give them eff icient instruction, we are compelled t o divide them and thus double the number of their recitations. Such a division would give us t he equivalent of ten college classes with an average of 4 recitations per day :for each, making 400 recitat ions per week. The University of the St ate with more in her corps of instructors, provides in all her derartments for but 115 recitations per week while t his college even if t he proposed additi ons were given us would have for her 8 instructors 200 recitations per week. As to the specific action w"8ich the Board may t ake in giving us this additional aid t here may be a diversity 'of opinion. -- A 5- It has been suggested t hat the Board create a Chair of EnglisQ Literature f or the ne." Professor . Those Professors who need as.sistance in their department are the Professors of Languages and IvJathematics and whatever the new Professor may be styled, the necessities of the college will f orce him to give aid to those gentlemen . It has been suggested t o me that a Professor of }fechanicalPhilosophy and practical Ilechanics be created and I am inf-orm~d that a member of the Boa rd will probably submit a plan f or this purpose . The eminent success whic)1 is r eported to have_ attended the introduction of this f eature i nto the school of Technology in Boston, a feature modeled after t he Russian schools, woul d seem to entitle it to favorable considerati on at the hands 01' t his Boar d. It is certainly desirable t o give instruction to as many youpg men as possible at least in the r udimental principles of t he mechanic arts . ~ Every En.gineer ought to have skill in the' use of t oos , and every farme,r ought to pe able to repair and in many instances to make the i rnplements used upon the farm. Such a knowledge of machinery as would enable him to know when his implements Here in good order would save i mmensel y in the wear and t ear of such tools upon Em ordinary plantation. Should the plan be submitted I have no doubt the Board Ifill gi ve' it, the consideration i ts merit deserves . The only other met hod of giving the Faculty the needed a i d is t o elect an Instructor for the C olle g~ and to let him be assigned to such duties in the college as may be deemed best. This pl an has the merit of cheapness, a very doubtful one in the . employment of men t o do work in an Inst i t ution like this . As the l aw of t he Board makes it my duty to recommend suitable persons f or the various chairs whenever i t is determined what chairs it is designed to f ill by new appointments, I will be prepared to submit the names of gentlemen qualifj.ed f or the position. The prepari3.t ory department which was organized by the Faculty under permission of t he Board has grown t o such importance as to merit the most favorable consider­ation of t he Boa r d. In my judgment it ought to have at its head a man f ully ~qual to any other in the Faculty. Much of the success of the college depends upon the manner in which boys are trained and prepared in this department and I recorr®end to the Board that the principal of t his Department be elected by the Board and be a full Professor with salary equal t o that of other professprs . Only thus can you secure for this department the services of such a man as vnll fully meet its demands . After f illing the vacant professorships , I wouJ.,d prefer the adoption of thi s suggestion to any other made to increase the teaching f orce of the Fa culty. The mai n question with t he Board will doubtless be can the college sustain thi s a dditional expendit~re. The Faculty or ganized as I propose with a President , six Rrofessors and Instructors for the college proper wi th a salary of $1200 and with a Professor and Assistant in the preparatory department would require $17, 000 . The income of the college may be briefly stated at $22,000 per annum. This would leave for pther purposes a sum of $5, 000 per annum which ought to be sufficient . The report of t he Treasurer shows that the expenses of the college f or the past year have been $24, 000 and of this sum not less than $4, 000 has been f or extra­ordinary expenses . I f we must be stinted in anyt hing let it not be in numbers or the ability of the men who compose the Faculty. We are denied by our scanty means many of those el egancies which other more favored Institutions possess. Our only hope is in competing with them in men who should compose the Faculty of the Institution. In conclusion permit me to .say that t he f uture of the college is f ull of hOPE3 and promise . It has over come obstacl es the most f ormidable and pr ejudices t he most inveterate and unyielding; -".ron its way by its meri ts to the front rank of coll eges i n the South, and considering its , age and its r esources it is of its class the equal of any in t he Union. It is true t hat much is yet t o be accomplished to make it all we could desire, but the same wisdom in i ts Board of ~Bna gement and the same fidelity t o duty on the part of its Faculty 1.rill ca rry it forward in its career of usefulness until all our people will recognize the value of i t s l abors, and unite in promoting its interests . It is true we need many things- more buildings, l arger libraries, great er appli ances of instruction, extensive museunls of Natural History, more extended farming operations where will be found the best specimens of cultivated crops, stocks, fences , buildings, roads, orchards, vineyards , groves , and gr a ss o lots, farm machi nery and all the impl ements of husbandry- b~t in time all of these will come . The gener al Government will some day give us further aid . The State of Al abama to which we a re indebt ed for nothing but a name will one day awake to the f act of our existence and no longer treat her child as an orphan and a stranger. If she does nothing more she will at least comply with the obligations of her trust. and pay to us all the discount we have suffered by receiving her unconcern and funds at par. Some man l i ek Jerrel of Georgia or like Vanderbilt will desire to leave a blessing to posterity and make t his college the channel t hrough which it will be tra.ns­mitted. No college has a nobler mission or gr ander field of usefulness. The results of its l abors will not to any great extent be f elt or reco,gnized by the masses for years t o come , but these results will be permanent as the mountains that are lifted to t he clouds or the streaJlls that f low 0uward to the sea . The connection that is destined t o be made between lea r ning and labor- between the intelligence that plans and the hand that executes" elevating as i t must do the very substratum of human society wi t h all that i s based 'upon it above the degrading and exhausting vassalage of slavish toil h~ll prove the gr andest revoltuion of the lvo.rld. ItSubdue the earthll was the Divine injunction to our first par ents, all its "~lil d and untamed elements of sea and air, al l its mysterious and imponderable yet potent agenci es- all its diversified and un­developed :fauna and f lora of every land and of every clime comes within the scope of the Divine cormnand and i t s accomplishments will be one of i t s highest achievements rendered possi ble to man by his power s and his de stiny •. Much mi sunderstood, long overlooked, wellnigh forgot t.en, the wold is awaking to the fact that thi s sl'bj ection of the physi cal "\"forld to ihis SWA,y is the Divine method of r eli eving it f rom the burden of the curse- thus the mighty movements begun 1.vhi ch ends in t he ful l reali zation of the prophetic 1;.rords that the vlilderness and the solitary places. sh&11 be made glad and the desert re j oice and blossom as the ro se . 1. T. Tichenor, President A. & 1,1. College Al abama In connection with his OviD t he President submitted the following ~eports of Professors : It 7- Report of C orrunandant To the President of the .A & M College of Alabama I have the honor t o submit the accompanying r eport of the Deaprtment of t-iilitary Science and Tactics for the A & M ~ oll e g e of Alabama for the year ending June 26 , 1878. Full r eports made heretofore exhibit the course of i nstruction and the character of the exerc i s es in this Department. I offer a feltl suggestions; the adoption of which will materially benefit t he discipline of the school. I respectfully reco~~ end that the college l imits be fixed at the distance of one mile radius from the center of the college buildings, that all cadets not r esiding at home , be confiDed to such limits . This wil l induce uniformi ty in duti es and enable the Commandant to be cdvised of the impr oper abscn~ e of cadets l'lhich cannot be a scertained now in the case of those boarding at farm houses in t he country and who are necessarily excused f rom work of ,the roll calls. Thi s is a serious evil which I t hink need only to be stated to you in order to be corrected by the adopt i on of the regulation as stated above. The town affords ampl e boarding a ccommodation for three hundred cadets. ::Je have found our: system of discipl ine to work admirabl y with the large in­crease in our number of cadets in the fir st year and we are gr atif ied to report the f act that with so l arge a nwnber of new cadets added to the corps , we have :qot a serious breach of discipl ine during the past year. In a few cases cadets have lef t for home v-Jithout leave, but as the parent or guardian has in BO case comp~lled the cadet to ret urn we attribute such con­duct to lax disc:i.pline at home which had unfitted the boy for the strick dis­ci pl ine of the school. ~ie l oose no~ h in g by eliminat ing such mat erial from our corps of cadets. The state of Alabama, t hr ough his ,i!;xcellency Governor Houston, has promptly supplied the corps with additional arms and accouterments. Very respectfully submitted, R. A. Hardaway, Com!".nandant See Regulation one hundred and eleven (Ill) appended: Cadet Limits Section 111. Cadet limits are comprised within the distance of one mile of college buildi ngs . To be amended as follows: . i Section 111. Cadets limits are comprised within the distance of one mile radius from the center of the college buildings and all cadets shall be confined in the s election of boarding houses t o the above li.rnits . Report of Professor J . T. Dunklin Department of Ancient Languages A &:1:1 Coll ege Auburn, Alabama June 22, 1878 Dr. J. T. Tichenor, President: I submit t he fol lowing report for t he session of H577-?8 . In the course in Latin, Number taught 100. In the course in Gr eek, Nrunber taught 25. The students in t his department are t aught in four classes making fourteen reci­tations in Latin and t wel ve in Greek durine; the week . The method of instruction is by t ransl ation from Latin and Greek authors i nto .En~~lish -and vice versa. These langua~ es are s t l-Jied in their etymology and syntax along i-rith the reading the Latin ani Greek al,~thors, ·the various construc­t i ons explained and illustrated and the corresponding Engl i sh Doter' and composed . As much of the geography, mythology and literature of Latin and Greek are studi ed as the t i me and ci rcumstances allow . In view of the f acts that Hodern Literature is so t i nctured by that of' classic antiquity that the fonner can only be suc­cessfully studi ed and appr eciated by a knowl edge of the latter. '1'0 do the vwrk of this department with t horough efficiency, I need a ssistance. 'I\venty-six recitations or l ectures a week is too much for one instructor to attempt and do the work as it shoul d be done, especial l y so when much of the work is done by written exercises requiring many hours for t hei r pr eparation and correction . I need some additional appl icances in maps and books of reference whi ch woul d add much to the interest and efficiency of my work . I desire the Board to rr~ke a small appropriation to procure this very desirable help . The pr ogress of :ny class during the year has been good--thei r attendance at t he class and orderl y deportment i n r ecitati on have been uniformly good . '1'he aro.ount of Hork required of them can be seen by r eference to catalogue . It is my endeavor to have all this accomplished as fully and thoroughly as the time allowed will permit . But the desire of the t eacher f or t he advan c e ~ent of his classes always outweighs actual results . Respectfully submi t ted, J . T. Dunklin , Pr ofessor of Anci ent Languages Reverend J . 'I' . Tichenor, DD President Auburn , Alaba'1la Sir: A & IV; College Auburn, Alabama June 22, 1878 t the .last meeting of the Board .of Trust ees , the Chair of Natural i:JClenCes, which I had previousl y filled was divid.ed and Professor Thornton called to preside over a par t . _ By a private ar rangement between us he taught l,,'sics , Botany , Geology l eaving to me Chemi stry , Astronomy and ~1ine ralogy . In Chemistry I had t hr ee classes , the 3rd consisting of 51 members which pursued the study of General Chemi st ry, and the 2nd of whi ch pur sued Agr i cultural -< nalysis . In As t ronomy, there were nine students and in t~ineralogy , eight . Hy classes in Che:'nistry met every day, t he other s 3 tirnes a week . After the deat h of Pr ofes­sor Thornton, I took charge and completed the regular classes in Botany and Geology, t he former consisting of 61 members , the latter of eigh,t . I also finished up a German class of 14 members. I have again the pl easure of reporting diligence and progress by the greater part of the young men pursuing the scient i fic department. An increase in interest fo r scientific knowledge is fully attested by the f act, that during t he past year, I have had 7 young men at work in the l aboratory, the most of whom are pursuing t his course in Science . Next year the most of them will . continue t heir wor k and be graduated . I have the pleasure also of inforrnaing you t hat during the past term, the chem­ical department has been. transferred t o t he basement and admirabl y fitted up both for experiments and lectures in r egular chemistry and f or work in analysis. A ~p ringfield gas lnachine f urnishes gas to t wenty- seven work tables . A furnacB r oom has also been f i xed up . I nto the lecture , work, and furnace r oom, streams of viater are conducted through pi pes f r om the reservoir and enamelled sinks pr ovided for each for working purposes . In fact our facilities f or chemical IrJOrk , thanks t o your -cooperation, have been greatly enhanc es. ,The old rooms formerly occupied by me have been also fitted up . The philosophical apparat us deposited .in t he Hest room and cabinet and museum in the ~ast r oom whi l e the center provided with COlLTlter s, seats and desks still remain a s a lecture room for the Professor of Nat ur al History . Al l of which is most respectful ly s ubl~litt e d . 'iJ . C. Stubbs .Pr ofes sor of Chemistry 19- ~10- Report of the Department of Pure fv'J.athernatics Reverend J . T. Tichenor, Pr esident A. & ~-1 College Sir: I have the honor to submit t he foll owing report of the work done in my department during the scholastic year of 1877- 78 . Class 1 st 11 II • 2nd II II fl 3rd 11 II tI " 1st " 11 2nd II Sec. 11 II Sec. 11 Calculus II Spher. . Trigonomet ry Analyti cal Geometry II ll{echanics . Calculus " Analytical Tri gonometry " " Geometry Anal ytical Geometry 4th Al gebra " II II Geometry 4th Al gebra 11 II II II 11 GeoTuetry I rregular Al gebra Commercial Course Arithmetic Bookkeeping Session 1st No . Recit . Per _..:.-.;..;;....,:_C'_,;..,l.;..,a_ss_ Per Sessi on Subj. Total 50 18 No. in 8 2 2 1 1 2 2 1 2 2 2 2 1 2 2 1 2 2 1 & 2 7 7 14 12 12 9 . 38 40 41 l~l 40 34 27 31 31 29 27 6 51 12 48 16 17 i. I 8-6 26 ( " { -" $6 80 49 6�� ';1 1 & 2 40 ' 511. 1 & 2 38 144 68 13 63 48 24 33 36 6 24 112 49 116 81 135 99 161 165 66 Total Recitations in this Department . 1 95 902 The whole nwnber of cadets in this Depar tment during t he year is 166. The foregoing table gives the . exact nwnber of recitations and class exercises as shovm by my re­cord book . Ninty- three weeks are devoted to this work exclusive of examinations . It will be seen that I have had 28 recitations per vleek or 5 3/5 r ecitations per week giving me but 2 vacant hours in the week . I would respectfully suggest in view of this heavy ,<{ork .that I be r elieved of the COIIll!lercial ourse which now occupies nearly .one-fourth of my t ime . The classes have made very satisfactory pr ogr ess and thei r deportment in the class r oom excellent . VerJ r espectfully , o. D. Smith Professor of Eathematics 11- 11- Regular Proceedings- P. On motion of Kr . Barnes the r eport of t h e. Presiuent li,e on ,the table until further order of t he Board . The Trea surer beint; called on read and subrr}it~te d his report, vice; : Tr easurer ' s. Office A & H Coll ege . Aum:;j.n , . Alabama June 15, 1878 To the Honor able Boa rd of Trustees Gentlemen: ' I have tl;1e honor to pr esent to you herewit h a statement of the financial t r ans­actions of t his Office for the year ending June 15 , 1878 . Receipts' . To State Tr easurer, alc $21, 210 .00 II Incidental " 1, 730 . 00 1I Surgeon " 845 .00. 1I Farrn II 283 .76 II Rent of Land It 47 .70 1I Balance II 6 89 . ~1 i5f, 24 , 805.87 ,Disb:ursements By amount paid t o balance 90 .20 " II II II 2, 91C.71 II II II II ':':;xpense 1, 204 . 93 II " II II Printing 298 .75 " II II " Fixtures 756 .03 II II II II Stationery 47.65 II II Fixtures 157 . 97 " II Appar atus 117 .18 II II Chemi cal 60 .00 II II Pr inting 8 .• 25 II 11 Fa,rrn 7 .80 385.44 By amount paid to Apparatus alc 34 .24 187 .77 II II II Int . and Discount 922 . 56 II II 11 338 .08 " " II Tru.stees al c 200 . 95 II II II Salary alc 14,343 .29 II II II Farm alc 506 .88 " II 11 Insurance alc 412 .61 " " 11 Chemical alc 100 .39 11 II II Surgeon alc 845 .00 1I 11 II Incidental ale 105 .00 11 11 II Advertising alc 538 .00 11 11 11 Commission alc 611 .13 $24, 805.87 All of which is most respectfully submitted . E. . T. Glenn, Tr easurer Liabilities $ 3,313 .25 1,258 .00 689 .41 1,000 .00 $11,260 . 66 Assets-Amt • . due from ;3tock Tr eas. - 4,140.00 $1,120 .66 Due -Faculty on Discount II II II Salary " II " Overdraw II Bills Payable Estimated Aubur n , Alabama June 24, 1878 Addenda to Li abilities Due on East Alabama College cl aims To -Prof es sor J . T. Dunklin " " A. Flogg " II vi. C. Stubbs Regular Proceedings: $43 9.11 130 . 50 166.12 $735 .33 Res pectfull y submitted, B. T. GJenn , Tr ea surer - - On motion of ~(r . Barnes , the report of the Tr easurer lie on the t able . The r eport of the Resident COll1IIlittee on t he Books , .Vouchers , etc. was r ead and submitted . To the Board of Tr ustees of the A & £.;1 Col lege of Alabama Gentlemen : A & fir College of AlabaIua - June 17, 1878 Your committee t o whom was referred and a ss.igned the dut y of examining t he books, voucher s , etc . of the 'l'reasur er of the Coll ege ask l eave t o r eport a s ' fol l ows : 1st They have examined t he general expense account ana f ind that t he items entered and charged on the books· correspond wit h vouchers appr oved and en­dorsed by the Pr esident and the Acting President of t he Col lege . 2nd They have examined the Bank, accolli"lt and f ind that t o correspond ,.r1th t he pass book of the Banking Houses .Ln which the Treasurer' has made deposits . 3r d That the T1Masurer has ex."libited t o us a statement of receipts f rom dif­f erent sources and di sbur sements. made by him for the fiscal year endi ng June 15 ·of this i nstitute and f i nd t hat they cor r espond . Respectful l y submi tted , H. C. Dowdell F' . ilL Reese j't- -13- Regular Proceedi ngs: On motion of 1r . Harral s on , t he comrmmicati on of the Trustees of the Auburn Female College be refer red to committee on Course of St udy . Adopt .ed . On Notion of Hr . 3arnes , the r eport of the Treasurer and resident committee be r eferred to the cOT.!l11.ittee on Financ e . Adopted . On motion of lVIr . Harralson that p rti on of the Presidents r eport in ref er rence to the c reation of additional profe s sorships and t he fin~n c ial condition of the College be r eferred to the committ ee on Fi nanc e . Adopted . On motion of I~r . Bar nes . AIL additi onal committee t o "rit a committee on Agri­c ul tu~ e be created and t hat certain 'portions of tIle President' s report be re­ferr ed to sai d committee whi ch when named shall be a standing commi ttee. A­dopted . A c ommunication f rom Er . Davi.d T. Blakely having been r ead t he s ame was on motion of l'~r . Ha rralson referred to the committee on Financ e . At the sugge stion of the Presi dent of the Board , an adj ournment unt i l 3 o 'clock was order ed . The Board met a c cor ding ' t o ad journment and t her e 1,vere present: the Pr esident and :tessers . Bar nes , Bi bb , Box, Dowdell, Harr alson , Langdon , Malone , tjloren, St ans el . Absent, ~r . Lawler . communication t o wi t , t he report df the Comrnandant to t he Pr esident of t he Col ­lege was read and on motion of Hr . Ha r ralson was r ef erred t o t he committee on t he Revision of Laws . The r epor ts of the Faculty to the Fresident of the Collegi3 wer e r eferred to com­mitt ee on Fi nanc e . 'l'he President designat ed the follo'l'ling commit tee on Agricultu re , to vIit, I'1essers . Lor en, Dowdell, ~lone , Langdon and St ansel. On motion of t Ir . Ba r nes , Hr . Harralson was a dded t o t he commi t t ee on F,i nance and at the suggestion of the Presi dent , fiT . Bi bb was a l so added to the Finane e C ommi t tee . On motion the Board adjourned unt.i l 9 0 I clock tomorrow. 14- Auburn , Al abama June 25, 1878 The Board met a ccording to adjour nment and ther.e were pr esent the President and Messers . Barnes , Bi bb , Box, Dowdel l , Haralson , Langdon , Lawler, f',al one , Noren and Stansel . The committee on Finance submitt.ed the fol.lowing repor t , viz: The cOllli"aittee on Finance to whom was referred that por tion of the president ' s re­port which relates to the or ganization of the Coll ege , repor t and recormnend as follows: 1st That a profes sor of Agr iculture be elected . . 2nd That the President of the College be made professor of Hor al Philosophy . 3rd That the duties of the chair of 3nglish Lit erature be divided between the Pr esident and the professor of Agricult ur e . 4th That a Principal of the Preparatory Department be elected with the rank and pay of a professor and that a tutor in this p epa rtmen~ be also elected by this Board as a~ as sist~nt of the professor with a sala0T of $ 7~O . OO . 5th That a profes sor of Natural History be elected . Stansel On reCOllUJlend.ation of the President of the College degrees be conferred on t he 1'01- 1.0"ring nam,ed gentlemen graduates of the Coller,e : Lemuel Gulliver Daunn, Bachelor of Engineering ~ ilas Charles · Dowdel l , Bachelor of Science Tucker Hender son Frazer, Bachel or of Engi ne,ering Robert li:arly Hardaway, II II " I saac l exander Lanier, II " II ,, ;,- Beorge ·.Ht.mlbep.:"Pr.i Ct:e , II II II Lee Stark Schieffelin , II II " Reuben Loxla Thornton, II II II On reCOIl .,endation of the President of ,t he College ful l pay be allo"zed the tv.ro deceased professors , B. B. _'oss and E. A. Thornton, whi ch on motion of !Vir. Bibb was adopt ed . On motion of -:r . Haralson, hr . Bar cl ay havi ng failed to be pres ent, Dr. Tichenor be requested to del iver th~ Agr i cultural address . On lllotion the Board adjour ned. unt il 3 o ' clock P. H. The Board met according to adjournment and t her e were pres ent: the Pr esident and :t1esser s . Barnes , Bibb , Box, Dowdell , Haralson, Langdon , Lawler, "4alone, Horen and Stansel . Report of committee on Course of Study . The committee t o whom was referred the communication of the Trustees of the Auburn Female Coll ege, have had the same under consideration and report the suggestions and propositions t herein expedient at pr esent . Langdon . It 15- Report of Cormn.ittee on Finance Hr . President: The Co ilInittee on Finance further report: 1st That the office of .~uarte r Haster be abolished and that the duties of that office so far as pertai ns t o. department , be devolved on the Commandant and t he other duties of the office on the President of the Col l ege . ?~d Tha~ t he appropriation for the contingent expenses of the College which shall i ncl ude all expenses outside of salaries of offices be limited to the sum of $3000 .00 3rd That a chair of Hechanics be established and t hat a professor be elected thereto who shall be r equired to perform such other duties as the Faculty may a ssign to him . 4th 'l'hat the Secret.ary 1s salary be reduced to ""150 . Stansel The report was vot ed on by s ections: 1st Section Yeas 5 Nays 3 2nd Section Agr eed t o 3rd Section Agreed to 4th Section Yeas 5 Nays 4 On motion of Hr . Bibb , the salaries of the professors to be elected commence on the last \:v ednesday of September next . Adopted . 1r . Stansel offered the f ollowing resolution , RESOLVED , That the S oard does not recognise an;y obligation to pay the claims predicated upon Discount of Alabama State obligations her etofore used by the College in payment of its officers . On motion of Hr . Box , the consider ation of the r esolution was postponed until to­norrow mor ning , 9 0 I clock . On motion the Board a djour,ned until .tomorrow, 9 0 1 clock A. t i . I Auburn, Alabama June 26, 1878 The Board met a cc or di ng to ad journment and there were present: t he Pr esident and He ssers . Ba r nes, Bi b b, Box, Dowdell, : aral s on, Langdon , Lawler, Malone , horen and Stan s el . Mr . Box moved t o amend the resolut ion i ntroduced by l'~r . Stan'sel on yesterday in ref­erence t o a sentenc ~ of t he Board in not recognizing t he obl i gation t o pay to pro­f e s s ors and of ficers of Col l ege di s count on State obl i gations by insert ing the ,vork Il does" in lieu of "does not ll before t he w_ord r ecognise . Not adopted . The que s t i on comi ng up on t he r e s ol uti on of Er. Stansel and a division bei ng called for , the Yeas wer e 4, l-ays b . Those voting Yea Here ~JLesse r s . Langdon , Lawl er , l'~oren and St an s el . Those voting Nay were Eessers . Barnes, Bibb , Bos" Dowdell , Haralson , and Ealon e . i ' A cOinraunica tion from the Pr esident of the College \va s rec eived and read , t o "lit: I To His Exc ellency Governor Houston Pr esi dent of t he Board of Trustees Sir : Auburn, Alabama June 25 , 1878 A & M College I hereby recornmend t o t he Board Colon el ~'Jilliam H. Chambers f or t he Profes sorship of Agr i culture, P . H. -liell for t he Pr ofessorshi p of l'atural History, Colonel D~ .T. Bl a key for the Professorship of Hechani cs, Reverend G. 1,'1 . l'~axson fo r t he Princi­pal of ,the Preparatory Depa rtment , and C. L. Thach for as s ist ant in the Prepara­tory Departrrlent. • e s pe ctfully su,bmi tted, J . T. Tichenor, President On moti on of Hr . Lawler, the comrrmn i cat i on of the Pr esident of the Coll ege was l a i d on the tabl e . J,lr . Barnes i ntroduced the f ollowing resolution , RESOL'llED, by t he Board of Trust ees of the A & 1~ College , t hat it is t he opi ni on of t his Boar d consi dering t he na ture and char a cter of the onati cn of Congr e ss and t he endo"li!1ent of t he said College by t he Unit ed St ates Gove r nment t hat t he St ate should rnake up the discount owed on t he State obl i gations r eceived in payment of its int erests on the State bonds . I'll' . iVlO r en moved t o insert the Hord "not II between t he words should and make in t he r e s ol ution . Not adopted . The re s ol ution of h r . Ba r nes coming up and a division bei ng called the Yeas wer e 7 and l\ays 3 . -1\ -- 17- Those voting Yea were Hessers. Barnes, Bibb, Dowdell, Haralson, Langdon, :J.alQne and Stansel. Those voting Nay were Nessers . Box Lawler and Noren . On reassembline of the Board, Hr. Haralson submitted the following r e,.;ort: R0.::>OLV~D , That Section 111, one hundred and eleven, of - regulations be amended to, read as follOl,",s: Cadet l imits are compr ised withi n one mi.l e r ap-ius from t he center ,of t he College buil di ngs and all cadets in selecting boa r di ng. houses shall be conf,ined to the prescribed limits . The Corruuittee on the Revision of Laws to whom was refer r ed the r eport of the Com­mandant recom'Tlend the adoption of the r esolution amending Section 111 of rules of discipline and police. The r eport was adopted . On motion of £·:r. Lawler the degree of Ph . D. was conferr -::d on Pr ofessor -if! . C. Richa rdson of the ci ty and county of 'fuscaloosa, Alabama. On motion of }'Ir . Bibb, t he degr ee of 1) .D. was conferred on Reverend Jou OLe L. l":'ills of the city and county of Hont?;omery, Alabama. On moti on of Hr . St ansel, the degree of L.L.B. be conferred on .Jno . H. £.1artin, of t he city and county of Tuscaloosa, Alabama . The committee on Finance to whom was referred the report of the Treasurer and the r eport of t he Local Examining Committee on the same beg leave to r eport t hem ba ck and r ecommend t heir adoption by the Boa rd . (Adopted. ) On motion of hr. Stansel the degree of D. ]) . be confer r ed on 1·: . C. Hearne of Hunts­ville, Alabama Hr. Bibb moved to r econsider so much of the repor t of the Finance Committee as re­lates t o the establishment of the chair of Nechanics . The motion was adopted and on moti on of Jv.r. -1alone that portion of the r eport of the Committee in r efer ence t o the establishment of a chair of ~ e c h anics be post poned until the next !!leeting of t he Board . Adopt ed . A division being called, the Yeas were 5, Nays 3. Those voting Aye were Hessers . Bibb, Box, Dowdel l, Haralson, and 1alone. Nays, Messers Langdon, 'loren , and Stansel . Nominations being in order , Hr . Ii,alone put in nomination William H. Charnbers for the chair df Agriculture . On moti on , }.r . Chambers was elected by acclamation . hr . IiV _' r . Barnes put i n nomination the name of hr . Grote for the chair of Eatural History . Dowdell the name of F . J . Hot t and Mr. Lawler the name of P. H. £'lell, Jr . A vote being taken On 1st Ballot Gr ote 1 Hott 5 M:ell 4 2nd Ballot j\~o t t Nell 4 6 Er. rilell was decla-red elected to the chair of N9-tural History . " A 18- For Principal of P r~pa ratory Department . rv:r. halone nominated \ir. Casey fJir . Dowdell II ir. Banks tl r . Barnes II Er. Lockett Hr. Barnes 11 :D r . Pinckard Mr . Haralson II Dr . Avery Hr . Langdon II Mr. IvIaxson 1st Ballot: 2nd Ballot: Pinkard 1 haxson 3 Banks 1 Lockett 5 Eaxson 1 Casey 2 Ca-sey, 1 Avery 1 Lockett 5 3nd Ballot: 4th'Ball(rjt. l~son 3· Maxson -4 Lockett r- :/ Lockett . 4 Casey 2 Casey 1 Pinckard 1 5th Ballot 6th Ballot IVtaxson 4 l'1axson 4 Lockett 4 Lockett 4 Casey 1 Casey 2 Banks 1 7th Ballot 8th Ballot iVlaxson 4 l-ia'Xson 4 Lockett 4 Lockett 5 Banks 2 Casey 1 9th Ballot 10th Ballot 1-1axson 4 Haxson 4 Lockett 5 Lockett 5 Casey 1 Pinckard 1 11th Ballot 12th Ballot Pinckard 3 Pinckard 4 Lockett 5 haxson 4 Ir-axson 2 Lockett 2 13th Ballot 14th Ballot 15t h Ballot Pinckard 4 Haxson 5 IViaxson 6 Haxson 4 Pinckard 5 Pinckard 4 Lockett 2 J -If 19- Mr. Maxson having received a majority of the votes was declared elected to the place of Principal of the Preparatory Department . For a.ssistant i n Preparatory Department, 1r . Halone nominated Hr . C. E. Thach . l:~r . Bibb nominated l'lr • .s. R. Rivers . The vote being taken, Hr. Thanh received 7 votes, Hr . Rivers rec eived 3 votes. Hr . 'Thach was declared elected as assistant in Preparatory Department . R.2:::JOLV:C1J, . That the Faculty may employ an assistant to di scharge such duties as may be assigned him by the Fa culty at a salary not to exceed ($600) six hundred dollar s provided his services a r e necessary . Adopted . Report of Committee on Finance: The Cormnittee on Finance report that they have caref ully examined the r eport of the Treasurer and fLnd his account neatly and accur a t el y kept -and supported by pr oper vouchers . The election of of ficers bei ng in order, hr . Moren moved t hat Er. E •. T. Glenn be unanimously el ected Treasurer; the motion was carried. On motion of Flr . }_oren the salary of t he Treasurer be $700 in lieu of commissions . Hr . Box moved to reconsi der t he action of the Board r educing the salary of the Secret ary to the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars ($l5Q) . The section of the r eport of the Fi nance Committee whi ch r ecolnmended a r eduction of the salary of the Secretary to ~1 50 , coming us under the- r esolution to r econ­sider . The said section -was defeated and t he salary restor ed to the original amount , viz, $250 . 00 . On motion the Board adjourned F. lvl . Reece Secretary to Board of Trustees of A & 11 College of Alabama