Julia Maria R o g e r s P o w e r s, who left a bequest of five hundred dollars to Alfred University, was a sister of the late Prof. The President has been absent much of the time during the year, in the interests of the University. This work was largely done at the request of the state regulator of institutes and the various institute leaders.
It is thoroughly equipped with clay-working machinery and is now occupied by the instructors of the school. T h e first Annual Report of the N e w Y o r k State School for Clay - W o r k i n g and Ceramics, made by the Director to the President, and presented by him to the Governor, is attached to this report. S o m e w e e k s since then, the attention of the members of this B o a r d w a s , through a letter from the President, has been drawn to the question of finances, and the necessity of such an economy in management for the future which will provide a freedom from further deficit will ensure
The Treasurer has also received notice that $663 has been received by the Education Society, from the estate of the late Phineas C.
REGISTRAR'S REPORT
The year's work, as shown by the average percentages earned by students in different classes, is very gratifying. There were relatively few failures to complete attempted work and most students achieved grades that demonstrate thorough and conscientious work. Bachelor of Bachelor of Bachelor of Bachelor of Bachelor of Bachelor of Bachelor of Bachelor of.
REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN
During the year, we added valuable periodicals in the reading room and took care of preparation for more comfortable use and better preservation of the periodicals. The participation was very good, with 156 students registered, which is an increase of more than 30% compared to last year's registration. There are nine M graduates this year; and the outlook is good for next year's much larger class, as noticeable progress is being made toward the systematic implementation of the regular prescribed programs of study.
It is now too early to say how many of the m e m b e r s will be successful in obtaining certificates, but we expect a good percentage to have passed. We have the appointment to teach a class next year, which, in view of the fact that there has been a great reduction in the number of classes in the State, speaks well of the work we have done.
ACADEMY REPORT
The necessary equipment of the laboratory was carefully considered, and machinery was ordered for the making of brick, roof tiles, hollow blocks, roof tiles, etc., and for the manufacture of pottery. The machinery for the production of brick, tiles, drainage tiles and hollow blocks consists of a one and a half meter long dry pan for crushing and disintegrating, a horizontal open pug mill for mixing the clay or shale with water, a brick machine for crushing the clay or shale with water, a brick machine to take the moist clay and press it into a shaped column, a cutting table where the column is divided into the correct size brick or tile, along with a hand-operated screw press for making tiles or repressing brick. The pottery machinery consists of a special installation of three machines for the preparation of white clay, a vertical mop mill for compressing the prepared clay, a potter's wheel, a mold and a lathe for shaping wares, a pair of grinding cylinders for the preparation of glazes , and a set of small blungers and grinders for small mixings in an experimental manner.
The preparation and distribution of a notice or circular for the school occupied my attention for some time during the summer. A 16-page booklet has been printed in which information is given about the school's equipment, the courses on offer and the requirements for access. On completion of the prescribed study programme, the student will receive the degree Bachelor of Science in Ceramics.
The liberality of the State in providing and maintaining such a school is no stronger proof of its generous support of education than its far-sighted economic and industrial sense. The technical education of her own young men for the practical development of the vast resources of clay with which New York is so rich will in time enable her to supply her own needs and to offer the world a large share of these important commodities.
TREASURER'S REPORT
INCOME
ENDOWMENT
First Seventh Day Baptist Church of Alfred 66 50 T e Ladies of Alfred 86 75 Seventh Day Baptist Church of Shiloh and.
Hull Professorship of Pastoral Theology : Bond and Mortgages
150 00 Professorship of Church History and Homiletics 10 00 Plainfield Professorship of Doctrinal Theology 400 00 Rhode Island Professorship of Mathematics 500 00 Kenyon Memorial Fund 10 00 One Thousand Dollar Scholarships. First Seventh Day Baptist Church Alfred 15 00 Alfred Baptist Church 50 00 Shiloh Seventh Day Baptist Church and Society 12 50 Seventh Day Baptist Church Plainfield 10 00 First Seventh Day Baptist Church New York.
One Thousand Dollar Scholarships
With some appreciation of the value of Alfred University, and a desire to use from our limited accumulations a part of it in the surest way for good work, we present you with a check for $1,000. This establishment is made in accordance with the rules of the University and shall be designated for all time in its records as.
Bequest
Gifts to the Library
Gifts to the Museum
T he income was allocated by the University to support the Chair of Mathematics. The amount to be obtained from this source has not yet been determined, but it is expected that the University will realize at least $20,000.
SUMMARY
PETER WOODEN ESTATE
PETER WOODEN FUND
Emile Babcock, Jackson Centre, O
Roy Brainard, Dalton Otis Brainard, Dalton
Sibley, has recently prepared and published a very important Chinese- English Dictionary
Davis was educated in the public schools of West Virginia, in the West Virginia State Normal School, in Alfred University, from which he graduated in 1890 with the degree of A. Davis was for two years pastor of the First Seventh Day Baptist Church of Alfred. After graduating from Concordia, he attended lecture courses at the universities of Berlin and.
After returning to America, he was appointed teacher of theory and lecturer in the history of music at the Cincinnati College of Music, then under Theodore Thomas. He is also the author of programs for the Chicago Orchestra, of which he was an assistant. He has recently published, at the request of Scribners Sons, a comprehensive work on Choir and Choral Music, which has attracted much favorable comment and has given its author a high place in the musical world.
Binns is a native of Worcester, England and received his early education at Worcester Cathedral King's School and from private tutors. During twenty-five years he directed various branches of the manufacture and became familiar with every detail of the work. Binns was called to the position of Director of the New York State School of Clay and Pottery.
After leaving Cornell he began his educational work as principal of the New Berlin Academy. After a successful experience of eleven years as principal in this Academy and in other academies and high schools of the State, he was appointed in 1888, Professor of Natural Science in the Buffalo State Normal School, which position he still holds. more efficiently. The bishop has been a teacher of Geology and Science in various summer schools, and, with the exception of one year abroad on vacation, he has been an instructor in science at the Chautauqua Summer Institute since its organization.
He has done a lot of work as a lecturer and has done institute work in teacher training institutions, both as an instructor and as a conductor for the last 14 years. Bishop's principal publications are: Report on the Salt Fields of Western New York, Geology of Erie County, New York; Petroleum and Natural Gas in Western New York; and the Niagara Red Book.
ALFRED ACADEMY
In general, we heartily recommend that the administrators of the University should make early and serious efforts to strengthen the educational power of that department, and that our people should support it loyally and generously. That at least two professors, one in Theology and one in Biblical Interpretation, will be employed, but with an additional professor in History, if found practicable - who will devote their time to the work and interests of the department. That the work of these professors be supplemented by the deployment of non-resident faculty on topics that are in line with the general objective of the department.
We commend to the favorable consideration of the Board of the Education Association the plan of securing individual and systematic subscriptions from our people for the benefit of the department, somewhat after the method adopted by the Board of Missions. Consul to China; 1877-88, Librarian of the Scientific Library of the Patent Office, publishes two complete catalogs of the Library, also 1878-83, Chairman of the B o a r d of U. Bureau of Education, also preparing the special report on libraries of the United States and Canada; 1896, Secretary of the Anthropological Society, and also Secretary of the A m e r i c a n Statistical Society, W a s h i n g t o n , D.
This Society includes all graduates of the University, all persons who have received degrees from it, members of the F a c u l t y , and former students who have attended for one year or more. T h e aims of the Society are to promote fraternal fellowship and sympathy, and the interest of its m e m b e r s in their Al m a Mater, as well as to promote the welfare of Alfred University. At the time of its organization in 1886, the Society established a perpetual fund for the benefit of the University, giving it the name of the K E N Y O N - A L L E N E N D O W M E N T F U N D .
T he Society took a form of pledge to pay, for the benefit of the fund, one dollar a month for five years; and a considerable sum has already been secured in this way. The income of the fund is used partly to cover the expenses in connection with a lecture course annually before the University, and partly to help pay the salary of the President. T h e Society is represented on the Management of T r u s t e s of the University by nine trustees, three of whom are elected each year for a term of three years.
F o r the maintenance for one year of said state school of clay-working and ceramics, the sum of five thousand
