The donor of fifty dollars or more will be required to allow his name to be used in connection with the gift in University reports. By the Divine blessing no serious illness or death has occurred in the B o a r d of T r u s t e s , faculty or student body. B a b c o c k , of the D e p a r t m e n t of Physics and Chemistry, elected last year, is the only new professor in the faculty.
R o g e r s was made assistant to the president in the departments of Philosophy and Education has been a most valuable contribution to the university's teaching force. In connection with the Hundred Thousand Dollars and Hundred Dollars he has collected by personal solicitation over $[300, most of which is in one dollar subscriptions. It is also the intention to send out an announcement about the school and the courses as soon as possible.
In the establishment of this school, Alfred University has entered a new field of utility, and the State has in a significant way recognized the merits of the University. With deep gratitude for the year's blessings and prosperity, this report is respectfully submitted.
REGISTRAR'S REPORT
Reports We have decided to provide an instructor in graphics and fine arts and an assistant director to operate the machines and assist in the laboratory. The year was most successful; seems to me to be the best of the five years I have now served at the university. There were two students in the theological department, one taking a full-time course and one special one doing part-time work.
The following table shows the number of classes in each department of the College, the number of recitation hours per week, and the number of students taught during each semester.
EXPENSES FOR TEN YEARS
TREASURER'S REPORT
BUDGET FOR 1900-190 J
00 Seventh-day Baptist Church of Plainfield 6 00
00 Professorship of Natural History 10 00
REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN
The reading room has been regularly supplied with around 60 periodicals, some of which have been kindly contributed by the publishers. Gifts of money and magazines"; are given by faculty members and others.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF GIFTS
F o r the maintenance for one year of said state school of clay-working and ceramics, the sum of five thousand
This year 27 has been received from his executor; $73 was reported last year; All this has been added to the General Endo w m e n t F u n d. In 1897 a list was published of the subscriptions for the construction of this building, which then amounted to. Since then, tenders have been received totaling nst °f, as shown below.
An acknowledgment of book donations is detailed in the Librarian's Report, which can be found on another page of these reports. R O G E R S of Providence, Rhode Island, presented to the university on alumni day of C o m e n c e m e n t week an excellent oil painting by his father, the late Professor William A. It hangs in the conference room of K e n y o n Memorial Hall, where a collection of portraits of prominent pro -.
It is the work of the distinguished artist Hugo Brent and is one of his best paintings.
ELEVATION OF
PETER WOODEN FUND
ENDOWMENT AND PROPERTY
DEGREES CONFERRED
ALFRED ACADEMY
SCHOLARSHIPS
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LUA BABCOCK FUND
The map has been changed to reflect the land recently purchased for the site of the School of Clay Working and Ceramics. A standing committee was established, called the Buildings and Grounds Committee, which was charged with spending the income from this fund. The main line and some branches from another system have been constructed to drain the north side of the Campus.
The latter main line begins on the far east side of campus, above the Allen Steinheim Museum, and runs west down the hill to the creek, past the museum, K e n y o n Memorial Hall, and B a b c o c k Hall of Physics. The water in the well rises up to thirty-one meters above the ground and provides an abundance of water of excellent quality. About three-quarters of the year one man is constantly employed in the routine work of keeping the grounds in order, and in superintending the improvements as they are in progress.
A large part of the cost of the improvements is for the work, a significant part of which is performed by the students. B a b c o c k ' s b o u n t y is not limited to the direct and immediate benefits reflected in well-kept, beautiful lawns and flowers; h a n d s o m e, well-cut trees; and p e r m a n e n t i m p r o v e m e n t s; but, incidentally, it helps deserving students by offering them an opportunity to work and thus pay a portion of the cost of their education. Dealing with the older parts of the Campus, I would admit that such forms of fieldwork as can be maintained without prejudice to the new plan will receive due consideration.
In the plan for the alteration and improvement of the Campus I am governed by one special object, viz.: To preserve as far as possible all the finer features introduced by the late President Allen, especially the best trees, which he so loved. In dealing with the improvement of the site the first and most important consideration is that of drainage. In fact, almost all the grading can be done this way where the distance is short, instead of using t e a m s which do more harm than good where ornamental trees a b o u n d .
I n a s m u c h as there are now some fine trees growing on the edge of this walk, I have left it; but in this case the passage must be lowered to the surface of the earth. L a n d s k a p e Gardening is now classified with the fine arts and is taught as such at some of the high schools abroad. What is now required is that new and selectable species and varieties should be added, and if there are many of the same kind, they should be reduced in number.
COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS
SEVENTH-DAY BAPTIST EDUCATION SOCIETY
BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE SEVENTH-DAY BAPTIST MEMORIAL FUND
If there shall be sufficient income from the fund, I direct and direct that a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars of income be paid as a casual offering to assist young people (male or female) in preparing for the Gospel ministry in the Seventh Day Baptist denomination. This society includes all graduates of the university, all persons who have graduated from it, members of the faculty and former students who have attended it for one year or more. The aims of the society are to promote fraternal fellowship and sympathy and the interest of its members in their Alma Mater, as well as to promote the welfare of Alfred University.
Cash pledges or contributions are requested, duly recognized and added to the fund. The income from the fund is used partly to defray the costs arising from an annual course of lectures at the university, and partly to assist in the payment of the president's salary. The Association is represented on the University's Board of T r u s t e s by nine trustees, three of whom are elected each year for a three-year term. He served three years in the Union army, during the War of the Rebellion, successively attaining the rank of Captain and Major.
He has prepared and delivered many speeches on a variety of subjects, and is well known as a public speaker of marked ability, for many years he was a trustee of the University. It was mainly through his efforts that the Alumni Association undertook the work of raising this fund, to which he contributed the sum of $1,000 as a nucleus. His recent contribution of $2,000 shows his undeniable interest in the fund and his zeal for the welfare of the institution.
The names of graduates from the university are followed by the year of graduation; the names of students who have not graduated before the student year in parentheses.
COLLEGES
ACADEMIES j t
CHARLES POTTER
Attempting to sell the presses, another of original character, invented by Merwin Davis, of Brooklyn, was offered to him on proper terms like those of the B a b c o c k s. Potter sold the presses he had in stock and retired from that part of the business, rather than risk his capital in patent litigation. The results of the information thus obtained he embodied in his machinery, and his presses soon gained a position at the head of this class of machinery.
As much of his trade was in the South, the outbreak of the Civil War brought great business upheavals, and he lost all that he had accumulated. Nor did accidents come singly, for in April, 1863, while in the office of the Portland Press, Maine, he fell, causing his left leg to be amputated above the ankle. When not active in politics he took a keen interest in the material affairs of the town and served two terms as a member of the common council.
He was a lifelong member of the Seventh-day Baptist Missionary Society, and a worker in all its departments. Potter and H u b b a r d united to place a missionary on that field, who labored there for two years, paying all the expenses. Community and fellowship were revived; the bonds of denominational unity were s t r e n g t h e n - ed ; and vigorous churches and a flourishing college bear eloquent t e s t i m o n y to the efficacy of the work.
Potter brought with him the characteristics of foresight, strong faith and a broad understanding of the situation. He fully realized the greater and deeper meaning of S a b b a th R e f o r m; his faith in the cause was boundless; and he enthusiastically supported all larger plans for the work of the Society with generous and frequent donations. Potter was one of the charter members of the Board of Directors and its first chairman, a position he held until his death.
All the schools fostered by the denomination of Seventh Day Baptists are the better for his interest in them, his sympathy and his assistance. The motive that inspired the gift is due as much to patriotism as to the good judgment of the donor; it was announced in a remark by Mr. Potter on other liberal gifts; the latter of which is mentioned in the Report of the Alumni Association, page 59, supra.
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