MINUTES OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES, Jun-5, 1906 Page S3 (contid)



     1901. Ninety acres added to the Experiment Farm, making
203 in all. The building erected contained the Gymnasium, the
Drill Room~the Halls for the Societies and the Y. M. 0. A.


     1901. The Department of Mining Engineering added.


     1902. Thirty thousand dollars additional appropriated by
the General Assembly for the Young Woman's College Home, making
$60,000 in all.


    1904. Patterson Hall, the Young Woman's College Home, completed.


    1904. Fifteen thousand dollars per annum appropriated by
the General Assembly to defray the exDended of the College.


    1905.  The New Experiment Station completed.


    Increase of Property:- The property of the College is esti-
mated to be worth $800,000 more than it was 180.


     Increase in Courses:- Before 180 the college offered a sin-
gle course of study leading to a degree; it now"has nine.


     Increase of Teachers:- Before lS0 the College had six
Professors; it now has seventeen Professors and thirty-two
assistants.

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     Increase of Students:- The number enrolled during the
session of l198-99 was about 4So, considerably the largest till
then in the history of the College; for 1899-1900 the number
was 563; for 1900-1901 it was 614; for 1901-1902 it was 594;
for 1903-1904 it was 732.


     Increase of Graduates:- No fact more distinctly marks the
growth of the college than the increase in the number 6f its
graduates. More students have been graduated during the last
three years than were graduated during the first thirty.