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Report of the Dean of the College of Physicians and Surgeons ... 63 Admission to Advanced Standing—Hospital Conditions—Clinical Clerks—Length of the Course—Combined College and Medical Courses—Changes in Staff and Organization Sanitary Science and Public Health—Cancer Research—The Programme of Studies—Thera- peutics—Enlarged Work of Vanderbilt Clinic —Research—Attendance—The Alumni. Report of the Dean of the Schools of Mines, Engineering and Chemistry . yy Registration — Faculty Advisers — Sanitary Engineering — Forest Engineering — Agri- culture—Research—Additional Lectures. Report of the Acting Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts ...... 85 School of Architecture—Instruction Scholar- ships—School of Music—School of Design. Report of the Dean of the Faculties of Po- litical Science, Philosophy and Pure Science ...... 89 Organization—Matriculation and Registration —Administration—Educational Waste—Mas- ter's Degree—Summer Session—English for Foreigners. — CONTENTS V PAGE Report of the Acting Dean of Barnard College 96 Registration—Faculty Changes—Brooks Hall —Needs—Gifts—Committee on Instruction. Report of the Dean of Teachers College . loi Enrollment—Faculty—Legislation—Leave of Absence—Teachers' Retirement Fund—Curric- ulum—School Playground—Whittier Hall Bryson Library—Educational Museum Bureau of Publication—Appointment Com- mittee—Financial Report. Report of the Dean of the College of Pharmacy . .114 The Brown Bill—By-Laws of the College The Profession of Pharmacy—University Class—Library and Museums—Food and Drugs Course—Additional Expenses—Need of Assistance. Report of the Director of the Summer Session 119 Calendar — Statistical — Graduate Courses — Music—Excursions, Receptions and Chapel Services—Purposes of the Summer Session Additional Courses Recommended—Courses in Medicine. Report of the Director of Extension Teaching 128 Summary of Instruction in 1908-09—Transfer of work of Extension Teaching to Teachers College—The Evening Technical Courses Class-Rooms—Froebel, League Lectureship Publications, 1908-09—Extension of Musical Instruction—Extension of Instruction to Courses in Commerce—Extension of English Instruction—Permanent Instructorships by Joint Appointment—Revision of the Credit for Extension Courses—And Consequent Develop- ment of Evening Work. : — CONTENTS PAGE Report of the Secretary of the University . 135 The Alumni—Statistical Record—Pamphlets in Spanish and Chinese—Supplementary Pamphlets—Our Duty towards Students. Appendices 1. Statistics Regarding the Teaching and Admin- istrative Staff for the Academic Year 1908-09 139 Summary of Officers—^Vacancies—Promotions —Changes of Title—Appointments—Leaves of Absence—Official Representatives, 1908- 09—Summary. 2. Addresses, Public Lectures, Concerts and Re- citals ....... 150 3. Earl Hall 163 4. Synopsis of Report of the Committee on Em- ployment for Students .... 164 5. Gifts and Bequests Other than Money, 1908-09 166 Report of the Registrar ..... 167 Enrolment—Table I, Registration, 1908-09 Table II, Registration, 1898- 1909—Table III, Percentage of Increase and Decrease of Regis- tration, 1899- 1909—Tables IV, V, Enrolment by Departments under Faculty of Applied Science—Table VI, Seminary Students, Class- ification of Summer Session Students—Table VII, Classification of Graduate Students Table VIII, Summary by Divisions and Facul- ties—Table IX, Major and Minor Subjects of Graduate Students—Table X, Summary by Di- visions—Tables XI, XII, Geographical Distri- bution—Table XIII, Parentage of Degrees held by Students—Table XIV, Nature of De- grees held by Students—Table XV, Degrees and Diplomas Granted, 1908-09—Table XVI, : — CONTENTS PAGE Number of Degrees and Diplomas Granted, 1902-09—Table XVII. (A) Specialties of Re- cipients of Higher Degrees, 1908-09, (B) Higher Degrees Granted under each Faculty Table XVIII, Age of College and Applied Sci- ence Students at Beginning of Academic Year, 1908-09—Table XIX, Classification of Stu- dents Attending One or More Courses of In- struction in the Various Departments . 203 Summer Session of 1909: Geographical Distribution— (A) Students Classified According to Sex; (B) Students Classified as Old and New; (C) Students Classified According to Faculties; (D) Stu- dents Classified According to Teaching Posi- tions; (E) Students Classified According to Residence; (F) Aggregated Attendance on Courses; (G) Aggregated Attendance on Courses, 1900-1909. B. Buildings and Grounds : Report of the Consulting Engineer . 211 Kent Hall—Lecture Hall—University Hall Residence Halls—Faculty Apartments—Medi- cal School—Teachers College—Class Gifts. C. The Library Report of the Acting Librarian . 216 Income—Expenditures—Record of Gifts. 2. Report of the Treasurer to the Trustees : . , i (Paged separately, following page 222 of Educational Reports. Table of contents prefixed.) Financial Statement, Barnard College . 60 Financial Statement, Teachers College , , 61 Financial Statement, College of Pharmacy . 64 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY To the Trustees: The Annual Report on the work of the University for the year ending June 30, 1909, is herewith sub- mitted in conformity with the provisions of the Stat- utes. The reports of the Deans, of the Directors of the Summer Session and of Extension Teaching, of the Secretary of the University, of the Consulting Engineer, of the Registrar and of other chief admin- istrative officers record in complete detail the work of the year. The recommendations contained in these several reports are commended to the careful con- sideration of the Trustees and of their several committees. The general condition of the University in all its parts and with respect to each of its interests may truly be said to be more satisfactory General than ever before. Where defects exist, Conditions every effort is making to remedy them. The productive activity of the scholars of the University in extending here a little and there a little the boundaries of exact knowledge grows steadily greater and more im- portant. The effectiveness of the teaching, both in the college, in the several professional schools and in 2 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY the faculties given over to advanced instruction and research, continues to gain in vigor and effectiveness. The number of well-prepared students resorting to the University from all parts of the United States and of the world has increased to a total hitherto without precedent. It has been possible to provide somewhat more adequately than heretofore for various pressing needs, with the result that both the teaching staff and the physical equipment of the University are more nearly adequate to the tasks imposed upon them than was formerly the case. The annual compensation of officers in service has been advanced during the past eight years, despite the embarrassments which have surrounded the Trustees on every side, by no less a sum than $175,000. While the salaries of the teach- ing force are still below what they should be, and must shortly be still farther increased, yet what has already been done has been of the greatest value, and it has been highly appreciated by the teaching staff. The legislation of the University Council and of the several Faculties has made provision for dealing with the most important educational problems of the moment in satisfactory fashion, and the adminis- trative officers of the University are putting the policies ordained by the Council and the Faculties into effect with steadily increasing efficiency. It has not yet been possible to relieve teaching officers as largely as should be the case of administrative duties, nor has it been possible to provide them with the clerical assistance which is necessary for the most economical use of their time and strength. There are important fields of activity urged upon us into which we may not now enter, because of lack of funds; but the his- PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL REPORT 3 tory of the past encourages us to believe that as these new demands are clearly stated and strongly empha- sized, the means with which to meet them will be provided. An Institute of Public Health and Sanitary Science should be organized without delay, on the lines pro- posed by the special committee on that subject, whose report was submitted to the President under date of April 26, 1909. The Faculty of Applied Science has established a new course of instruction in Sanitary Engineering, and will be glad, as soon as they are enabled to do so, to put in operation courses already contemplated in Forestry and in Agricultural Science. The Faculty of Fine Arts is ready to go forward with a course in Landscape Architecture, the exist- ence of a demand for which has been made known in many ways. It has not yet been possible, through lack of means, to make an appointment to the Torrey Professorship of Botany, vacant since the death of Professor Under- wood. The presence during a portion of the past year of Professor Penck, of the University of Berlin, and his admirable instruction as Kaiser Wilhelm Professor, emphasized the need for the establishment at Colum- bia of a properly endowed chair of Geography. The language and the literature of Russia, as well as the language and the literature of Japan, remain without academic representation here. The University library, and particularly the law library, require the expenditure upon them of consid- erable sums of money in order that they may serve the 4 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY teachers and students of the University as they should.