leading to the basement and second floor are the class room and instructor's room for dairying. On the right of the main entrance is the department reading room. The north end of this floor is occupied by the museum, which is 54 feet by 67 feet, with an attendant's room. The north end of the high basement is occupied by the dairy department. This consists of a receiving room, a pasteurizing room, a store room, a refrigerator room, a lavatory, butter-making room, cheese-making room, two cheese-curing rooms, and an instructor's room. In the south end of this floor is a live-stock room about 40 feet square. One-third of this room is occupied by raised seats, the remaining floor space being used for exhibiting and judging live stock. Connected with this is a room fitted with stalls for the temporary accommodation of live stock when needed for class exercises. The basement also contains soil-storage room, bathroom, toilet rooms, repair shop, locker rooms, bicycle room, and janitor's room. A small detached building will furnish steam and power for the dairy department. Detached from the main building, but connected with the soil-storage room by a tramway, is a glass house 30 by 40 feet, for the study of soils and the experi mental growth of plants. The north end of the second story contains a large student laboratory for the department of agricultural chemistry, connected with an organic and analysis laboratory, a balance room, a storeroom, and a private laboratory. The lecture room of this department is at the south end of this floor, and will seat 160 students on raised seats, with a preparation room adjoining. There is also on this floor a class room connecting with preparation room, storeroom, and instructor's room, which will be used temporarily by the department of voterinary medicine. There is also an extra class room, ladies' toilet and locker rooms, and a hall for the use of the Townshend Society, designed to seat about 200 persons. Cost, $85,000. Biological Hall.-This building is for the special accommodation of the departments of entomology, zoology, anatomy, and physiology, and is fully equipped with all the latest and best apparatus for this work. It consists of a basement, in which is done all the work of preparation of subjects for the lecture tables and for the special laboratory work of the advanced students; the first floor, on which are lecture rooms, general and special laboratories, and private work rooms for the professor of entomology and zoology and his assistants; the second floor, similarly arranged for the work in anatomy and physiology; and a large wing, in which is the museum and a large lecture room. The building is fireproof throughout, and in design and general appearance is one of the most attractive on the campus. Cost, $35,000. The Gymnasium and Armory.-This building has a drill hall and gymnasium floor 80 feet wide by 150 feet long. The roof is carried on curved steel arches, lighted from a clear story at the top. There is a running track around the entire room, about 12 feet from the floor, back of which is a visitors' gallery, seating about 1,200 persons. At the northwest corner of the floor is a stairway leading down to the men's locker and dressing room, while the young women go down a similar way at the northeast corner to their rooms. On the level with the main floor, near the main entrance at the south, is a large room for the use of the commandant and his classes, and rooms for the director of the gymnasium. Above the commandant's room is the room for the officers of the university cadet corps. The basement is very high and well lighted. On the young men's side are dressing and locker rooms, the bathroom with shower and plunge baths, a bicycle room, a lecture room, the cannon room, the band room, and a large room which is to be the home of the university athletic association. On the young women's side are the locker rooms and bathrooms, precisely like those provided for the young men; a bicycle room, lecture room, and private office for the instructor in sanitation. Cost, $76,000. Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College.-A small house belonging to the experiment station has been enlarged at a cost of $500, and is partly used for instruction of classes in geology and veterinary science. Pennsylvania State College.-Repairs and water supply and steam plant, $18,000. Rhode Island College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.-The legislature has given us $15,000 for a recitation and drill hall of granite. The hall itself is 140 by 40 feet. We shall have about 6,000 square feet to apply to electrical engineering, two large recitation rooms, a suitable room to be used for a library, and one for a chapel which will seat 250 auditors. We have enlarged our poultry department, and are fitting up a wooden building having over 3,000 square feet of floor space for a chemical laboratory. South Dakota State Agricultural College.-A new building has been erected for a mechanical laboratory. It is 90 by 40 feet, of brick, and of two stories. On the first floor are an office, class room, and machine and dynamo room. The second floor is devoted to drawing and carpentry. Cost, $5,000. Two buildings have been remodeled, one for instruction in physics, industrial art, and domestic science, another for agricultural experiment work. The latter contains laboratories for soil physics, chemistry, animal and vegetable biological work. Other changes in buildings have also been made. An electric-light plant has been installed, the library moved to a central building, and an entire floor has been given to the chemical and pharmaceutical departments. Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College.-The legislature at its recent session appropriated $25,000 for building and equipping a larger mess hall and $3,000 for two additional cottages for the use of the professors. Utah Agricultural College.-During the year a wing of the new building designed for shopwork was erected at a cost of $2,000. This is used as the forge shop. During the coming year this building will be completed. The legislature appropriated $5,000 for additional shops, $2,000 for laboratory, $1,000 for manual training, $2,000 for sewerage and repairs. Virginia Polytechnic Institute.-New waterworks have been completed, as also new dormitory. West Virginia University.-No new buildings have been erected, but appropriations have been made for completing the "University building" by adding the two wings required by the plan. University of Wisconsin.-"Ladies' Hall" was completely remodeled and an addition of 75 by 50 feet added. In the basement and first story of the addition is placed the apparatus of the woman's gymnasium. The second floor contains the lecture and practice rooms for the department of music. The third floor is fitted up as chambers, and the fourth as a dining room. The main building (erected in 1870) has been remodeled, a story added, and the rooms arranged in pairs, each pair being a chamber and a study. The building now has accommodations for 80 students. Cost, $80,000. The new wing of the horticulture-physics building was completed during the year at a cost of $17,000, not including $3,000 for furniture and apparatus. The completed structure, costing in all $10,000, has a frontage of 76 by 60 feet, and is of three stories. It is built of white brick, with Waukesha stone and tinted trimmings. From the rear protrude three glass houses 75 feet in depth. University of Wyoming.-A new wing of white sandstone is to be added to the mechanical building during the summer (1897) for the purpose of increasing the facilities for forge and foundry work. The approximate cost is $1,000. An addition will be made to the greenhouse, costing $300 to $500. Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical College (for colored citizens).—Palmer Hall, which was destroyed by fire June 17, 1896, has been rebuilt at a cost of $5,000. Á large auditorium has also been erected and additions made to several buildings. Delaware State College for Colored Students.-Three new farm buildings and fencing for the entire farm have been put up at a cost of $2,000. Kentucky Normal School for Colored Persons.-A professor's house was built during the past year at a cost of $788, and four additional acres purchased at a cost of $850. It is our purpose, during the next school year, to remodel our main school building at a cost not to exceed $4,000. Southern University and Agricultural College.-We have recently built in the assembly hall of the university certain galleries which increase its seating capacity one-half. Cost, $750. Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College. Since the last report a dormitory costing $7,000 and a blacksmith shop costing about $3,000 have been completed. Colored Normal, Industrial, Agricultural, and Mechanical College of South Carolina.During the year 1896 we built and furnished and equipped the following buildings: Main building, 126 by 62 feet, three and one-half stories, containing eight recitation rooms, two offices on the first floor, fifty-two sleeping rooms on the second, third, and fourth floors; also, a dining hall with a seating capacity for 800 students, and kitchen, etc. These buildings will cost about $25,000. Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute.-[The large building devoted to teaching the mechanic arts, spoken of in the last report of this Bureau, was dedicated November, 1896, with imposing ceremonies. The new building for the more thorough study of the scientific ideas or natural laws underlying the practical work of agriculture is mentioned under the name of the school in the preceding section of this chapter.] The West Virginia Colored Institute.-There is now being constructed a large and ornamental brick building for the girls, to cost when completed $18,000. THE TEACHING CORPS AND THE ATTENDANCE FOR 1896–97. There were, all told, excluding two colleges not reporting (North Carolina and Arizona), 25,069 students in the colleges for the Caucasian race, who were taught in the departments of agriculture and the mechanic arts by 1,350 men and 122 women. The grade of the students is shown by the following table: In schools for the negro race there were (two colleges failing to report). The students of the colleges were engaged in studies which may be classed under the following heads (Colorado and Kansas schools not definitely reporting the num ber of students in agriculture, and the North Carolina Agricultural College and the University of Arizona' both failing to reply to the repeated requests for the statistics for the year 1896-97, made in compliance with the law of August 30, 1890): The financial reports of the presidents of the colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts (excluding the institutions for the colored race, except in the case of the State of Maryland) for 1896-97 show the following facts, two colleges (the North Carolina Agricultural College and the University of Arizona1) failing to report: Federal aid: (a) Income from land grant of 1862 (as far as reported by presidents).. (b) Income from act of August 30, 1890 (from treasurers' reports). 2 $568, 651 3 948, 818 $398,048 1,859.486 1,548, 211 4,925, 166 Fees, and other sources of income...... Total (omitting colored schools, except Maryland and the State aid and fees to the Of these sums there were expended during the year For instruction in the subjects mentioned in the act of August 30, 1890, including facilities for teaching those subjects For instruction in other subjects.. For administrative expenses (presidents', secretaries', etc., salaries). $2, 166, 844 $519,377 1,611, 939 Total...... 3,778,783 It is to be stated that the amount of money carried over to the year 1897-98 is unknown to this Bureau, except in the case of the funds received from the Federal Government. In the report for last year it was assumed that the amount received from the Government was expended during the course of twelve months, more or fewer, irrespective of the beginning of the fiscal year of each State and the date at The delayed report of the president of the University of Arizona shows a professional corps of 14, 64 men and 53 women in the preparatory department aud 27 men and 8 women in the collegiate department. Not including that of several States which fail to report. 3 The total disbursement was $1,056,000, of which $107,182 went to institutions for colored race, as follows: Alabama, $9,988; Arkansas, $6,000; Delaware, $4,400; Florida, $11,000; Georgia, $7,333; Kentucky, $3,190; Louisiana, $11.346; Maryland, $1,400; Mississippi, $11,783; Missouri, $1,196; North Carolina, $7,713; South Carolina, $11,000; Texas, $5,500; Virginia. $7,333; West Virginia, $5,000. which the Federal money was received. With the information at hand it was impossible for the Bureau to do otherwise. It can now be stated that of the amount received from the Federal Treasury by the States and Territories in the course of the latter half of the year 1896, or previously, the sum of $173,080 appears by the treasurers' reports to have been on hand at the date of July 1, 1897, considering the white schools apart from the colored. The colored schools report $25,424 of Federal money on hand on July 1, 1897, one institution reporting $15,141 to its credit. The difficulty appears to be that the practice of asking for an account for the school year closing June 30, by the Federal Government, is at variance with the bookkeeping of several States whose fiscal year is different from the school year. Including all accounts-Federal, State, or corporate-the presidents' reports for 1896-97 show that there was on hand on July 1, 1896, over and above all indebtedness (excluding funded debt, if any), the sum of $606,853, with two institutions not reporting. The institutions for the colored race report the following facts: |