Report of the Director. 13 



At its June meeting, the Board of Trustees provided for seventy- 

 three officers in the teacliing and experimenting staff (aside from 

 stenographers, janitors, helpers, and student assistants), with a 

 salary roll of nearly $100,000. 



The increase in students in the College of Agriculture has ex- 

 ceeded the capacity of the equipment and facilities at our disposal, 

 inasmuch as we were not able to use any part of the new buildings ' 

 for the entire college year, and large parts of them not at all. The 

 total enrollment of students registered in the College of Agriculture, 

 1906-7, is as follows (being a total gain of 34 over the previous 

 year) : 



Graduates 33 



Regulars ^45 



Specials ^^9 



Winter-course 241 



548 

 Counted twice o 



542 



The distribution of registration in the winter-courses is as 

 follows : 



General Agriculture 84 



Dairying 74 



Poultry Husbandry 47 



Horticulture 12 



Home Economics 24 



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The year has witnessed the foundation of five scholarships in the 

 College of Agriculture by Dr. Charles H. Roberts of Oakes, Ulster 

 County, New- York. The endowment of $30,000, on which these 

 scholarships are founded, was given to the University without solici- 

 tation, the donor feeling that something should be done to aid the 

 struggling cotmtry youth in the effort to secure an education that 

 should prepare for country life. The gift is made in recognition 

 of similar aid that the donor received in his youth that enabled 

 him to pursue studies in the Albany Medical College. This noble 

 gift is the first permanent endowment in this country, so far as I 

 know, for scholarships in agriculture, and it is especially fitting that 

 the name of the donor should be organically associated with it in 

 the title " The Charles H. Roberts Scholarships." This gift is sub- 

 stantial recognition of the fact that agricultural education is now 

 beginning to appeal to the general public. 



