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available corner of shops and laboratories has had to be crowded with 

 apparatus and machinery. 



The standards of admission have been raised and enforced with gi-eat 

 rigor, and many students have been turned away, yet the present fresh- 

 man class numbers 375. Students in this class have been enrolled pro- 

 visionally, as it could not be undertaken to furnish instruction to any 

 such number another year under existing conditions. 



Students must continue to be turned away unless a larger income can 

 be obtained, both for instruction and maintenance, and for the provision 

 of additional facilities in the way of buildings and equipment; for while 

 the attendance of students has increased eighty per cent, within the past 

 five years, the income has grown but fifteen per cent. 



Since the institution was opened there has been received from the 

 State, for all purposes whatever, $1,102,270. Of this amount $311,212 

 was for the permanent equipment of the institution. From the United 

 States and other sources, $1,9G4,086 has been received. 



For this investment of something more than a million by the State, she 

 now holds University property valued at $737,682 as follows: Grounds, 

 $100,000; buildings, $451,300; apparatus, $168,212; furniture, etc., $18,170; 

 besides having, as has been said, graduated 1,659 men and women who 

 went out into the world well equipped to help others as well as them- 

 selves, and having aided in a similar way, to a greater or less extent, 

 nearly 6,000 others. 



The present income of the University is something less than $150,00*'. 

 of which all but about $66,000, comes from sources aside from State a.a, 

 which aid is principally given in the form of a State educational tax, 

 amounting for Purdue to one-twentieth of a mill on the dollar. 



At pi-esent the pressing needs of the University are a new building 

 for the Physics Department, now attempting to instruct over four hun- 

 dred students in laboratories and class rooms intended for less than half 

 that number; new shops for the department of practical mechanics, 

 relieving the tension in the Engineering Building by allowing the upper 

 classes to occupy the room given up to the shops and foundry; a new 

 gymnasium, which will afford opportunity for physical development so 

 necessary when the mental worli is of such an arduous character as in 

 a school like Purdue, and above all, an income which will provide for 

 these improvements as well as for securing the additional instructors 

 needed to care for the overcrowded classes. 



The work of the Agricultural Experiment Station continues to gi'ow 

 in effectiveness, but is much hampered by lack of means, which forbids 

 the publication of many valuable researches, the reprinting of many pub- 

 lications of which the supply is exhausted, but for which the demand 

 still continues, and the more general dissemination of many of the pub- 

 lications now issued. Indiana is almost unique in her treatment of her 

 agricultural experiment station for which no appropriation has ever been 



