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station. Now that the -university has 

 greatly enlarged its farm, it will be pos- 

 sible, if state funds are available, to add to 

 the live stock of the college, which is needed 

 as material both for demonstration to stu- 

 dents and research by professors. New 

 York state produces about one ninth of the 

 hay and forage of the United States, and 

 the animal industries of the state are of 

 enormous value. This is a field, therefore, 

 to which the instruction and investigation 

 of the college should be peculiarly directed, 

 and the state appropriation of $25,000 for 

 barns has solved the problem of housing 

 facilities as the purchase by the university 

 of land has solved the problems of pastures 

 and fodder. 



New courses have been added to the cur- 

 riculum in the college of civil engineering, 

 notably in the field of sanitary engineering, 

 but President Schurman points out that 

 there is stiU necessity for improvement in 

 the field of hydraulics, and he adds that 

 strong as the department of hydraulics 

 now is it is greatly in need of development 

 to meet the demands of the age and the 

 prospects of the future. "Water is destined 

 from now on to play a great part in the 

 economic development of the United States, 

 for apart from its uses for domestic and 

 sanitary purposes, it is hereafter to be used 

 on a vast scale for power and for irriga- 

 tion as well as for navigation. The maxi- 

 mum benefit to be got wiU be sought in the 

 east from navigation and power and in the 

 west from irrigation and power. For the 

 new work to come in these vast fields there 

 will be needed a type of engineer highly 

 specialized in hydraulics. 



In addition to the farm lands purchased 

 for the State College of Agriculture and 

 the State Veterinary College, President 

 Schurman announces the acquisition of 

 nearly 50 acres of land as an extension of 

 the campus proper on the southeast, thus 

 making the entire area now included in the 



campus 350 acres, the distance north and 

 south being about five eighths of a mile, 

 and the distance east and west about a mile. 

 The university campus and farms now 

 aggregate nearly 1,100 acres. 



Coming to the finances of the university. 

 President Schurman reports that excluding 

 the medical college in New York City, 

 which is maintained by separate funds, 

 the productive funds of the university 

 amounted on August 1, 1908, to $8,628,- 

 370.31 as compared with $8,550,916.84 on 

 August 1, 1907, while the inventoried value 

 of the university grounds and buildings at 

 the present time is given as $4,263,405.07. 

 The most marked changes in the invest- 

 ments during the year were an increase in 

 steam railroad bonds from $1,019,500 to 

 $1,414,100 and a decrease in real estate 

 mortgages from $1,515,538.48 to $1,324,- 

 217.66. The income statement shows a 

 total income from all sources of $1,356,- 

 498.59. The income of the university at 

 Ithaca, excluding the state colleges, ran 

 short of the expense budget by $12,242, as. 

 a result of the purchase of campus lands. 



President Schurman closes his report 

 with a brief but cogent statement of the 

 most pressing needs of the university, fiLrst 

 among which he places endowments for the 

 augmentation of the present low salaries 

 of professors and instructors, who, as the 

 president points out, are the vital and 

 energizing soul of any university. Next 

 comes the need of a system of residential 

 halls and commons for the young men of 

 the university, thousands of whom are now 

 obliged to seek accommodations in private 

 boarding and lodging houses throughout 

 the city. After these in order of impor- 

 tance, though equally urgent for the con- 

 duet of the work of the university, are 

 mentioned the need of a general assembly 

 hall capable of accommodating the entire 

 student body, a new and greatly enlarged 

 armory, a new laboratory for veterinary 



