THIRTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION. 



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these seven years, it is fair to say that the scope of agricultural 

 education has doubled, the directions in which instruction and 

 research are demanded has more than doubled, and the students 

 enrolled number nearly two and one-third times those of seven 

 years since; while the funds and facilities available are practically 

 the same as those of 1903-04. In this connection attention is 

 called to the following table, a careful study of which is invited: 



Growth and Funds of College and Station, University of Illinois. 



Federal Funds State Appropriation Students Graduating Graduate 



Year College Station College Station Registered Class Students 



90-91 $ 5,000 $15,000 7 2 



91-92 5,000 15,000 6 2 



92-93 5,000 15,000 13 2 



93^94 5,000 15,000 5 12 



94-95 5,000 15,000 9 



95-96 7,000 15,000 14 



96-97 7,000 15,000 17 2 



97-98 7,000 15,000 19 2 



98-99 7,000 15,000 25 4 



99-00 28,000 15,000 90 2 



00-01 28,000 15,000 159 4 



01-02 28,000 15,000 $ 8,000 $ 54,000 232 4 



02-03 28,000 15,000 8,000 54,000 284 9 



03-04 28,000 15,000 61,000 85,000 339 10 



04-05 28,000 15,000 61,000 85,000 406 18 



05-06 28,500 20,000 61,000 95,000 430 24 9 



06-07 28,500 22,000 61,000 95,000 462 43 10 



07-08 31,000 24,000 71,000 102,500 528 38 17 



08-09 33,500 26,000 71,000 102,500 531 54 15 



09-10 36,000 28,000 55,000 138,000 660 49 23 



10-11 38,500 30,000 55,000 138,000 662* ? 31* 



♦Will be at least 750, all told, before the year closes, besides 50 in 

 the Academy. 



The average annual rate of increase in the number of students for 

 the past ten years has been over 17%. On this basis, in two years (and 

 before all buildings recommended can be completed) there will be over 



1,000 students, and in five years there will be nearly 1,700. 



If the people of Illinois are to be effectively served as they 

 have been in the past, immediate provision for not only present 

 essentials, but for reasonable requirements in the near future 

 must be made; otherwise our college will sink into the position 

 of a second rate school, and our students seeking education must 

 go to other states. 



