For detailed account of expenditures we refer to the Secretary's report. For condition of the permanent fund and of the income fund, we refer to the report of the Treasurer. For a full statement of our needs and of the present condition of the University, we refer to the report of the President, and to the annual catalogue, a copy of which is placed before each member of the General Assembly. The last General Assembly, in response to our request for an appropriation of eighty thousand dollars, gave us fifty thousand dollars with special designation, as follows: For new Medical building For enlargement and changes and repairs.. .$ 30,000.00 10,000.00 10,000.00 The work designated has been fully accomplished within the amounts specially appropriated, and, as we believe, the money has been economically expended. The new Medical building is complete and convenient, and exactly suited to the wants of the Medical Department. It is a brick structure, 62 x 84 feet, four stories in height, furnishing two large section halls, an unusually large and well ventilated dissecting room, and a large number of recitation rooms, and anatomical and physiological laboratories. The building is heated by steam. The money appropriated for steam-heating of other buildings, and for changes and repairs, has been expended as follows: For two new boilers, enlargement of boiler-house, and steam apparatus for library and chemical laboratory and steam supply pipes for two buildings..... For change of library and new furniture. For repairs of hospital (new roof) For general repairs....... Total agreeing with appropriation ... .$ 7,537.36 1,217.87 319.58 925.19 .$ 10,000.00 The remaining ten thousand dollars was added to the income fund, and the salaries of professors were restored to the schedule of earlier years. In this connection we would ask that an appropriation be made for our income fund of twelve thousand dollars, as increased classes demand additional teachers and appliances, and the ten thousand dollars appropriated by the last Legislature barely sufficed for our current needs, without any increase of teaching force. The demand, so urgently pressed two years ago, for the means wherewith to erect a building for the special uses of the Department of Natural Science has lost none of its force with the growth of the two years. On the contrary, we are impelled to ask for means wherewith to erect two buildings. The Department of Physical Science must have enlarged, and more suitable, accommodations. The growth of the University in the direction of study in Science is marked. In five years the number of students has trebled, with very inconsiderable increase of facilities for their proper instruction. Students of Letters have not at all decreased, so that room heretofore occupied by them cannot be taken to supply the need. We have every possible part of the buildings we have at our command, utilized and the cry is still for room. Many classes are duplicated, some triplicated, to the great inconVenience of students and teachers. The large number of high schools and academies now serving as preparatory schools are pouring in their students upon us. We must not turn them away. We cannot accommodate them as we ought, and as this great State, free from debt, is abundantly able to do. We come, as your servants, telling you the need of your Institution, and asking you for sixty thousand dollars for two buildings. As our request is in behalf of the Collegiate Department we submit the following table of enrollment for the past five years: We ask a careful scrutiny of our needs, a thorough inspection of our use of funds, and then an appropriation, which will keep the University up to the demands which the young men and women of Iowa and surrounding States are making upon her. In behalf of the Board of Regents of the State University of Iowa. WILLIAM J. HADDOCK, BUREN R. SHERMAN, President. Secretary. |