REPORT OF STATE BOARD OF VISITORS. To His Excellency Leon Abbett, Governor of the State of New Jersey: HONORED SIR-The Board of Visitors to the State Agricultural College herewith present their twenty-eighth annual report upon the present condition and course of instruction in that institution, as required in the act creating the Board, entitled "An act appropriating scrip for lands granted to the State of New Jersey by the act of Congress approved July 2d, 1862," and approved April 4th, 1864. The members of the Board have attended the semi-annual examinations of the students pursuing either the regular or special courses of instruction given in the Scientific Department of Rutgers College; have visited the laboratories and collections of the institution, and the farm provided for the Agricultural College by the Trustees of Rutgers College, and report upon each of these. The first meeting of the Board, in this year, was held at the College, June 17th, 1892, and the following examinations were attended : Juniors, in History of Civilization, by Professor Stevenson. Juniors, in Integral Calculus, by Professor Bowser. Sophomores, in Analytic Geometry, by Professor Titsworth. Freshmen, in English Literature, by Professor Hart. In the afternoon the members of the Board attended the public exercises of the reading of theses by the members of the graduating class, when the following programme was carried out: Andrew Hall Berry, Elizabeth, N. J., "Road Construction and Maintenance." Eugene Betts, Hackensack, N. J., "The Alternate Current Transformer." Holmes Earle Bruere, Cream Ridge, N. J., "The Delaware Railroad Bridge, Trenton, New Jersey." George Colfax Bullock, Jacobstown, N. J., "The New Stone Bridge Across the Raritan River at New Brunswick, New Jersey." William Jacob Cooper, New Brunswick, N. J., "The Vauclain Compound Locomotive." Peter Conover Field, New Brunswick, N. J., "Histology of the Feeding Apparatus of the Oyster." Harold Lyman Hoyt, New Brunswick, N. J., "The Steel Arches of the Washington Bridge, New York City." J. Livingston Rutgers Morgan, New Brunswick, N. J., "The Molecular Lowering of the Freezing Point." William Thomas Morrison, New Brunswick, N. J., "The New Orleans Dynamo and Motor." William Heulings Stafford, Haddonfield, N. J., "The Girard Avenue Bridge, Philadelphia, Pa." Frank Robertson Van Horn, Johnsonburg, N. J., "Some Modern Ideas of Solution." Garrett Scott Voorhees, Bedminster, N. J., "The Relation of Chemical Manures to the Intensive System of Farming." Henry Edwin Waters, Rahway, N. J., "The Kansas City Bridge, Kansas City, Missouri.” Daniel Gregory Wright, Elizabeth, N. J., "Weston's Dam, New Brunswick, New Jersey." George Hampton Wyckoff, New Brunswick, N. J., "Viscosity." At the close of these exercises, the members of the Board severally gave the result of their observations, after which it was voted that the Trustees of Rutgers College were faithfully and liberally fulfilling their contract with the State. The second meeting was held at the College on the 18th of December, at which time the following classes and subjects of study were attended, viz.: Seniors, in Political Economy, by the President. Seniors, in Biology, by Professor Nelson. Juniors, in English Constitution, by Professor Stevenson. Juniors, in Mechanics and Optics, by Professor Van Dyck. Juniors, in Analytic Geometry and Differential Calculus, by Professor Bowser. Sophomores, in Descriptive Geometry, by Professor Titsworth. Sophomores, in Experimental Chemistry, by Mr. Mitchell. Freshmen, in Civics, by the President. Freshmen, in Rhetoric, by Professor Doolittle. There were also the usual military drills by all of the Scientific students, under the command of Lieutenant Brereton. Burlington, 3 Reginald B. Allen, '93, resident of Burlington. Albert H. Darnell, '93, resident of Burlington. Arthur H. Temple, '96, resident of Morris. Camden, 2 Isaac Christman, '96, resident of Camden. Cape May, 1 Alanson M. Gray, '95, resident of Union. Essex, 6 Horace M. Decker, '93, resident of Essex. Gloucester, 1 David H. Townley, '93, resident of Union. Hudson, 6 Harry N. Selvage, '93, resident of Hudson. John H. Carnes, '95, resident of Hudson. William H. Stilson, '95, resident of Hudson. James M. McCloskey, '94, resident of Middlesex. Hunterdon, 1 John F. Hunt, '96, resident of Hunterdon. 2 Richard S. Lull, '93, resident of Mercer. Wilfred R. Woodward, '96, resident of Mercer. Mercer, Middlesex, 2 Daniel H. McLaury, '93, resident of Middlesex. Alexander B. Way, '95, resident of Middlesex. Monmouth, 2 Charles M. Denise, '95, resident of Monmouth. Christopher A. Hibler, '96, resident of Morris. Morris, 2 Irving E. Salmon, '95, resident of Morris. •Died January 7th, 1893. Salem, Warren, 1 John L. Gray, '96, resident of Union. APPOINTEES TO ADDITIONAL SCHOLARSHIPS ESTABLISHED BY TRUSTEES, 1888. APPOINTEES TO ASSEMBLY DISTRICT SCHOLARSHIPS, UNDER ACT of 1890. |