REPORT OF THE STATE BOARD OF VISITORS. To His Excellency John W. Griggs, LL.D., Governor of the State of New Jersey: HONORED SIR-The Board of Visitors to the State Agricultural College herewith present their thirty-second annual report upon the present condition and courses of instruction in that institution, as required by the act creating the Board, entitled "An act appropriating scrip for the public lands granted to the State of New Jersey by the act of Congress approved July second, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two," and approved April 4th, 1864. The members of the Board made their semi-annual examinations of the students pursuing the regular or special courses of instruction, for the present fiscal year, on December 12th, 1895, and June 5th, 1896. They also visited the laboratories, the draughting-room, the military drill hall, the collections of the institution and the farm provided for the State Agricultural College by the Trustees of Rutgers College. The membership of the Faculty of the College is 27, and all but 3 of this number have given instruction in the Scientific School. The enrollment of students was 131-Seniors, 43; Juniors, 29; Sophomores, 25; Freshmen, 29; and special students not candidates for a degree, 5. There were also 51 students in the Classical courses, and 148 pupils in attendance at the Preparatory School. The degree of Bachelor of Science was conferred upon 41 graduates in June, 1896. Of these graduates, 12 had pursued the course in Civil Engineering and Mechanics, 4 the course in Chemistry, 18 the course in Electricity and 7 the course in Biology. The final examinations of the students in the subjects pursued during the term which closed in June, 1896, were well sustained. At the close of each of the examinations of the students and the inspection of the buildings and facilities for instruction, the members of the Board met in formal session and reported severally upon the It was observations and impressions of their semi-annual visits. voted unanimously that the Trustees and Faculty of Rutgers College are faithfully and liberally carrying out the provisions of their contract with the State. The five full courses of instruction leading to the first degree in Science have been maintained throughout the year. The long-established courses in Civil Engineering and Mechanics and in Chemistry have received the average number of elections by the students, and each holds its high rank in the estimation of the graduates of the institution and of the citizens of the State. The courses in Electricity and in Biology are growing in value to the undergraduates, both in class-room work and in laboratory practice, by the constant additions of needed apparatus. The course in Agriculture is now on a firm basis, the teaching of the subject in an elementary way to each member of the Freshman Class by the Professor of Agriculture, and the assumption of the duties of Superintendent of the College Farm by the same officer, affording unusual facilities for instruction in the theory and practice of Agriculture. No notable changes in the buildings of the institution have been made during the year, the accommodations and equipment being adequate for the present. The regular military drill of the students and the general gymnastic practice in the new Robert F. Ballantine Gymnasium have attained a high degree of excellence. The following is a list of the members of the graduating class in 1896, together with the subject of each graduate's thesis: Louis Derby Ayres, Bayonne, N. J., "The Development of the Arc Light." Joseph George Baier, New Brunswick, N. J., "A Double System Warren Bridge Truss." Wesley Warner Burden, New York City, "Electricity as Applied to Launches." William Ryall Burtis, Freehold, N. J. "Opium and the Opium Habit." William Pierson Carter, Springfield, N. J., "Fungous Diseases of Orchids." Walter Knickerbocker Cavileer, Lower Bank, N. J., "The Arc Lamp." George Dunn Cornish, Gillette, N. J., "The Edison System of Wiring an Electric Car." Bergen Davis, White House Station, N. J., "A New Electric Friction Brake." Paul Kirk Douglas, Newark, N. J., "Electric Lighting." Erkuries Beatty Fithian, Bridgeton, N. J., "Through Pratt Truss." Alfred Cookman Gregory, Trenton, N. J., "Vitrified Brick Roadways with a Typical Pavement of the Same." Spencer Littlefield Higgins, Roselle, N. J., "Tesla Rotating Field Motors." William Roger Hogg, Toms River, N. J., "The Deck Baltimore Bridge." Lester Inglis, Paterson, N. J., "Poisonous Plants." George Elbert Jackson, Brooklyn, N. Y., "The Effects of Varying Current on the Electro-Motive Force of Batteries." Thomas Herbert Letson, New Brunswick, N. J., "The Nicaragua Canal." Herbert Arthur Luster, Elizabeth, N. J., "The Aniline Dyes." Frank Conover Manley, New Brunswick, N. J., "Discussion of a Fink Roof Truss." Frank Leaming Manning, Red Bank, N. J., "The Niagara Falls Electrical Power Transmission Plant." Bartholomew Francis Monaghan, Newark, N. J., "Ergot and Ergotism." George Sheldon Mower, Newark, N. J., "The Collection and the Supply of Water for Power." George Winfield Nuttman, Newark, N. J., "Dissemination of Plant Offspring." William O'Connor, Paterson, N. J., "Soap." Cullen Warner Parmelee, Ocean Grove, N. J., "The Sources and General Characteristics of the Natural Dyestuffs Yielding Red Dyes." Robert Matthews Pierson, Elizabeth, N. J., "Plant of the Suburban Electric Company at Elizabeth, New Jersey." John Francis Post, Jr., Riverdale, N. J., "Genus Cinchona of the Order Rubiacea." Charles Anson Poulson, Mendham, N. J., "Electric Lighting at Morristown, New Jersey." Irving Lee Reed, Ocean Grove, N. J., "The Edison 6-kilo Watt Dynamo." Allison Burton Roome, Butler, N. J., "The Sioux City Bridge." Waldo Berth Rosencrantz, Cranford, N. J., "Three Systems of Electric Traction with an Original Underground Conduit and Trolley." Henry De Witt Tremper, Kingston, N. Y., "Car Wiring with Two Motors and S-P Controllers, Form K, Using Shunt Method of Control." Garret Van Cleve, Paterson, N. J., "Electrical Transformation of Niagara's Power." William Van Bergen Van Dyck, New Brunswick, N. J., "Potential Energy." Howard Edward Van Ness, Little Falls, N. J., "A Comparison between Electricity and Compressed Air as a Power." Robert Bradshaw Whitaker, New Brunswick, N. J., "Specifications for a Deck Pratt Truss. Howard Edward White, Trenton, N. J., "A Discussion of One Truss of the Bellefontaine Bridge." Miller Royal Whitenack, Newark, N. J., "Histology of the Parotid Salivary Gland of the Cat." Gustav Frederick Wittig, New Brunswick, N. J., "A System of Sewage Disposal for Milltown, New Jersey." |