new professor is greatly needed, as it is also one for which the College has excellent facilities, among which one of the most important is the great hydraulic laboratory. The Faculty of the College and the whole University community welcome Director Haskell back to his Alma Mater.

The second important event in the College of Civil Engineering is the assignment to it of the whole of Lincoln Hall, of which more than one third has hitherto been occupied by the College of Architecture. "The College of Civil Engineering," says Professor Crandall in his report (Appendix X), "can be made fairly comfortable for a few years in Lincoln Hall, by refitting the building so as to adapt it to the changed conditions." And these changes in Lincoln the building committee have made during the summer vacation.

The attendance shows a satisfactory increase. The enrollment of undergraduates was 385 in 1904-1905, and it rose to 425 in 1905-1906. Of the new students entering in 1905 not fewer than nineteen were assigned to classes above the freshman; of course they were advanced students or graduates from other colleges,-a class which in increasing numbers come to Cornell University.

The increase made last year in the staff of instruction, for the purpose of securing more thorough teaching by means of smaller sections, has, reports Professor Crandall, made the work of the year "extremely satisfactory ", and, he adds, "it has been enjoyed by both Faculty and students." Professor Ogden had a leave of absence for the second term, which he devoted to the study of sewage disposal plants and the actual practice of his profession.

The question of establishing a course in mining, as recommended by the Faculty two years ago, should be settled one way or the other at an early date now that the advice of the new Director will be available.

There are also other branches of engineering important in modern practice for which provision should be made in the College of Civil Engineering if it is to be an institution of the highest grade, subserving the scientific needs of contemporary engineering in America. Existing departments

also stand in need of reinforcement and development, especially in the direction of substituting professorships for instructorships. An endowment of $100,000 would found one professorship. A gift of $500,000 would put this College on the higher plane of service to which it aspires, and which is demanded by the problems which modern engineering is called upon to solve. It is especially to secure men, men qualified to teach the scientific engineering of the twentieth century, that such an endowment, if received, should be used.

(8) In the Sibley College of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanic Arts, Director Smith continues with undiminished devotion and success the leadership so long exercised by his distinguished predecessor. The normal and usual work of the college must, for lack of room, be passed over in silence; it must suffice to note the most important changes and indications of growth and needs for expansion.

With the strictest enforcement of the requirements for admission and promotion from year to year, the attendance was kept at 1,096, which is 36 more than that of 1904-1905. This is a very large College, and one of the problems created by its rapid growth is the increasing difficulty of complete social intercourse among the students themselves and between the students and the members of the Faculty. Yet personal intercourse outside of the class room is recognized by the faculties of all the colleges of Cornell University as an essential factor, not merely in the training of intellect but in the development of manhood. Just at a time when in the College of Arts and Sciences, which ranks

next in size to Sibley College, the division of Arts moves into Goldwin Smith Hall (which will greatly facilitate social intercourse and personal conferences between students and teachers), it would be unendurable to have any diminution of that helpful influence in any other college of the University. In Sibley College with over 1,000 students, however, some kind of organization will be necessary if social intercourse is to be as general and as cordial as it used to be when the students of the college were counted by hundreds. It is proposed, therefore, to have one of the rooms of the college set apart as a club room, to be kept open probably every evening, where students may come together with a certainty of finding some members of the Faculty ready to join them in conversation, singing, or other forms of social intercourse. For the present the reading room, which it is proposed to establish in one of the rooms vacated by the removal of the department of electrical engineering to Franklin Hall, might be used as a club room in the evening. It would need no additional provision to make it available for the purpose except, indeed, the use of light.

The increase of the attendance in Sibley College has made it impossible longer to house all the departments of the College in the present building, which the College owes to the generosity of the late Hiram Sibley and of his son, Hiram W. Sibley. The removal of the department of physics to Rockefeller Hall left Franklin Hall vacant, and, though several of the science departments of the University desired to secure it, and some of them had claims of great weight, the Trustees felt the exigency in Sibley College so grave that they made the temporary arrangement indicated in the following resolution :

"Resolved, That Franklin Hall, with the exception of the aforesaid upper story [reserved for the College of Architecture], be, until other provision is made for the accommodation of Sibley College, temporarily placed at the disposal of Sibley College for the accommodation of its department of electrical engineering."

The basement of Franklin will be used for the laboratories in experimental electrical engineering, especially for experimental work in connection with the operation of steam and electric railways, while the two floors above will be devoted to the class rooms, laboratories, designing rooms, and offices of the department of electrical engineering. The arrangement is good enough as a temporary one. But it has two drawbacks. First, it takes one of the great departments of Sibley College from underneath the roof of Sibley College and, secondly, it postpones recognition of the needs and claims of other departments of Cornell University.

It was, however, impossible for the University to furnish accommodation for another department in Sibley College which has outgrown its present quarters. This is the department of mechanic arts. The immediate need is of a commodious building, but of simple design and inexpensive construction, to accommodate at least a machine shop and a wood shop. The mechanical laboratory, which has asked repeatedly for a new building, would then expand into the rooms now occupied by the machine shop and wood shop. This is an economical and satisfactory solution of the present problem, which is a most urgent one. It would postpone for some time the larger and more costly plan of the new mechanical laboratory for which the late Director Thurston actually had plans prepared.

Improvements have been made in the internal economy of Sibley College. The department of drawing had already been consolidated with the department of machine design, and last year the department of machine construction was combined with that consolidated department. It was also decided that in the future descriptive geometry (which has heretofore been taken by Sibley students in the College of Civil Engineering) should be given in Sibley College by the department of machine design. In these and all other

changes the Faculty has (to quote the words of the Director) "had constantly in mind that, while one of the most important things in a school of mechanical engineering is to keep in constant touch with practice, the most important thing of all is that the training in theory shall be sound. The effort to turn out men so trained that they are ready to solve engineering problems according to the best methods of modern practice can only succeed if the principles that underlie all engineering are taught thoroughly and completely."

Such an aim, however, can be accomplished in a college of more than a thousand students only by the agency of a large, able, and well trained staff of professors assisted by the necessary complement of instructors. The greatest

need of the College is an addition of several new professors to the Faculty, and for those professorships endowments of $100,000 each are the first condition. The one most imperatively and immediately demanded by the actual conditions is a professorship of electrical engineering.

(9) In the Summer Session there was an enrollment of 642 students, a gain of 23 over that of last year. But there were fewer conditioned students of the academic year 1905-1906, and the number of teachers in attendance rose from 218 in the summer of 1905 to 265 in the summer of 1906. Of these 265 teachers 27 were from colleges, 15 from normal and training schools, 96 from high schools, 95 from grammar and elementary schools, and 26 from private schools. Six superintendents were also enrolled. The attendence as a whole had a geographical distribution of 40 states and 16 foreign countries. As the school was larger than ever before, so also the Faculty report a better class of students and a higher grade of work. Details will be found in the Director's report (Appendix XII). Professor Bristol's administration of the Summer Session has fully