Dean and my honored colleague in the Faculty, Professor T. F. Crane, who has given of his time and his rich stores of experience without stint in counsel and assistance.

Respectfully submitted,

WALTER F. WILLCOX,

Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

APPENDIX IV

REPORT OF THE ACTING DIRECTOR OF THE
COLLEGE OF LAW

To the President of the University:

SIR-I have the honor to submit the report of the College of Law for the academic year 1906-1907.

Professor Huffcut, Director of the College and Dean of the Faculty, who was granted leave of absence for the second semester, carried on all his work during the first semester and in addition acted as legal adviser to Governor Higgins until January first. He then accepted a similar appointment from Governor Hughes, and after February 1st, when his leave of absence began, devoted himself entirely to the duties of that office. His sudden death May 4th, 1907, deprived both the University and the State of the services of a brilliant, brave and conscientious officer. While the loss falls most directly upon this College, it is shared by the entire University with which he had been connected as student, instructor or professor for more than twenty years, giving the best of a powerful intellect and noble character to its service.

Professor Woodruff was absent on leave during the first semester, returning February first. During the first term the courses heretofore conducted by Professor Woodruff were conducted by Professor Huffcut, Assistant Professor Bingham and Mr. Colson. During the second term Professor Huffcut's courses have been conducted by Assistant Professor Bingham who leaves us at the close of the current

year to accept a call from Leland Stanford Junior University. In the two years during which Professor Bingham has been a member of this Faculty, he has been called upon to teach a large variety of subjects and has performed his duties with uniform success, displaying high scholarship and keen insight. The Faculty parts with him with sincere regret.

The registration in the three classes since the full three-year course was in operation is shown in the following table:

Seniors Juniors First Year Special Total

Year

It will be observed that there is a decrease of 10 in the registration this year as compared with last, but that the senior class this year is smaller by 14, the first-year class showing a slight increase.

There have also been registered 25 students from other Colleges of the University, mainly from the College of Arts and Sciences. This is a decrease as compared with last year but so small as to indicate merely that the causes of decrease in this class of students noticed in former reports are probably permanent. Of the law stu dents I have received college degrees and 46 others have had one or more years of college work. The latter class has been increasing in numbers for several years. This points to a growing sense of the desirability of some kind of college work prior to the pursuit of professional study.

Of the 211 law students 62 came from outside the state of New York. Last year the number was 57 when the entire registration was somewhat larger.

The number of students in attendance May 1st, 1907, was 186. Of the 25 registered and no longer in attendance 17 voluntarily withdrew and 8 were dropped at the mid-year examinations for failure in work. These numbers are almost exactly the same as last year's.

In his report of last year, Dean Huffcut recommended some modification of the rule whereby a student dropped in one College in June might be permitted, under proper safeguards, to enter another

College, the following September. The Committee on University Policy, early in the current year, recommended to the different Colleges the following rule: " That the fact that a first year student has been dropped in one College of the University in June shall not disqualify him from entering another College of the University in the following September, provided that the Dean of the latter College is satisfied that the student's failure was due, not to neglect of work, but to a mistaken choice of his College." This rule was adopted by the College of Law subject to its adoption by the other Colleges.

The course of lectures offered by the President White School of History and Political Science and designated as course A was attended by the students of the College of Law very generally. These lectures aroused a great deal of interest in the subjects presented and exercised a very beneficial influence.

Last year attention was called to a more definite outlining of the four-year law course. A further step has been taken in this direction, and, beginning with the next academic year, students in the four-year course will take in their first year a single law course, the remainder of their work being in courses offered by the College of Arts and Sciences. The law course selected is that in torts, as being historically and essentially the most fundamental branch of civil law and the best adapted to the induction of students into methods of legal research and legal reasoning. Of the arts and science subjects two are required, English history and elementary economics. The remainder are elective but subject in each case to the approval of the Dean. In the second year the remainder of the first-year law subjects are required and the arts and science electives correspondingly reduced. The junior and senior years include the regular law work for the last two years of the three-year course. It is thought by the Faculty that this scheme is much better from a pedagogical standpoint than the combination of law and arts and science subjects during three years, and that the pursuit of subjects in arts and sciences almost exclusively for a year will afford much better preparation for professional study. It is expected that the result of this change will aid in determining whether a similar course should be exacted from all students entering the College without previous collegiate work.

The report of the librarian is herewith submitted. The continuance of the collection of American statute law has been the principal feature of the year. The growth of this collection has increased the usefulness of the library for our own students and has

entirely justified the prediction of Dean Huffcut that it would prove invaluable to students in history and political science. The daily use of the library by the students of that school has been very marked. I respectfully urge that means may be furnished speedily to complete this collection of statutes.

Respectfully submitted,

FRANK IRVINE,

Acting Director of the College of Law

APPENDIX V

REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE MEDICAL COLLEGE

To the President of the University:

SIR-I have the honor to submit the following report upon the work of the Medical College during the session for 1906–1907.

The department of medicine under the guidance of Professor Thompson has maintained its usual high standard and the results of teaching physical diagnosis to the third and fourth-year students in a graded course have been most satisfactory.

A similar plan for the instruction in surgical diagnosis has made the practical knowledge of our students at the time of graduation noticeably good in the competitive trials at the hospital examinations.

In recognition of the excellence of the work in the sub-department of clinical pathology, Dr. Hastings has been advanced to full professorial dignity. His methods and plans of instruction have been adopted in several other schools, and students from distant states and foreign countries are constantly applying for special courses in his department. The highly specialized clinical aids in diagnosis and therapeutics which have of late become so necessary in the practice of medicine are all handled in the laboratories under his direction and are no inconsiderable factor in publishing far and wide the fame and good name of the College. There have been thus

examined and reported upon nearly 5,000 specimens which have come for an authoritative opinion from physicians in this State and from others as far west as California and Arizona, as far south as Mexico and Panama and in the north from Canada.

The department of surgery, as mentioned above, continues to. broaden its practical teaching with excellent results, as shown in the competitive tests of our students with those from other institutions. In the near future there are definite expectations of the establishment of an animal hospital in which all the details of operative surgery can be practiced by advanced students. This branch of surgery is one of the most important and hitherto has been almost impossible to teach in the manner necessary to prepare the student for the difficulties which may confront him in any small town im mediately upon his entrance into the practice of his profession. The details of asepsis or absolute cleanliness in the treatment of wounds can only be acquired by experience which should be so great as to make their observance automatic. In the past the cadaver has always been used but this only instructs one in the rougher and less essential parts of the surgeon's work. In the living subject the delicacy of touch and the observance of what appear to the lay mind minor matters are really the essentials, and can only be acquired by the observation of the bad results which follow their neglect. An animal hospital provides many animals which otherwise would perish miserably, and for these creatures it is designed to supply the skill obtained from a chief veterinary and the assistants in the surgical department, who will treat their charges so far as possible exactly as human beings in the same diseased predicament. Those animals which require surgical interference will be anesthetized and operated upon by the surgical staff under every antiseptic and aseptic precaution, and the students as they acquire proficiency will participate in the procedures. Such a training, it is expected, will prove a vast advance upon the practice of using dead bodies and should result in greater usefulness in our graduates.

The department of physiology, since the retirement of Professor Flint, has been in charge of Assistant Professor Hartwell and I am pleased to report has shown no deterioration. On the contrary the practical teaching by experiments before the class has been increased and the demonstrations of the cardinal facts in this science have Occupied 105 hours. These expositions of the normal events in respiration, circulation, excretion, etc., have been supplemented by the participation in them of Dr. Hatcher, the assistant professor of