Board of Regents Minutes, Volume III, 1-25
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Grand Forks DT. Febry 7/88
Pursuant to the call of the President the Board of Regents met at the Office of the Secretary Present. Regents Fulton, Heidel, Roach and Twamley. The minutes of the Execution Committee were read and all business heretofore transacted by them was approved.
Bills.
The following bills were considered audited and vouchers ordered drawn in the respective accounts to wit.
Henry A Ward. Museum. $227.40
Thomas White Fuel and Lights. $891.45
D.M. Holmes & Co. Apparatus. $106.29
Henry Goheen D.O. $30.00
H. Montgomery Museum. $5.33
D.M. Holmes & Co. Incidentals. $12.00
C.E. Heidel. Genl Fund. $27.80
Thomas Hennessy the contractor for plumbing and steam heating being present, the Board proceeded to the consideration of his bill for extras etc. The balance due in his original contract to the amount of $59952 was ordered paid and voucher directed drawn on the “Dormitory” fund. His bill of extras was allowed at the sum of one thousand four hundred fifty three and 33/100 Dollars and a certificate of indebtedness to be signed for the President and attested by the Secretary with the seal attached was directed to issue as follows. The Board of Regents of the University of North Dakota, hereby acknowledges itself indebted to Thomas Hennessy in the sum of Fourteen hundred and fifty three and 33/100 Dollars. This certificate of indebtedness is issued in accordance with a settlement made between the Board of Regents this 8” day of Febry 1888 for certain plumbing and steam heating works done by said Hennessy in the Dormitory building of said University. Said sum of $145333 is due and payable and the Board of Regents promises to pay the same when the Legislation Assembly of the
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Territory of Dakota shall make an appropriation for the payment of the same.
Which settlement was on the 8th [9th written over] day of Febry 1888 accepted by said Hennessy and voucher for $59952 and certificate for $145333 issued and delivered to him.
The Board took up the bill of extras of D.M. Micol and after an exhaustin [sic] examination of the items named therein and a full expression of the views of the Board, it was voted to settle with him as follows. Viz.
Allow balance due on the Dormitory contract. $829.06
Allow balance due on Repairs to Main
Building at $53353 and retain for floor in the
Bider room $4353 490.
Allow balance in fence contract. 345.80
Allow for extra work in the “Dormitory” 4000.00
Total. 5664 86
The following bills were considered audited and allowed and ordered paid out of the Special Repair Fund. J.E. Dow. $24.00 Wm Budge $103655
A.G. Johnson & Co. $94.30. J.E. Byrne $1500. T.J. Richardson $3700 R.B. Griffith $33807
Mr M Micol on the 9th day of February 1888 notified the Board that he would not accept the settlement proffered by the Board and on motion the Board adjourned subject to the call of the President.
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Grand Forks DT. April 28 1888.
Pursuant to call of the President, the Board of Regents met at the office of the Secretary, Present Regents Roach, Heidel, Twamley, Fulton.
The bill of Thomas White for wood amounting to $66700 was allowed and voucher ordered drawn on the Fuel & Sights account – all aye.
The observatory account of $1350 held by the Grand Forks Natl Bank was ordered settled out of the Students Incidental Account, when funds are available. Adjourned subject to call of the President.
Jno G Hamilton
Secr.
Grand Forks, D.T.
May 31 st 1888.
The Board of Regents met at the office of the Secretary. Present Regents Roach, Fulton, Heidel Twamley.
A communication was presented from Pres. Sprague relative to the course of study.
Mr Twamley moved that the course of study as adopted by the faculty and approved by the Chairman of the Library Committee be adopted. Motion prevailed all aye. Mr Fulton moved that Messrs Roach Twamley and Heidel be appointed a committee to make arrangements for boarding the students at the University for the ensuing year. Motion prevailed, all aye.
Mr Twamley moved that the contract for printing the
catalogue be awarded the Plaindealer at $7000 per M
Catalogue to be ready in seven days which motion prevailed.
The bill of W.S. Russell for $5950 was referred to the Chairman Executive Committee to instigate and report at next meeting.
The bill of C.E. Heidel for $8250 was allowed and ordered paid out of the General Fund. All voting aye.
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Mr Twamley presented the following resolution which was unanimously adopted and the Secretary was directed to transmit a copy thereof to Prof. Montgomery.
The Board of Regents has learned with exceeding
regret of the illness of Prof. Henry Montgomery and desires to extend this
expression of its sincere sympathy and the express the hope that he will
soon again be in the enjoyment of his usual good health and strength.
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Grand Forks D.T. June 5 th 1888.
The annual meeting of the Board of Regents was held at the office of the Secretary. Present Regent Fulton – there being no quorum the Board was adjourned to meet June 15” 1888 at 730 P.M.
J G Hamilton.
Secry.
Grand Forks D.T.
June 12” 1888.
The adjourned annual meeting was held at the office of the Secretary. Present Regents Roach, Twamley, Fulton and Heidel
Mr Twamley moved that Homer B Sprague be elected permanent President of the University at a salary of three thousand dollars per annum motion prevailed, all voting aye.
Also that Ludwic Estes having received the unanimous endorsement of the Faculty, be and he is hereby elected as Professor of Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy at a salary of two thousand dollars a year to begin October 15 1888, all aye.
That Prof H.B. Woodworth be assigned to the Chair of Didactics, Mental & Moral Science and Principal of the Normal Department at a salary of [written above: $2000 per annum]. The Bill of Mooney & Danaher of $4430 was allowed and ordered paid out of the Special Repairs Fund – all aye. The Collins & Murphy account for coal ordered paid out of the Special Repair Fund, all aye. Margaret Boasberg Teacher of Music [written above: & Drawing salary of $80 per month] The requisition for the Boiler Room & Janitor was referred to Regent Twamley to purchase as soon as possible – all aye.
Adjourned to June 25”/88. On motion the following appointments were made & confirmed viz. Henry Montgomery Professor of Natural Sciences Salary $2350 per annum. Webster Merrifield Prof Latin & Greek Languages Secretary Faculty, Salary $210000 per annum. John Macnie Professor French & German Salary $2000 Jannie allow matron etc. salary $900. Coral E. Smith Instructor Univ Cuttin [sic] etc salary $7000 per month. J A Guy of Engineer etc. Salary $65 per moth from April to November - & $85 Thereflio [sic]. J G Hamilton Secry etc Salary $1000 per year Walter J Marday assist librarians. Salary $10 per moth
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Grand Forks D.T. Jun 25 1888.
Pursuant to adjournment the Board met at the office of Regent Fulton. Present Regents Roach Fulton, Twamly and
Mr Twamley moved that Margaret Boasberg be employed as teacher of Music & Drawing and such other branches as the Faculty may assign at a salary of $80000 per annum to begin October 1st 1888. All aye.
Bills.
The following bills were audited and allowed and ordered charged to the respective accounts, all voting aye
Thomas White $4800 Incidentals
Hugh Frazeir $4512 DO.
W.S. Begg $3069 & 1495 Engineers Firemen etc.
City of Grand Forks $6246 Water Supply
W H Brown & Son. $3150 Incidentals
Noyeo Bros & Centler $2300 Museum.
F.W. Iddings $36002 Library.
Collins & Murphy 905 Students Incidental
H .B. Sprague $2350 DO DO
Voucher 908# was ordered canceled and the amount $3560 ordered paid out of the Special Repairs Fund. All aye.
The reports of Prest Sprague & Profs Merrifield, Macnie, Woodworth & Misses Smith & Allen were read and ordered spread on the records of the Board. All aye.
The bill of Adrian Laberet [inserted above: for $6000] was referred to the President for report.
Certificate as to the appointment of B.E. Ingenaldsen ordered sent to the Auditor.
Requisition for supplies for Main Building referred to Twamley to purchase
Reports.
Pres Sprague:
I have the honor to submit the accompanying Reports of work in the different departments and classes for the University year were about closing, and I embrace the opportunity to add
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further remarks in the condition and the needs of the Institution.
We have had during the year ninety eight students.
Of these five were Juniors, Nine Sophomores, Thirteen Freshmen, Twenty eight Normal, Thirty two in the Preparatory Department and Eleven specials in classified.
The number last year was Seventy five.
Although during a portion of the year there was much sickness in Grand Forks, the health of our students has on the whole been good, and there have been no cases of dangerous illness among them.
Our Professors and Instructors with the exception of Prof Montgomery, have enjoyed excellent health.
The multiplicity of his cares and duties together with his customary painstaking and conscientious devotion to all the details of his work, so taxed his strength that he found it necessary to be absent during the work ending March 3rd and has not been able to be present since May 1st. By his nomination and in the reconsideration of the Faculty, you authorized W.D. Herrimon a former student of the University to take charge of two of Prof Montomery’s classes during his absence, viz. The Senior Preparatory Class, two hours a week in Physiology and one in Physical Geography and the Freshman class three hours a week in Laboratory practice. Professors Merrifield, Woodworth and Macnie and myself have each taken charge of some of the students that would have been regularly under Prof. Montgomery’s instruction.
The conduct of the students has in general been praiseworthy. Rarely has a better disposed company of young people been assembled in College or University Few rules have been found necessary.
The principle of self government has been utilized to some extent. For instance, by a majority of two some, the young men resident in the University voted, when the question was submitted to them, to prohibit all visitation by one another of their rooms after ten.
It was a free and spontaneous expression of their vistas for the mode of voting was such that no one could know
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how any other voted, but only the aggregate of ballots pro & con. Through the efforts of the Regents valuable apparatus has been furnished us, and important additions have been made to our Library. The accompanying report of the Librarian shows the latter. The apparatus for Calisthenics and Gymnastics have been in almost daily use since the beginning of the winter term, though under great disadvantages for want of a room furnished off for the purpose. An admirable beginning for a Physical Laboratory has been made by the purchase of choice apparatus costing nearly nine hundred dollars.
The equipment of the Chemical Laboratory and of the Museum has been largely increased. Forty muskets for military drill have been supplied and others are promised.
As the detailed reports of the Professors and Instructors show, the progress in study has been satisfactory in the case of those students who came at the beginning of the Fall term and have remained till the present time.
Grad work has been done in every instance, even by those who have been with us a little time, yet it has been almost painful to observe the disadvantages and losses to which large numbers have been subjected by reason of their reason of coming to us late, after their classes had been under instruction for weeks or moths, or learning us early, long before their studies were completed.
The New Dormitory, for which we had been waiting during the Fall term, was sufficiently near completion to permit our occupancy of it at the close of the Christmas and New Years holidays. The families of the President and Military Instructor, the Matron and Twenty four of our Lady students besides servants, have had rooms in it. Without this accommodation, we should all have been subjected to very great discomfort. The attic although partially floored, has done good services as a gymnasium for both sexes. Such rooms for Physical exercise are of very great importance, especially for girls. I beg to recommend strongly that the flooring be completed, that Dormer windows be inserted, and that ten or twelve rooms for female students be furnished off in the attic.
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There would still be left abundant space for a girls gymnasium in the Central portion.
The water pipes and hose, needed for protection against fire, have not been put in their proper places in the Dormitory. I would recommend that this be done at once, and that fire-extinguishers and buckets containing water be placed in convenient positions for use both the Dormitory and in the Main building.
The projected main [blacked out word] Cast work sirenly [?? check spelling] listed the roof & walls of the Dormitory. Through min [?? check spelling] thaw a dorm places, it found its way, damaging the ceilings & p--tacing [?? check spelling] inconrsmince [?? check spelling]. To a less extent the same was true of the Main Building
During the past winter it has oftened [sic?] happened that the rooms on one side of the Main Building were very Cold, while those on the other side were at the same time greatly overheated. It depended on the direction of the wind. I recommend that storm windows, with proper slides for ventilation, be supplied irherim [?? check spelling] they are now lacking in the Main Building.
Still run [?? check spelling] important is that same arrangement be made whereby the steam heat could be shutt [sic] off from either side at pleasure, and concentrated on the other side.
Both health and comfort require it, and it would certainly be a step in the direction of economy. The Janitor has investigated the matter, and he asserts that the expense of the necessary pipes and connections, cuttoffs [sic] etc would not exceed one hundred dollars. The saving of fuel in a single winter would repay this thricefold, to say nothing of the relief from excessive heat and cold.
The Main Building in the last season has furnished lodgings and study rooms for many fine young men. It was never designed for such a purpose, but for class rooms, lecture rooms, laboratories, Professors private rooms, etc, and every year it is becoming more needed for the uses originally intended. I suppose that it must be occupied for Dormitory purposes another season, but the time cannot be distant when a separate building lodgings for the male students will be indispensable I would respectfully submit for your consideration
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the property of petitioning the next legislation for an appropriation for such building.
Grounds & Plant-ing of trees The grounds are in tolerable order, with slight exceptions which a few days labor will correct. They can be made very beautiful by the expenditure of a few weeks work.
Walks and drives need to be made around the Dormitory. Some levelings should be done and grass seed sown, hitching posts set and water troughs constructed. The discussd [sic] outbuilding should be moved to a point in the fence midway in rear of the Dormitory, its distinctive features obliterated & it should be made into a shed in which wood might be cut, tools stored etc.
By the courtesy of Regent Twamley I was permitted to take trees from his farm. These I set out on Arbor Day on the South side of the Main Building. Others I purchased. A number were donated to us from the Grand Forks & Crookston Nursery. Mr Haseltine, who, as I understand, set out trees on the premises a year ago, has this spring replaced with new ones three hundred twenty five that were dead. In all this work of transplanting trees, I desire to commend the Janitor for his zeal and efficiency.
Some of the students have also voluntarily rendered assistance in this matter.
There is a great & increasing need of a Station House, or at least of some shelter, Railway Stations recommends at the Railway Station nearest the University. This need has been repeatedly & keenly felt during the past season, especially when a student prostrated by sickness has been compelled to wait for the train a long time in the intense cold. I beg to recommend for your consideration the propriety of an attempt to induce the Railway Company to erect a suitable structure there before cold weather comes again.
Telegraph Communication A telegraphic or telephonic connection with Grand Forks should be established at once. More than once during the past winter it was necessary to send a special Grand Forks messenger there at midnight or later, for a Physician.
The most serious consequence may follow from the lack of instant communication with the city in case of fire or other emergencies liable to occur, and as our numbers increase, the danger increases.
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Sprague St P M & M RR Co. train I desire to suggest for your consideration also, the question of the expediency of making another attempt to induce the St. Paul M & M RR Co to run a Passenger train from Grand Forks to the University Daily at 9 oclock in the morning. There is an afternoon train from the University to the City at about half past three. Such morning car would supersede altogether the necessity a stage or omnibus. I am the man hopeful that such attempt would meet with success from the fact that, when the Conductors had repeatedly refused to stop their trains at our station, the railway authorities in my petition ordered all their passenger trains to stop here whenever requested or signaled.
Courses of Study and changes made The courses of Study have been carefully revised and enlarged by the Faculty, to make them conform more closely to the requirements of the Charter, the needs of students particularly of the next years Senior Class, the means at the command of the Institution and the usage and universities around us. The plan in all its details has been approved by the proper Committee of the Regents and will appear in the new catalogue. It is not likely that we shall be able to conform fully to the standard set up, but it is best to have an ideal and we hope to come not far short of its attainment. The principle changes are the insertion of an additional preparatory year, the requirement for some students of a certain amount of Greek, the introduction of music and drawing.
The increase in the amount of English and other languages and literatures in a course of letters, the postponement to a later date of the choice of Courses and greater [definitefs] as to the work of the highest of Senior Class.
In the main features we had constantly in mind the practical working of the programme [sic] and the needs of the students, striving to avoid the requirement of an impossible degree of scholarship on the one hand, and on the other yielding to the temptations to superficiality for the sake of the mere numbers and the short lived popularity.
While, in accordance with the usage that has prevailed hitherto, we very gladly receive all special students, who can join in our exercises with profit to themselves & without detriment to the regular classes.
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Courses of Study. we yet endeavor to encourage thoroughness by requiring all Candidates for Degrees
to take one of the regular courses. The courses in Arts
emphasizes the studies which have hitherto usually been included under that head in colleges; the course in Science,
Natural History, Natural Philosophy, and Mathematics, the course in
Letters, English & Modern Languages, literatures & Kindred Studies.
By giving, early in the training common to all the regular students, outside of the Normal Course, a taste of the Natural Sciences, of the classical languages, and of Mathematics and literature, on hope to lay in the minds of all students a broad & solid foundation of learning and by defining the choice among the courses to the beginning of the Second Collegiate year, we hope to ensure a wise selection as to the kind of superstructures.
The most numerously attended Department has been the preparatory. We shall continue to aim to make it profitable as we can to its members, but we earnestly desire that the time may soon [inserted above] come when we can remand all preparatory students to the Academics, the grammar schools, and the High Schools, and denote [illegible] wholly to the proper work of College & University.
Normal Dept. Next in number and perhaps first in importance, is the Normal department. We hope during the coming year to do better work in this direction than ever before, though much of that has been good. But we greatly need the help of a teacher trained in the most recent normal methods, and I hope very soon to be able, with the aid of the faculty, to name a candidate who shall combine with other excellencies this important qualification. I have also some reason to expect, that it will be found practicable with year concurrence & consent, to gather some of the children in this neighborhood into a little school, to be taught by some of our best Normal students, a model school of observation and practice under careful supervision. Such schools are regarded as an indispensable [adjunct] to many of the best Normal schools, and the advantage of such school to a young teacher can hardly be overestimated. I hardly need to add that the work of a Normal Dept should be strictly professional, and that it is of the greatest
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Prof of Math
etc Ludovic Estes
Instructor of Music importance
that, as soon as possible the necessity which now exists of going over ground
which should have been covered in the Common Schools, should cease I have
already expressed to the Regents my opinion, in which all of the Faculty
concur, that it will be impossible properly to carry on the work of the next year without an
additional Professor & they have unanimously voted to recommend the appointment of Mr Ludovic Estes as such Professor of Mathematics Physics & Astronomy. I hope that you will
see your way clear to take immediate and favorable action upon the subject.
Instructor
of
Music
Music
Hall at ObservatoryIt is also in the opinion of the Faculty in the highest degree desirable and they have
passed a vote to that effect that an instructor be appointed for vocal music
,drawing & Normal work. The vote was passed at Faculty meeting June 11 1888. It is the opinion of the Faculty that the such Instructor can be obtained at salary not
exceeding $800 per annum. I would suggest that one or
more of your number be appointed a committee with power to close with the most
eligible candidate.In this connection I beg to call your attention to the subject of providing proper rooms for musical
instruction and practice. One of your number has suggested that for the proposed Observatory,
of which the foundation had been laid a music hall be substituted. Experience has
shown that the extraordinary tremor of the ground from Railway trains passing in this vicinity, extends even to the site
in question, and would certainly prove a formidable obstacle to the successful use of delicately adjusted
Astronomical instruments requiring perfect immobility. A belief has been
expressed that the generous donor or donors to the Observatory fund might be
willing to make the change and erect the building without expense to the
Territory. If so, it would prove a happy solution of a perplexing problem -
viz. how to carry on the musical instruction & practice without disturbing
the quietness that is so essential in buildings containing large numbers of
students. So great & so lasting would be this benefit to the University
and to the cause of education from the possession of a handsome Music Hall,
that I venture to
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Location of Pianos
Changes in
Basement Main Building express the hope that no effort that promises success may be left untried. Such
building should bear the name or names of the donor or donors. and
the example might reasonably be expected to stimulate others to like deeds of enlightened
liberality and beneficence. But if, on reflection or investigation, this plan be found impracticable, I beg to
suggest that immediate steps be taken to prepare rooms for piano practice, either in the
basement of the main building or in the Attic of the Dormitory. So far as the convenience
of students is concerned, the latter would be preferable as most if not all of
the pupils in instrumental music would be young ladies. It would involve more
expense at first; but, as I have already
suggested, rooms are sure to be needed there ere long and the improvement would be of permanent value. If however, it be thought best to
learn Piano - practice in the Main building, then for the sake of avoiding or reducing to a minimum the disturbing sounds, I would recommended that the Regents consider the advisability of finishing off three rooms for the Janitor in
the east end of the basement, and using for other purposes the rooms he now occupies, two
of which would [assume] well for a reading room and a class-room and the third
and the Assembly Hall, for music, a Piano might also be placed in the room
opposite, now occupied as a class room by Miss Smith. A third might go into
the Assembly Hall itself, where it would be useful at the daily opening
exercises or on other public occasions. A fourth piano should be placed in the
Parlor of the Dormitory. These pianos would be sufficient for all the practice
of one instructors pupils.
Of course the rent of them would be paid by the students using them, until the University should choose to own them. The cost of making such changes in the basement would hardly exceed a hundred dollars. The Janitor is very desirous to make the changes, and would himself be able to do much of the work, such as laying the floors, building the partitions etc. There is force in the objection that will readily occur, that the space at the East end of the basement is needed for the storage of wood. I do not know how much importance to attach to the opinions of our Janitor, but he expresses in the most position terms his belief that coal is much cheaper than green wood, that it gives a far steadier heat and can be handled at less expense.
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the Regents are perfectly settled in their opinions on this print, it may be
well worth investigation. There were will be abundant room for from
fifty to a hundred tons of coal after taking the portion of space for the three
proposed rooms.
Military
Drill
Hall need Attic of Main
Building The Military drill, though somewhat delayed at first by a lack
of muskets and all along by the absence
of bayonets and accoutrements and the want of a suitable drill hall, has for
several months been more regular, and the effect has been good. Through the courtesy of Governor Church and at the urgent request of
the President of the Board of Regents, the Territory has furnished us forty muskets. Forty
others of a more suitable pattern have been promised us, and the Governor has assured me
that we can retain the [stuck
out:a] eighty. A Drill Hall is indispensable in the long winter and
for want of a better, I would Museum recommend either that the room over the
Museum be floored and a door cut through the suggested partition wall, or
that the attic of the main building be used. In either case two sky lights or
downer windows would be needed and one steam coil. On the [seen] of expense
the attic of the Main Building would be preferable, and it would also serve as
a Gymnasium for the Young men.
There is need of such separate gymnasium in the Main building. It is both inconvenient for the young men to go to the top of the Dormitory building, and it is very annoying to the occupants of the Dormitory to have the gymnastic exercises taking place over head. With your lean, I propose to move the hearing gymnastic apparatus, specially intended for the young men, into the top of the Main Building and to make under the North roof a bowling Alley for which the place is admirably adapted. I trust that the Board, or at least the Committee on buildings, will look into the feasability [sic] of these plans and authorized as soon as practicable such action as shall seem to them expedient. The mention of gymnastic exercises reminds me that an Athletic Association has been formed among the students, & a suitable tract of ground has been carefully prepared at the expense of the President, Professors & Instructors for out door sports. A Field day was appointed and I offered prizes for superiority in some forty different kinds of Physical exercises but the protracted & soaking rains unfortunately necessitated a postponement
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Societies
& their work.
Sunday Lectures Two
new literary societies, the Normal and the [Per] Grades have been organized among the Students during the past season. These
and the previously existing Adelphi Society, have done good work and are likely to be
permanent. Instruction
in Elocation with drill in public speaking has been imparted by Miss Smith and myself, and the students have been required
to speak or read in public after private rehearsal. Herein as well as in Essay
writing and debate, the work of the literary societies has been recognized, and
credit given for faithful and meritorious performances, whether in the Assembly
rooms or the Society Halls. It being at times impossible, during the winter months for the students generally to attend divine services on Sundays with any regularity it
seemed best to me, after consultation
with the other Professors, to give a series of Sunday afternoon talks on great moral & religious poems to
such students, resident at the University as chose to attend them. There were thirteen of these discourses. They were
of course entirely unsectarian. I think they served to carry to many students
a better idea than they otherwise would have had of some of the master pieces
of our literature.
Plan of moral Instruction SuggestedTo meet the want of moral instruction at the University, I beg to submit for your consideration a plan which, it has occurred to me, might perhaps be adopted with most beneficial effect and without expense to the Territory.
It is, to invite Clergyman of all the different religious denominations at Grand Forks & vicinity to preach or lecture at the University on successive Sunday afternoons during the inclement season. Such a course, it is likely would prove conciliatory of all Sects and parties, and be of great value to the Students.
Students magazineIt may be worth while for me to mention here what might perhaps what might perhaps [repeated] have been spoken of with sure propriety earlier in this Report, the establishment of a monthly magazine. For a long time, it had seemed to me [inserted above] desirable to publish such a periodical as a means of encouraging Composition among the students, and perhaps, to some extent, as an organ of the University. After bringing the matter up in Several Faculty meetings and also in assemblies of students, I requested the Faculty to appoint four editors and the students to elect four associate editors. The result you have seen
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SpragueConsidering the circumstances, the magazine will I think compare favorably with any
similar issue of any college or University. Several of the Professors and instructors have rendered very valuable assistance in making it a success. and I desire to thank them and the Regents for the aid encouragement they have given in this and in many other matters of interest to the University.
Board of StudentsThe
cost to the ['to the' written over illegible words] students for board in the
University having
been greater than at any other educational institution supported by the Territory, and having been found a to be a serious objection by many of our most worthy
pupils necessitating a briefer stay with us than we could wish, and deterring
many from attendance. arrangements have been made with your approbation looking
to a material reduction in the expense. For the trifling sum of two and a half
dollars per week without charge for tuition, rooms, fuel, lights or use of
laundry, they can have all the advantages of a thorough high school and
collegiate education.
General good condition In conclusion, I beg to congratulate the Regents of the University upon the general good condition and prospects of the Institution, and again to thank them most heartily, as well as my associates with the Instructional force for the great diligence, courtesy, kindness and harmony with which they have cooperated to secure this end. and I think the Territory is to be congratulated upon the fact, which I believe to be true and which reflects upon her distinguished honor, that nowhere, outside her geographical limits, is so generous, so bountiful a provision made by any government for the higher education of young men and young women.
I have the honor to be with great respect
Your Obed’t Servant
University of North Dakota Homer B. Sprague
June 11" 1888 Prest
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Sprague I have the honor herewith to submit to you my report of the classes under my especial instruction during the University year ending June 14, 1888.
It will be observed while I have adhered pretty closely to the work laid down in the catalogue, the classes have been able to accomplish more than the prescribed amount.
Junior Class
Sophomore Class This
work was not prescribed in the Catalogue, but was taken up, as an extra at their own request, Jany 9" 1888. 5 members including
one special student. I have a week at first, 2 hours after May 1st
Read critically the first four acts of Hamlet. with
one special and one normal student. 11 members. 2 hours a week. Read critically
38 stanzas. Canto 1. Book 1. Spencer's Fairie Queen. Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. 3 acts of Macbeth.
Freshman Class with 2 special and 2 normal students, 17 members, 2 hrs a week Read critically Chaucer's Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, less critically Scotts Lady of the Lake & 94 Pages of Hart’s Composition & Rhetoric. During a few weeks of the Fall term a few members of these classes read Greek. Xenophous Analasis, with me three hours a week.
Senior Prep and 2nd Yr Normal 26 members. 4 hrs a week, Read very critically Goldsmith's Deserted Village, Shakespeares Julius Caesar and the Merchant of Venice.
Junior Prep & 1st Yr Normal 25 members - 2 hours a week. Read critically Gray's Elegy, Bard, Progress of Poesy, Ode on Eton College etc Also Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice
I have the honor to be
Very Respectfully
Your Obed't Servant
Homer B Sprague
Universtiy of N.D. Prest
June 11"/88.
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Merrifield
Junior Class. I
submit herewith my annual report, sharing the number & condition of the
classes under my instruction, the subjects pursued and the nature and
amount of instruction givn [sic]. Latin. Instruction
was given in Latin to two members of the Junior Class. Comprising the arts section, three hours per
week during the Fall & Spring terms. The text used during the Fall term was [Jureuals] Satires & during the
Spring term was Plinn's letters. Slight attention was given to the application
of grammatical rules further than to call attention to such constructions
denoted from the usages of the writers of the Augustan Period. Special stress
was laid upon the style of the two writers read. the manners and customs of the
time and the leading events of contemporaneous history. In connection with
Plinn's Letters, slight reading in the class was introduced so far as was found
practicable.
Greek.
The Arts Section of the Junior class read the Apology and portions of the Critic of Plato three hours a week during the winter term. A consideration of the peculiarities of Construction, an analysis of the argument of the Apology and a study of the Constitution of the Athenian State, with special reference to the Judicial System, were made special features of the instruction
History and Constitution
Instruction in English history, having special reference to the growth of the English Constitution, was given to the Arts section of the class two hours per week during the first half of the year. The period covered was that from the accession of Edward III to the Victorian Era inclusive Instruction has been givn [sic] in the Constitution of the United States two hours per week during the latter half of the year to the Arts section of the class and since the illness of Prof Montgomery to the entire class.
Sophomore Class The catalogue as revised a year ago removed Greek from the Senior Prep Freshman & Sophomore Classes and relegated it as an optional study to the Junior & Senior years. At the earnest request of the parents of students who had begun the study of Greek and with the consent of the Regents, the study of Greek by the students of the Freshman & Sophomore Classes was resumed in Nove last In order to provide the desired instruction in that subject, it was found necessary to consolidate the Greek and Latin of the Sophomore
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Merrifield and Freshman years, an arrangement which was found to be practicable from the fact that the Freshmen Students had covered nearly as much ground in both subjects as the Sophomores had prior to the consolidation of the two classes in January, the Sophomore class had read, since the opening of the year, Bk III and the most of Bk IV of Virgils Aeneid.
Freshmen Class Latin: During the Fall term the Freshmen class read the most of Book II of the Heneid, in January the Sophomore & Freshmen Classes were combined and the consolidated class has since read Book V & VI of the Heneid, Instruction in Latin has been given to the members of this class, twelve in number, five hours a week throughout the year, one hour of this being devoted since January to Latin prose Compositions.
Greek The Consolidated Class num being seven students read Greek with the President during a few weeks of the Fall term, Since January they have read Greek under my instruction three hours per week, reading during that time the major portion of the first book of Zenophonis Anabusis.
Senior Prep Class Instruction in Latin has been given to some members of this Class five hours per week throughout the year. During this time the class has read the last half of Book I & the whole of Book II of Caesars Gallic War & Orations I II and the major part of III of Cicero's orations against Catiline together with the oration for Archias. I have also since January given instruction to 13 members of the Senior Prep Classical Roman History 2 hours a week covering the Period from the foundations of Rome to the fall of the Republic, With the Sophomore Freshmen Senior Prep; instruction in Greek & Latin grammar both chart form and in connection with the Greek & Latin text has been made on essential features of each daily exercises. Instruction in this Department has been given by Miss Allen to the beginning class in Latin 5 hours a week and I have given instruction in the subjects named 20 hours per week throughout the year The late coming & early departure of many students still continues to be a serious, though perhaps a diminishing evil. The present attendance in this department numbers 14 as against 29 at the time of fullest attendance
Respectfully Submitted
W. Merrifield
Prof in Charge
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Maenis
Junior Class
French I
here submit the required annual report of the numbers, studies and progress of
the classes under my
charge. The Junior class consisting of four members, has, in the course of the
past year, studied under me French, German, Physics and Mathematics as
follows. French, 4 hours a week from Octr. [8]/87 to
Febry 14/88. Besides a course of translations from English into French, the
class studied that part of L Allemague left over from last year and two plays
Les Fermes Sarantes the MisanthropeGerman 4 hrs of week from Octr 1st /87 to
July [February struck out] 14/88. Besides grammatical exercises and
translations from English into German, the class has read a large part
of Lessing & Larcoon and a play by messr. Der Bibles thekar
Mathematics, Five hours a week from Octr 1 to Decr 20/87, during which time the class went through [Loonis] Analytical Geometry of two dimensions. From Jany 3 till the end of the University year the class devoted two hours a week to Dana’s Mechanics & three hours to physics with such experiments & illustrations as the Apparatus on hand admitted
Sophomore Class Consisting of 10 members studied under me in the course of the year, French German & English History, as follows French, 4 hours a week from Feby 14 til June 14/88, besides revising Otto’s German grammar with daily written exercises the class read through a great part of Whitney's German Reader, including all the easier prose, almost all the verse and part of the more difficult prose.
History
Freshman Class
Senior Prep History 4
hours a week from Febry 14 till June 14 with latterly an extra hour each week.
During this time the class has studied the class has studied [repeated] the
first half of Freemans History of England as prescribed in the catalogue
[inserted] of ten members recited to me this year in French the arts division of
the class for 2 hrs & the Science division 3 hrs per week. Besides
revision of the grammar & written exercises the whole class read through & revised La France a french
book giving a [coreiso] account of France & its people, the Science
division read, in addition, the first two parts of the Historie de Charles XII. This class of 13 members recited to me
only in Greek History, one hour each week during the University year, the text book was Smiths History of Greece.
Respectfully Submitted
John Macnie
Prof in charge
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Woodworth The following is my Annual statement of work done in the department of Mathematics and in the Normal Department during the University year ending June 14 1888.
Sophomore Class Num being 9 have taken Plane and Spherical Trigonometry with applications in surveying, Mensurations & Navigation, a few weeks were also given to advanced work in algebra two of the class who are in the Arts Course took only the Plane Trigonometry with application to surveying. 4 hours a week were given to this work during the entire year & 5 hours for the last two months.
Freshman Class num being 12 have taken books IV – VII in Wentworth's Geometry and Algebra from Involution to Logarithms 4 hrs a week during the University year.
Senior Prep Normal Have taken the first III Books in Wentworth's Geometry & Algebra from the beginning to Involution 5 hrs a week during the year. 2 students in the third year normal remaining nearly through the year. They have had Outlines in History. 2 hrs a week the first half of the year, completing Ancient History. This class took Geometry and Algebra with the Freshman class going over the same ground also 2 hrs a week in Pedagogy & History of Pedagogy for nearly half of the year. Some time was also given to reviews and Theory & Practice of Teaching.
Second Normal Have taken with me two hours a week in review work, drill & Theory & Practice of Teaching & 3 hours a week in advanced Arithmetic.
First Normal Also had two hours a week in drill & Theory & Practice of 3 hours in advanced Arithmetic. The reports of other Professors and Instructors will show work done in other subjects by the normal students, most of those in the first & second years came as late as Nov. & left in April or May 1st ,enough remained to make the work of instruction about the same, Circumstances have made it absolutely necessary to combine, to some extent the first & second year Some help and appliances are very much needed in this department.
A requisition was made last Feby for a globe & some Outline maps but nothing has been heard from it. There is not even a set of cubical blocks for illustration. The department of the students in my relation to them, has been very satisfactory, and the earnestness & diligence manifested, commendable.
All of which is respectfully submitted
H. B. Woodworth
Prof in Charge.
