forward for the spring semester. During the last two years the spring semester has shown an increase of about twenty per cent over the attendance during the fall, and it would be only legitimate to expect a similar increase in the spring of 1907. The class lists in the Department of Domestic Science in the fall of 1906 total 350, as against 221 in the fall of 1905. The class enrollment for the spring of 1907 will be at least 350, and adding to this our 20 per cent increase will give us a class enrollment of 420, or a total class enrollment for the year of 1906-07 of 770, as opposed to 483 for the year 1905-06. Several new courses have been added; second semester work in dietaries, second semester work in home sanitation, and two semesters work in the theory and practice of teaching domestic art. Several courses have been made optional instead of required for the simple reason that we have no laboratory in which to offer the work. We have in this department 15 laboratories and 12 recitations per week. This means that our laboratories are worked to the fullest extent and we are wondering what will happen to us next semester when our work will demand at least two more laboratory periods. I take the liberty of quoting to you from the last Biennial Report: "At present the domestic science department is scattered, having one laboratory in the attic of the old hall of agriculture and another in the rear of Margaret hall in an old, dilapidated, dark and inaccessible building. This extremely necessary and important work deserves and should have such accommodations as are proposed in the new building (hall of agriculture) as soon as they can be furnished." We are still in the same attic and dilapidated building with no relief in sight because of the remodeling of the plans for the hall of agriculture. We will not be accommodated in that building and we must have room, and not only room but quarters that are presentable. There is great need of a building to accommodate this work. We hope this will be a reality in the near future. Plans have been outlined for such a building and we feel that the work in home making should be of enough importance to the people of Iowa to warrant the carrying out of these plans. Respectfully, (Signed) GEORGETTA WITTER. The College authorities, having engaged the services of Olmsted Brothers of Boston to advise with them concerning landscape questions and the erection of buildings, received from Mr. John Olmsted, who spent considerable time at the College, a preliminary report in which he strongly urged that massive and imposing buildings, such as those now being erected, should no longer be placed at hap-hazard upon the campus but should stand in formal relations with one another. His recommendations were such as to preserve, so far as possible, the park features of the beautiful campus and yet not leave the buildings in "staggered" relations. In accordance with Mr. Olmsted's views, the Trustees have located the site for the new Hall of Agriculture on an axis with Central Building and on the west side of the campus, leaving space for parking and opportunity for location of other buildings both on the east and west sides of the campus and leaving the central and south campus free from the encroachment of buildings. Mr. Olmsted also urged the removal of the motor railway line from the central campus to a location north of Agricultural and Margaret Halls. MOTOR LINE AND ELECTRIC RAILWAY. By act of the Legislature of 1906 right of way across the campus for an electric railway was granted to the Des Moines, Fort Dodge & Southern Railway, the Executive Council being authorized to determine the location and conditions upon which the franchise should be granted. The contract for this improvement has now been signed and the grading is under way, which will give the College rapid transit service between the College and Ames and to Des Moines and other connection points. CEMENT WALKS, GRADING, AND IMPROVEMENT OF CAMPUS. By careful husbanding of the pro rata for the partial quarter between the passage of the last appropriation bills and the 30th of June, 1906, one thousand dollars was set aside for sidewalk construction. This, together with certain subscriptions from residents west of the campus, has enabled the College to build a six-foot cement sidewalk from the front and by the south end of Engineering Hall to the Engineering Shops and thence along the driveway past old Engineering Hall to the west gate. This is a much needed improvement but still leaves the grading around Central Building unfinished and makes no provision for the grading between Central Building and Engineering Hall or for the grading around the new Hall of Agriculture or for the construction of sidewalks on other parts of the campus. One mile of sidewalks in all are still needed. Acting under the advice of the landscape architect, the athletic grounds, which of necessity should be changed, will be located on the southwest quarter of the campus. Some grading has already been done and the balance of the grading should be done at as early a date as practicable that the grounds may settle and be ready for use when needed. Professor Marston furnishes the following estimate of funds needed for sidewalk construction and grading. DEAR PRESIDENT STORMS: I have gone over the estimate of sidewalks and grading and would recommend that the College ask of the Legislature $4,000 for the construction of sidewalks and $2,000 for grading around Central building and Agricultural hall. I would also suggest the advis- (Signed) A. MARSTON, College Engineer. The College Park, consisting of a tract of several acres of rough and picturesque land on the south side of the right of way of the North-Western Railway and west of the College farm, is at present in a very unsightly condition. There should be sufficient expenditure to put this woodland park in proper condition, and also to improve the College cemetery where rest the remains of President Welch, President Beardshear, and others whose names are associated with the history of the College in its past. It would require at least two thousand dollars to make suitable improvements on these grounds. CENTRAL HEATING AND POWER PLANT. Professor Bissell furnishes the following estimate of the cost of completion of the heating and power plant: MY DEAR DR. STORMS: In response to your request for an estimate of the cost of the completion of the new central heating plant and distributing system, or at least such portion thereof as will have to be finished during the next biennial period, I am advising you as follows: Tunnel System: The tunnel system, comprising 1,000 feet of tunnel equipped with 14-inch steam pipe, 800 feet with 12-inch pipe, 700 feet with 10-inch pipe, 600 feet with 8-inch pipe, and 600 feet of branch tunnel, will cost, on the basis of the present prices, $54,295, complete with return pipe, compressed air, vaccuum and electric service wires. Power Station Equipment: The additional power station equipment required to make it possible to use the new central heating plant to the exclusion of the old will require the following expenditures: One engine generator, $10,000; 1,000-horsepower of boilers and stokers, $20,000; induced draft apparatus, $1,500; coal and ash conveyor system, $10,000; auxiliary apparatus, $4,700; total for this item, $46,200. This gives a grand total of $100,495 as the amount which ought to be provided in order to complete the central heating and power station for service to the college buildings now in use and to the new Agricultural hall. Respectfully submitted, (Signed) G. W. BISSELL, Professor of Mech. Eng. WATER SUPPLY. Professor Marston furnishes the following data concerning the College water supply. The present supply is derived from two sources: One is the college artesian well, 2,215 feet deep, located adjoining the old power station. At this point is a power deep well pump which lifts the water from a point 250 feet below the surface to the college elevated tank, the flow line of which is about 150 feet above the pump. The work is very heavy, owing to the high lift, and the pump, although of an efficient type, is frequently breaking down. We have found that it is not reliable enough nor does it have sufficient capacity to supply the college needs. The other source of supply is from a shallow well located northeast of the farm barns on the site of an old spring. At this point is located a triplex pump driven by an electric motor, the pump being within suction reach of the water. This pump gives satisfactory service but is too small to meet our full needs and it is useless to increase its size materially because the amount of water to be produced from this shallow well is limited. It frequently proves insufficient to supply our wants. During the present season the united capacity of these two pumping stations has proved insufficient to supply the college demands and it has been necessary to hire a traction engine to supply steam and to put in a deep well pump on an old deep well not far east of the shallow well above mentioned. It is now plainly evident that it has become absolutely necessary to increase our water supply facilities. At the site of the deep well the supply can be increased by putting in a large surface reservoir to which the water can be lifted from the deep well by an air lift pump, or by some other efficient type of pumping machinery. There should be located here a second pump to lift the water from the surface reservoir to the elevated tank. Or, at the site of the shallow well, if borings to be made in the future should determine that sufficient water could be obtained within suction range of the surface, a large circular well, serving also as a reservoir, could be constructed and a larger pump installed. With either of the above arrangements added fire protection would be secured from the pumps. The present situation is somewhat desperate and money is needed for immediate improvements. Yours very truly, (Signed) A. MARSTON. ASSOCIATION BUILDING OR ALUMNI HALL. Not the least of the College equipment for improved service to its students is the Association Building, or Alumni Hall. This building will be the headquarters for the Young Men's Christian Association and for the Young Women's Christian Association and probably for a Secretary of the Alumni Association. The building to cost upwards of fifty thousand dollars when furnished, will be the gift of the students and the alumni and the faculty to the institution. The students themselves, who, without other assistance, subscribed upwards of ten thousand dollars at the inception of the enterprise three years ago, came forward again last winter with a subscription amounting to more than ten thousand dollars additional. Some of the alumni gave generous subscriptions. Mr. Charles N. Dietz of Omaha gave five thousand dollars and Mr. L. W. Noyes of Chicago gave five thousand dollars, making possible the completion of the building without debt. These gifts from alumni and friends and students are worthy of the highest praise, and it is to be hoped that larger gifts will be made in other ways to provide for the larger usefulness and efficiency of the institution to the people. The attitude of alumni and friends of eastern institutions should inspire the friends of the western schools to like munificence and forethought. OUTSIDE WORK OF PROFESSORS. It is in the highest degree important that men at the head of departments and giving instruction in technical and professional collegiate work should be, themselves, thoroughly familiar with the professional and technical fields of work to which their graduates must go. We must have men who are recognized as authorities in their respective fields. Men who would isolate themselves in college offices and lecture rooms and become mere abstract theorists would no longer be suitable for instructors. This is so generally recognized in technical schools that other institutions of the highest standing insist upon their head professors keeping active professional and responsible relations with the business world, especially as consulting engineers or as specialists in agricultural subjects or in fields of science. The following regulation was adopted by the Board of Trustees at its meeting June 5, 1906, upon the recommendation of the Faculty Committee of the Board: "No employee of the college shall undertake any outside engagement or employment detrimental to his college work, or which (in case of remunerative work done in term time) is not beneficial thereto. "During term time, written permission on proper blank forms shall be obtained from the President or his authorized representative for all outside work undertaken. On the forms particulars of the work shall be set forth, and copies shall be made matter of permanent record in the President's office." It has been and is the policy of the College, as was explained to the Board when this action was taken, to encourage a close relationship between our professors and the industrial interests in the particular lines of their teaching. It is highly important that this vital interest and relationship should be maintained. It is, more |