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education. Besides $800. looks like a good deal of money
for taking care of the buildings and grounds. It may be
too that the Board will not consider this a matter of
sufficient importance to take final action.
I ask also for some latitude in the employment of
additional teachers if necessary. If the attendance is
as large, as it is the present term we cannot
get along with one. We have a teacher in penmanship
who cost us $35.00. The student paying $105.. I
further arranged for three extra classes that cost the
college nothing. We have to take all grades of students
which make nearly twice as many teachers necessary
as would suffice if they were properly distributed -
Some classes are so large that it is necessary
to divide them. This must often be done also to avoid
conflicts. Our program provides for about 75 classes a
day, besides which there is a great deal of laboratory
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work in several departments that must be
supervised by the instructor. If the faculty is raised to
the number recommended in this report we
shall still fall one or two short of the number of
four or five years ago - It is well to keep in mind
also that we must have the instructors before we
can expect to get the students. We could get along
very well with fewer teacher if we were to cut off
a year from our preparatory department - I should have
been glad to do this years ago, but it would considerably
reduce an attendance, and I have not yet seen my
way clear to recommend it, so long as so many of our
students are from small towns and villages, we shall
probably for a long time to come find it advisable
to give all who [?precent?] themselves a trial -
Our music department has been somewhat overcrowded
for the reason that it has been difficult to distribute
the pupils properly between the two teachers - I have
stated in the catalogue that the fees for music will
hereafter range from 8 to 15$ per term - I could
not be more definite without the authority of the Board.