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health is good these rebates will amount to very
little. During the past year this matter has given
the register a good deal of trouble that can be avoided
by the plan above suggested. Professor Dunkle ought to
have at least five dollars per month above his
salary or a lump sum of fifty dollars as registrar.
As he has to enroll each student every term, assign
him his studies, and collect all the fees, he has an
enormous amount of clerical work to perform. This
year he has made more than 800 enrollments in
duplicate - I shall be glad to suggest further additions
as the individual cases come up for discussion.
Prof. Brown has also recently handed in his resignation
the fact has not become widely known and the
candidates for his place are few in fact so far as I
am aware there are only three. Of these three two
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Report [end inserted] are applicants for themselves, and [inserted] one [end inserted] through his friend,
as he himself informs me. Two are our own
graduates, the third is not, tho a native of Athens
County - Thus gentlemen him I believe the strongest
and most [crossed out] efficient [end crossed out] [inserted] [illegible] [end inserted] endorcements I have ever seen.
In directness and force they could scarcely be surpassed.
In spite of my own predilations, I believe that [crossed out] the [end crossed out] [inserted] He [end inserted]
will bring the most credit to the department and
the college. Of the three gentlemen I have indicated
[illegible]; Professor Shott now of [?Carthage?] I'll Supt. Coler of
Concord_N_C_ and Dr FC Doan of Cambridge Mass I feel
compelled to indicate my preference for the last named.
I wish to traverse again a few points that I have
alredy touched upon- We are extremely anxious
to increase our attendance to 500. next year. A less
relative increase than this year [illegible] compared with
last will do it. Our great difficulty has been to keep students
to the end of the course. They come here for two, three and
four years, then their means are exhausted and they leave,
most of them never to return. The state universities
are [illegible] the higher schools for these of slender means
The O.S.U affords a great deal of help. Students have left us