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Annual Meeting, Tuesday, August 1, 1854
The Board of Trustees of the Ohio University met
at 10 o'clock A.M. this day, agreeably to notice. Present.
Rev. Solomon Howard D.D. President, Rev. Wm
Aikin, Leonidas Jewett Esq. Joseph M. Dana Esq.
Hon. Samuel B. Pruden, Horace Wilson Esq. and
A.G. Brown, Secy. also Hon. John E. Hanna
and Rev. Wm T. Hand appointed members by
the Governor with the advice of the Senate of the
State of Ohio, since the last meeting of the Board.
The minutes of the last meeting were read &
approved.
The President presented his annual Report and
accompanying documents- Read, and on motion,
referred to Messrs. Aikin, Hanna & Jewett to report
thereon. The President's communication reads as follows:
"Gentlemen of the Board of Trustees,
The Academic year now closing has been in all respects
prosperous. The number of Students has gradually increased, the
whole number in attendance during the year is 142. Of these 62 have
recited in the College Classes, and 80 in the Preparatory Department.
The increase of the present over the last year is 40, and the promise
of a steady and large increase is better than it has before been.
The Professors and Students have generally and uniformly
enjoyed good health, and the work of teaching in the respective
Departments has been faithfully and efficiently performed.
The Students have with commendable diligence applied
themselves to their studies, and the order has uniformly been good as
not one case of disorder during the year has occurred, which has
required the exercise of formal discipline. A high moral sentiment
prevail among the students of the University, and the
spirit of insubordination which sometimes obtains in colleges is
unknown-
The Faculty in arranging the courses of study, have made
out a scientific course. This has been done to meet the wants
wishes of a large class of young men, whose time, means, or
other circumstances do not admit of their pursuing a regular
college course, but who desire to qualify themselves for teaching, or
for business pursuits. With a competent knowledge of the common
English branches they may enter the Scientific Department, and in
two years complete an extensive course of Mathematics, Natural
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