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The condition of our finances the past
year has been very satisfactory. After the funds
on hand at the end of the year were exhausted,
the treasurer generally advanced money until the
first day of January. Since that time the members
of the Faculty have been unable to draw their
salaries with any certainty or regularity. A great
part of the time they have either borrowed
money + paid interest on it, or have suffered
the inconveniences of living without any.
This condition of affairs has made the
reduction of salaries doubly hard to bear.
By the first of October, at the latest, the treasury
will again be empty +, unless the rents are paid
more promptly than they have been for the
last few years, the salaries will be in arrears
for the next six months, if not for the rest of
the year. Your attention is called to this subject
with the hope that you will be able to devise some
measure of relief.
The Legislature during the present
session has made appropriations amounting
to over $15,000 to the Ohio State University.
Our claim upon the state is of the same kind,
but older + stronger, than that of the institution
which has been thus favored. I feel confident
that if such a claim were presented + advocated
with the united ability + influence of this
Board of Trustees, it would be acknowledged, and
something would be done to meet it.
At your last meeting I was directed
to correspond with the presidents of other colleges
on the subject of college discipline, inquiring
especially for their views as to the propriety and
expediency of compelling testimony from students.
The ends of such a correspondence were perhaps,
fully met by the action of the Ohio State College
Association at its session last December.
The subject was discussed at some length, + there
was general agreement, I believe, in the following
preamble + resolution:-
"Believing it to be essential to the morals
of our students that testimony against evil should
be given, therefore.
Resolved that the Ohio College Association
hereby expresses as its judgment that college