proper bounds, making them the incidental and not the principal features of university and intercollegiate life. All that is dishonorable, unsportsmanlike, ungentlemanly or unnecessarily rough in any branch of athletics is particularly and expressly condemned.

To the institutions originally adopting these rules and constituting the "College Conference on Athletics" have recently been added the Universities of Indiana and Iowa, raising the number to nine. It may be said that this organization, and the work it has accomplished in purifying and elevating the standing of college athletics, is the direct outgrowth of the initiative taken by Purdue University.

From this brief report it is evident that Purdue has achieved a respected and prominent position in athletics which is due, we believe, to a continued and consistent effort to encourage those features which are desirable and helpful, and to restrict or eliminate those which are harmful. Under these conditions it is believed that college athletics deserve recognition, and should not be excluded from a proper and reasonable place among the secondary activities of the University.

Respectfully,

WINTHROP E. STONE,

Chairman Faculty Committee on Athletics.

IMPROVEMENTS FOR THE YEAR.

During the year we have expended four thousand dollars in substantial repairs, many of these being in the nature of betterments. The following is a list of actual improvements made during the year with an approximate statement of their cost, the exact figures being found on the books of the Secretary of the Board:

Cost of building and furnishing Agricultural Annex.... $1,654 Boiler House Extension and New Boiler..

2,447

The above is a correct statement of receipts and expenditures in Miscellaneous Fund.

E. A. ELLSWORTH, Secretary of Board of Trustees.

MORRILL FUND FOR YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1899.

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Received of Government, as per Treasurer's report. $24,000 00

Paid for salaries of faculty...

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$24,000 00

The above is a correct statement of receipts and expenditures from the Morrill Fund for year ending June 30, 1899.

E. A. ELLSWORTH,

Secretary of Board of Trustees.

ENDOWMENT FUND FOR YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1899.

The above is a correct report of receipts and expenditures from Endowment Fund for year ending June 30, 1899.

E. A. ELLSWORTH,

Secretary of Board of Trustees.

SPECIFIC APPROPRIATION FOR ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT.

Balance due as per report July 1, 1898....

$1,785 61

Amount received and expended from July 1, 1898, to

and apparatus..

October 31, 1898, for improvements, machinery

$1,785 61

The above is a correct statement of expenditures from the specific appropriation for Engineering Department.

E. A. ELLSWORTH,

Secretary of Board of Trustees.

SPECIFIC APPROPRIATION FOR ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING.

Balance due as per report July 1, 1898..

$115 54

Amount received and expended from July 1, 1898, to

October 31, 1898, for improvements, machinery

and apparatus..

$115 54

The above is a correct statement of expenditures from the specific appropriation for Electrical Engineering.

E. A. ELLSWORTH,

Secretary of Board of Trustees.

APPROPRIATION FOR REPAIRS FOR YEAR ENDING OCTOBER 31, 1898.

Balance due as per report July 1, 1898..

$313 02

Amount received and expended from July 1, 1898, to

October 31, 1898, for repairs to buildings, books,

roads and machinery.....

$313 02

The above is a correct statement of expenditures from the specific appropriation for repairs.

E. A. ELLSWORTH,

Secretary of Board of Trustees.

APPROPRIATION FOR REPAIRS FOR YEAR ENDING OCTOBER 31, 1899.

Amount appropriated.....

Amount received and expended up to July 1, 1899, for repairs to buildings, machinery and apparatus

Balance due...

Totals

$3.500 00

$1,610 03

1,889 97

$3,500 00 $3,500 00

The above is a correct statement of the expenditures from specific appropriation for repairs.

E. A. ELLSWORTH,

Secretary of Board of Trustees,

FARMERS' INSTITUTE FUND, JULY 1, 1893, TO OCTOBER 31, 1898.

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Balance July 1, 1898...

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Expense holding institutes..

Printing, stationery, postage.

Clerical work...

Miscellaneous, including express, telegrams, etc..........

Supplies

Totals

The above is a correct report of expenditures from the Farmers' Institute Fund.

E. A. ELLSWORTH, Secretary of Board of Trustees.

FARMERS' INSTITUTE FUND FOR THE YEAR ENDING OCTOBER 31, 1899.

The above is a correct statement of expenditures from the Farmers' Institute Fund for year ending October 31, 1899.

E. A. ELLSWORTH, Secretary of Board of Trustees.