THE SCHOOL OF LAW. No unusual change has taken place in the numbers and courses in this department. The introduction of the case system into a small number of courses is a step toward the employment of a method which is used in all courses in some of the best schools. Our teachers are thoroughly competent and take great interest in their work. Our early graduates are serving in places of responsibility, and many later graduates are rapidly rising in their profession in different parts of the country. James F. Bundy, Esq., who for many years had been its efficient and successful secretary, died in December, 1914, and George F. Collins, Esq., was elected to the vacancy. The number for the last year was as follows: Below our three professional schools we have five collegiate schools. THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. The growth of the college of arts and sciences shows how much the colored high schools of the country are improving their standards, because admission to the college is on a level with admission to any other college. Better material is coming each year to our college of arts and sciences, and is proving itself to be entitled to the higher education. Large numbers are attracted by the study of science in our laboratories and are doing commendable work. The number of students this year has been 365, over against 314 for the previous year. There have been 87 classes, 57 of which have an enrollment of 25 or over, and 30 classes with less than 25 each. Twenty-one classes have an enrollment of 35 or more. The following tabulation will show the distribution of students in attendance the past year: The roll of students for the year was as follows: The teachers' college shares in the growth of the collegiate branches of our work, but not to so great a degree as the College of Arts and Sciences, since all the professions and businesses other than teaching are represented in the latter. The distribution of our students as teachers in different parts of the country still goes on successfully. Almost all the graduates of this college actually go into the work of teaching. We are constantly in receipt of requests for additional teachers. This department maintains two-year normal training classes and kindergarten training classes, but the burden of our work is resting upon the full four-year college classes with expert professional teachers. The results show that our aim is understood and that our work is successful. The department has grown during the past year. The roll of students for the year was as follows: The registration in this department has been separated for the first time from that in other departments. Ten students have been pursuing courses in engineering and 105 students have been sent to the department by other departments to pursue different courses in manual arts, woodworking, forging, domestic science, etc. A laundry laboratory is being added to the domestic science department. The courses in domestic science and domestic art have been increased to full four years' duration of college grade. The director in his report for the year says: The one great need of the school is a building to contain the forge shop, foundry, and machine shop. When this is secured our students in engineering will have equipment and facilities better than those found in many northern universities. 8161°-INT 1915-VOL 1-52 The equipment has been greatly strengthened the past year. But the present forge shop is inadequate, and we have no foundry. Such a building as is needed can be erected for a very small sum. A laboratory for hydraulics has been established for tests of pumps, motors, hydraulic rams, and other appliances. The subjects taught are those under civil, mechanical, and electrical engineering, including free-hand and mechanical drawing, woodwork, sheet-metal work, and forging, together with printing, sewing, cooking, weaving, basketry, garment making, and millinery. Domestic science is being developed upon the scientific side, so as to embrace the mechanical analysis of foods, the knowledge of the proper proportions of nutriment in different relations, together with the proper methods of cooking and serving. The enrollment in all classes was 115. THE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC. The conservatory has had a most successful year. Full grades for college work have been adopted, including major and minor studies, history, theory, and language. The requirements for admission to this branch of the conservatory are regular college requirements. In the elementary department students can begin and carry on music until fitted for higher studies. Instruction upon the organ has been begun. The cantata entitled "The Children's Crusade" was given under the auspices of the conservatory by the university chorus with great success. One student completed all the grades of our college work and was graduated with the degree of bachelor of music this year after a most exacting course. This is the first time the degree has been given here, and it was most worthily won. The number of students was 94. THE LIBRARY SCHOOL. Several students applied for work in this department, but found it impossible to take the courses because of our requirement that a full program be carried. For this reason no students were registered. The department work is to be carried through whenever five students determine to devote their full time to it. SECONDARY SCHOOLS. Below our collegiate schools we have two secondary schools. THE ACADEMY. The number of students in the academy has decreased this year from what it was last year. Inasmuch as new material comes into the department at its lowest point in a comparatively crude condition, the smaller numbers of the year have given opportunity to strengthen courses at essential points. The academy is maintained in order that we may train this new material for higher courses as we wish to have it trained-viz, according to the highest standards. The high standing of the work has been maintained without interruption. This department ranks among the best preparatory schools of the coun try. The courses maintained are those customary for secondary schools of similar standing, embracing modern and ancient languages, English composition, rhetoric, and different forms of history, together with manual training and some forms of science. The roll of students for the year was as follows: The students of this department have the very best kind of training in the forms of business studies, including stenography and typewriting, English, mathematics, physics, bookkeeping, political economy, civics, commercial law, commercial geography, physiology, history of commerce, and other branches. During the past year we have inaugurated under the auspices of this department a detailed study of a series of businesses established and conducted by negroes. The first number of the series was a comparative study of negro banks, and is to be followed by a similar study of insurance companies. In this way it is hoped to make a contribution to the welfare of business life by a better understanding of what negroes are undertaking to do. The roll of students for the year was as follows: It is scarcely possible to overestimate the worth of the work Howard University is doing for the population of the whole country, white and black. As the higher education produces its proper effects upon the colored race, the welfare of both races is affected for the better. It is for the advantage of both races that our lawyers, doctors, dentists, druggists, ministers, teachers, and business men should go out with high training. The numbers under our care promise to grow larger and larger. In order to handle this great student body successfully, we need, first of all and at once, an adequate auditorium. In any general exercise we can seat only a small part of the whole number. We need a hall of music for our growing conservatory, which is in cramped quarters; a suitable indoor gymnasium; and an administration building for our present ill-arranged business offices. We need larger laboratories and added equipment in various departments. We need two or three professorships in order to bring our work up to the scope of the best college standards. The need of these things is pressing upon us acutely. We need relief in some way before long. We try to train our students not only in classroom work, but in patriotism and morals. Civic duties are emphasized by many lectures. A spirit of service is cultivated. We commend this university as one of the great, wholesome, and beneficial institutions of the country. REPORT OF TREASURER. The financial statement for the year 1914-15 is appended. We have retained during the year the same helpers in our accounting room, and the auditing of all our accounts has been done under firstclass inspection. The expenditure of all money appropriated for our use by Congress takes place under the rigid supervision of the Department of the Interior. The SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR. STEPHEN M. NEWMAN, FINANCIAL REPORT. President. Expenditure of appropriation for maintenance, fiscal year ended June 30, 1915. Administration: President, in part.. Secretary, dean of commercial college, and professor, in part---- Treasurer, registrar, and professor of economics and political science, in part.. $3,600.00 2, 025.00 2,025.00 $7,650.00 1, 584.00 One professor of chemistry, in part One professor of Greek, in part- One professor of zoology, in part-- One assistant professor of public speaking, in part One instructor in French, in part---- One associate professor of mathematics, in part-- One instructor in English, in part One associate professor of chemistry, in part.. One instructor in German, in part One instructor in chemistry, in part One instructor in German, in part__. One instructor in physics, in part___ Teachers' college: Dean and professor of pedagogy, in part--. One associate professor of mathematics, in part. One professor of psychology, in part- One associate professor of practice teaching, in part. 1,485.00 1,485.00 1,035.00 1,485.00 450.00 1, 125.00 1,170.00 720.00 765.00 540.00 900.00 855.00 560.00 540.00 One professor of nature study, in part--- One assistant professor of English, in part.. One instructor in English, in part_____ One instructor in teaching history, in part.. 19, 366. 50 1, 584.00 1, 440.00 1, 120.00 1, 260. 00 675.00 990.00 750.00 630.00 8,449.00 |