tion and become members of the new Board. A committee on By-Laws was appointed and will report at the Commencement meeting of the Board. This Board takes up its work with enthusiasm and fine promise of earnest and intelligent interest in its duties. The recommendation in the President's report The Infirmary regarding an infirmary ought to be carried out. Rarely is there a case of serious illness among the students, and when there is the proper place for the treatment of it is at the hospital. But it is unavoidable that there should be frequent cases of indisposition lasting for a few days. The writer knows from recent experience how uncomfortable, inconvenient and generally disagreeable it is to be shut in a student's room at such a time. If there is anything more subtly adapted to produce nostalgia than a student's bedroom with its bareness of conveniences and its unhomelike surroundings and the necessity of eating toast and drinking tea that have been ten minutes in transit from the Club House through a zero atmosphere, he does not just now think what it can be. Nor is it a mere matter of comfort and peace of mind. The risks to health and even life which students must take at such times in traversing drafty halls are obvious to those familiar with existing conditions. Some friend of humanity would confer a great boon upon at least a dozen students every year by giving a few hundred dollars for this infirmary, with its sanitary conditions, bathroom, pantry and other simple and inexpensive but highly necessary conveniences. To the Board of Directors of Auburn Theological Seminary: GENTLEMEN :-The following are the statistics relating to our student body: ENROLLMENT, BY CLASSES, 1904-1905 : Graduate, 3; Senior, 14; Middle, 20; Junior, 16........... 53 LOSSES, 1904-1905. Graduated, 14; Special students, work finished, 2; with drawn, 2............... 18 Students of 1904-1905, returning September 20, 1905..... 35 ENROLLMENT BY CLASSES, 1905-1906: The figures show that we matriculated twenty-three, as against nineteen last year, and that the total number of students enrolled this year is fifty-nine as against fifty-there last year. One of the two men withdrawn is traveling and studying abroad and the other is engaged in Home Mission work. Both anticipate returning to the Seminary next autumn. Three students entered the Seminary from other Seminaries, all of them matriculating in the Middle Class. This year, as is almost our uniform custom, we dismissed none to other Seminaries. Seventeen men applying for admission were refused, since they could not comply with our terms of admission. On February 3, 1906, it pleased God to take out of Dr. Darling this life the Rev. Timothy Grenville Darling, D. D., Richards Professor of Christian Theology. Dr. Darling came to the Seminary in 1888 to succeed the late Dr. Anson J. Upson, as Professor of Sacred Rhetoric. He was then forty-five years of age, and had had seventeen years of experience in the pastorate, two years as assistant to Rev. Dr. John Backus, in Baltimore, and fifteen years as pastor of the First Presbyterian church, Schenectady. When he came to the Seminary, he was in the fulness of his powers and was rich in a valuable experience. Upon the Richards Chair of Christian Theology becoming vacant in 1890 through the death of Prof. Welch, Dr. Darling was chosen to fill the vacancy. Few men were his peers in ripeness of scholarship and mastery of the art of expression. He was the personal friend of the students, and was tenderly loved by all. His genial spirit and versatile mind made him a coveted companion and valued friend. He was a faithful servant of the Seminary, ever loyal to its interests, and untiring in his devotion to every task. A memorial service was held in the chapel Monday evening. February 5, and a more formal service addressed by the Rev. John Sparhawk Jones, D. D., a lifelong friend of Dr. Darling, was held May 9, in the chapel. Health of the Mr. Frank Lee Putnam, a member of our Senior Class, departed this life February 18, 1906. Mr. Putnam's illness was of brief duration and his death was preceded by an operation for appendicitis. He was a young man of promise and his death brought sorrow to the Faculty and students and removed a young man who would undoubtedly have been a useful and honored minister. With the single exception of Mr. Putnam's sickness, there has been no serious illness among our students during the year. Thus has been added another year to our excellent health record, for so healthful is this locality that we rarely have a case of serious illness in our student body. Clerk of the Faculty and Registrar Prof. Reed has been elected by the Faculty as its clerk to succeed Dr. Darling, who served in that capacity for twelve years. The Faculty has also established the office of Registrar, whose duties will be those ordinarily performed by this officer, such as in the main, keeping the records pertaining to the students. Prof. Reed has been elected to this office and has entered upon the discharge of his duties. Classes in Theology After the death of Dr. Darling, it was necessary to make some arrangement for the care of his classes. As he had finished his work with the Senior class, there was only the work of his two lower classes to provide for. It was thought that Junior Theology might be arrested advantageously at that point. Therefore, one of their theological hours was taken by Professor Reed in Greek and one hour by Professor Hoyt in Homiletics. Dr. Dulles considerately consented to carry the Middle Class through its Theology, thus adding three hours, and that in another department, to his schedule. The readiness of these Professors to fill in the gap illustrates the loyalty of our whole Faculty to the Seminary and their willingness to render any needed service. Inauguration of I would report that, pursuant to the direction of the Board of Commissioners and Board of Trustees at their last annual meetings, Professor Dulles was inaugurated with fitting ceremony as the first occupant of the Chair of Theism and Apologetic on Wednesday, September 20, 1905. Endowment Pursuant to action taken at the last commencement, the following named gentlemen were appointed a committee for the purpose of securing the additional funds needed by the Seminary for the prosecution and enlargement of its work: Robert Cluett, Troy, Dana W. Bigelow, Utica, This committee prepared and printed an illustrated statement under the title "Auburn Theological Seminary." This statement sets forth certain interesting facts regarding the history, personnel, ideals, advantages, and needs of the Seminary. The needs as tabulated by the committee are as follows: This makes a total of $615,000, that ought to be added to the permanent funds of the Seminary at once, in order to enable it to do the work that it is expected by the Church to do, and that it is otherwise prepared to do. The committee desire, and I am sure will receive, the cooperation and support of your body in the furtherance of its work. It has set before itself a large task, but not too large when we consider the possibilities of the Seminary and its work. New Charter Pursuant to the action taken by the Board of Commissioners and the Board of Trustees at their last annual meetings in May, 1905, and subsequently unanimously approved by all of the eighteen Presbyteries associated in the control of the Seminary, a new charter was obtained from the legislature of this state and became one of the laws of this state, March 15, 1906. For your information I herewith submit the original charter and its subsequent amendments, together with the new act. So much of the old charter as is not repealed by this Act of 1906 remains in force, and together they constitute the law governing this Seminary. |