The first hour of the period is used for a lecture by Professor Adams. Students take notes, copying diagrams from the blackboard. The sketches made in the first hour are used in the second hour to furnish data for the mechanical drawing. This method was necessitated by the changes in this year's programme, and it has proved to be a more interesting method of instruction than the use of the text-book. The second-year descriptive geometry is being taught by Messrs. Kenison and Bradley, and is a continuation of the instruction of last year. The students seem to be interested in their work, the machinery of instruction is running smoothly, and the new instructors have proved most efficient. 2. GYMNASIUM. Dr. Skarstrom resigned his position of instructor in the Gymnasium in May, 1903. Mr. Winfield C. Towne, A.B., was appointed to take his place. Mr. Towne is a graduate of Bowdoin College. He entered Bowdoin in the fall of 1899, and, along with his regular college course, made a study of gymnastics; he made his various class football and track teams, and also the 'varsity football and the Worcester track teams. He was a member of the dumb-bell, broad-sword and fencing squads, being leader of the latter. During his Sophomore year he was made an assistant in the Sargent Gymnasium. During his last two years he was assistant to Dr. F. M. Whittier, A.M., (Director of the Sargent Gymnasium, Lecturer on Hygiene, and Professor of Bacteriology and Pathological Histology in the Bowdoin Medical School). During this time he was assistant instructor in the gymnasium, having entire charge of the Freshman classes. Mr. Towne has devoted the first month of the school year to making physical examinations and measurements of students who present themselves for Gymnasium instruction. The regular class-work began, as formerly, November 9. The students have shown much interest in their Gymnasium work. Mr. Towne will carry out a programme which is, in general, the same as that of most of our American colleges. 3. COMMITTEE ON MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY EXHIBIT AT LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION, ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI. The Institute of Technology has been granted a space of one thousand square feet on one of the main aisles of the Educational Building. Detailed plans for the installation of the exhibit were made by Professor H. W. Gardner, and have been accepted as satisfactory by the Committee in St. Louis. Instructors have been appointed by the different departments of the Institute to collect material for the exhibition. Professor W. H. Lawrence and Professor L. Derr are now engaged in taking photographs of new pieces of apparatus, new laboratories, and new buildings. The exhibit will probably be ready by March 1, and must be installed and ready for inspection April 25, 1904. STATISTICS OF ILLNESSES FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR 1902-1903. Senior Class. Whole number of Senior Class, specials and regulars, 290. Number of fourth-year students who were ill during the year 1902-03, 15. Of this number, nine were graduated and received the degree from the Institute. Of those who were ill, two were sent to the Massachusetts General Hospital, one with typhoid fever, and one for a second operation for appendicitis. The other 13 cases were of rather trivial character. Fourth-year student who died, May 1, 1903, Alfred W. Bruton, Course VI., '03, drowned by canoeing accident. Junior Class. Whole number of Junior Class, specials and regulars, 360. Number of third-year students who were ill during the year 1902-03, 38. Of those who were ill, seven cases were treated at hospitals; two each at Massachusetts General Hospital, City Hospital, Boothby Hospital, and one case at unknown hospital. Classified by diseases, there were the following cases: I appendicitis, 5 typhoid fever, I diphtheria, 8 grippe, I scarlet fever, 3 tonsillitis, 3 bronchitis, I mumps, 2 operation, I nervous condition, 2 cold on lungs, I water on knee, i accident to eye, I injury by accident, and 7 cases of illness unknown. Of the cases treated at hospitals, there were two deaths: Eliot Granger, appendicitis, Massachusetts General Hospital; R. A. Lauffer, typhoid fever, Boothby Hospital, Nov. 5, 1903. Sophomore Class. Whole number of Sophomore Class, specials and regulars, 462. Number of second-year students who were ill during the year 1902-03, 42. Of those who were ill, three were sent to the Massachusetts General Hospital, two ill with rheumatism, one with typhoid fever. Classified by diseases, there were the following cases: 4 tonsillitis, I influenza, 2 bronchitis, I appendicitis, I measles, 4 grippe, 2 fever, I diphtheria, I cold, I burned, 1 German measles, 2 rheumatism, I trouble with eyes, I malarial fever, I operation on hand, 3 typhoid fever, and 15 cases of illness. unknown. There were two deaths among the members of this class: F. W. McConnell, Course II., '05, died Jan. 7, 1903, typhoid fever; H. R. Sweetser, Course V., '05, drowned June 15, 1903, off Misery Island. Freshman Class. Whole number of Freshman Class, specials and regulars, 479. Number of first-year students who were ill during the year 1902-03, 54. Of those who were ill, one case was treated at the Homœopathic Hospital. Classified by diseases, there are the following cases: 5 tonsillitis, 2 mumps, 3 grippe, 1 cold on lungs, 2 appendicitis, I severe intestinal trouble, I quinsy, I rheumatism, I abscess on foot, 2 measles, 5 typhoid fever, I pleurisy, 2 pneumonia, I operation, I abscess in ear, 2 trouble with eyes, 1 jaundice, I sprained leg, and 21 cases of illness unknown. There were two deaths among the members of this class: Francis A. Falvey, '06, died January 14, 1903, appendicitis; Thomas B. Watson, '06, severe intestinal trouble. REPORT OF THE MEDICAL ADVISER. Office hours have been held in the Pierce Building once a week until the middle of November and since then twice a week. The following table gives the number of office visits made and the number of students seen : Total number of office visits made. Least number of students seen per hour. 254 156 7 2 5 33 6 The time set apart for medical visits has been fully utilized. Almost all of the students seen were men; not more than three or four women came for advice. Four-fifths of the students found it necessary to come only once,— usually for the treatment of some acute and promptly curable condition. Many of those making several visits in succession were surgical cases which required dressings. The Institute is not a place for invalids, and it was natural to find that only an exceptional man needed frequent medical advice. The average number of students seen per hour was five. This is as large a number of men as can be satisfactorily seen in one hour, as this allows only an average of ten or twelve minutes per student. The number of students seen would have averaged less than five per hour had it not been for occasional students who simply came to ask for the name of a specialist whom they might consult. Frequently in surgical cases, and where minor operations were performed, much more time was required per man.. When the office hour was held only once a week, there were always several men left over at the end of the hour who could not be seen within the appointed time. Since the office hours have been held twice a week, there are only occasional days when students are left over. The severity of the illnesses varied much. Some diseases, |