The University library contains over 16,000 volumes. The number of books added each year is limited because money for book purchase is limited. Other needs seem more pressing, but really they are not. Carlyle says: "A collection of books is a real university." Marlowe speaks of a library as "infinite riches in a little room." There is need of a fire-proof building to house the books we have and bring them more within reach of our students. As it is, the books are shelved near the roof of the Central Building and can only be reached by mounting two flights of steps. The reading room is small, dimly lighted, and altogether uninviting. If the thousands of volumes now in the library are to answer the just demands of our students they must be removed to other and better appointed quarters. Their total loss as now stored, in the event of a serious fire, is certain. CONCLUSION. This is, at best, but a skeleton of a report. The short time of my connection with the University unfits me to go into detail regarding the educational work of the last biennial period, even were it advisable in a report of this nature to go more into particulars than I have done. It is believed that the administration of the business and educational interests of the University has been such as to merit the confidence, goodwill, and approval of our law-making and money-appropriating power and that the means for making more effective and far-reaching the work of the University will be cheerfully provided. EMPLOYES AND ANNUAL PAY-ROLL. OHIO UNIVERSITY, ATHENS, O.. Oct. 1, 1901. Alston Ellis, Ph. D., LL. D., President $3,500 00 Charles William Super, Ph. D., LL. D., Professor of Greek and Dean 2,000 00 1,500 00 William Hoover, Ph. D., LL. D., Professor of Mathematics and Albert A. Atkinson, M. S., Professor of Physics and Electrical Engi Brewster Owen Higley, M. Ph., Professor of History and Political 1,500 00 William Fairfield Mercer, Ph. D., Professor Biology and Geology. Frank C. Doan, A. B., A. M., Professor of Psychology and Pedagogy. Edwin W. Chubb, Litt. D., Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature 1,500 00 Eli Dunkle, A. M., Associate Professor of Greek and Principal of the 1,500 00 H. Roy Wilson, A. M., Associate Professor of English 1,000 00 Charles M. Copeland, B. Ped., Principal of the Commercial Depart ment 1,500 00 James Pryor McVey, Director of the Department of Music Marie Louise Stahl, Instructor in Drawing and Painting.... 800 00 Mabel K. Brown, Ph. B., Instructor in Stenography and Typewriting.. 600 00 George E. McLaughlin, Assistant in Physics and Electricity. Neiman R. Cunius, Instructor in Draughting and Penmanship. 250 00 |