1890-92 - University Archives and Records Center - University of ...

In addition to these losses by death there have been changes
occasioned by the inevitable »demands for modifications in the
methods and scope of our teaching, as the older subjects require
subdivision and expansion, or are found not to be sufficiently in
v demand to warrant .the maintenance of separate chairs. No
subject within recent years has so taxed the thought, care
and time of the Trustees as the readjustments in the College
Faculty which were imperatively required to secure a maximum
efficiency within the limits of the means at -their disposal; and
the evidently good results of your carefully-considered actions
do not obliterate the' regret that in some cases the reorganization
affected the positions of- some whose relations to the University
have been long and honorable. In other cases members of. our
teaching force whom we were very unwilling to lose have
accepted calls to superior positions in other Colleges, which they
could not be blamed for accepting in the view of slender probability
of their equivalent advancement in our own staff at any
early date. To offset this we have the gratification of noting
that several of our most distinguished professors have declined
offers of high honor and much greater emoluments through
their loyal affection for the University and their conviction of the
advantages which their present positions gave them for the
prosecution of the special work to which as a high calling, and
not a trad(e, they have devoted their lives. In the reorganization
of the College Faculty, and in the filling of vacancies caused by
death or resignation, accessions have been made to our Faculties,
and while in some cases it is too soon to pronounce a positive
judgment, we have every reason to believe that valuable additions
have been made to our teaching staff A detailed statement of
deaths, resignations and appointments will be found in Appendix.
The wisdom of the Board in securing the additional land
lying to the eastward of Thirty-fourth Street has been more than
vindicated by the expansions made during the last three years,
and the need, daily growing more apparent, of even more
territory for the site of University buildings. Upon a portion of
the new ground has been erected the Institute of Hygiene, to
which reference will be made later on. Another portion has
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