C. V. N. Kittridge, tin for repairing roof of University Hall same On Principal fund..... On Income fund....... Total............ The foregoing list of warrants issued during the last fiscal year may be appropriately classified and charged to the following sources, to wit: "B" Hon. J. L. PICKARD, 1 Prest. of Board Regents of University of Wisconsin: Herewith please find my report as Treasurer of the University, containing a detailed statement of the receipts and disbursements from October 1st, 1861, to 30th ultimo, from which it appears the receipts were thirteen thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight and 50-100 dollars, and the disbursements fourteen thousand four hundred seventy 78-100 dollars, leaving due the treasurer a balance of five hundred eighty two 28100 dollars. MADISON, Wis., Oct. 1, 1862. TIMOTHY BROWN, REPORT of receipts and disbursements by the Treasurer of the University from October 1st, 1861, to Sept. 30th, 1862, inclusive. MADISON, Wis., Sept. 30, 1862. We have examined the books and vouchers of T. Brown, Esq., treas. urer of the University of Wisconsin, and compared them with the books, accounts and warrants of the secretary of the Board of Regents, for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30th, 1862, and find that there is a balance in favor of the treasurer, of five hundred and eighty-two dollars and twentyeight cents ($522 28.) J. L. PICKARD, Secretary. Auditing Com.. of University of Wisconsin. "0" REPORT of the Faculty on the Numbers, Prospects, and Workings of the Institution. The number of students enrolled on the books of the University during the last year, has been one hundred and twenty-nine, namely: In the first term ninety-seven; in the second fifty-four; and eighty in the third. During the present session the number in attendance has been seventy. The aggregate of the last year has been well nigh identical with that of the one before it. But within the last year, at least twenty-six individuals have fallen out of our classes to enter the army, and we are assured that a still larger number have been kept from becoming members of the Institution, through feeling constrained to become soldiers themselves, or through being needed at home, because other members of their families had enlisted. Had it not been for these drawbacks, it cannot be doubted but that the University would have been resorted to by larger classes, than in any previous year of its existence. The present arrangement of terms was last year adopted with a view to enable those whose circumstances require it, to teach each year four months, and at the sane time pursue the University course during two full terms. Knowing how far our students are from riches, we were agreeably disappointed to see fifty-four students in our class-rooms last winter. We dare not expect so many the present season, as the demand for primary teachers will be more pressing than ever, since so many, ly of that class, are now serving their country in the field. late All the colleges in our country were fearfully thinned during the Revolutionary struggle, and have proportionally suffered from every other war with which our land has been afflicted. At the close, however, of each of these contests, academic halls were sought, not only by those who might naturally have been looked for, but by not a few unexpected students. The reason is obvious, In every regiment there are not a few in the ranks, as well as above them, in whom military life, demonstrating that knowledge is power, has wakened a craving, before unfelt, for liberal education. Such aspirants to culture, when disbanded, also find themselves with money, which but for military service some of them would never have had, to defray the expenses incident to their intellectual ad vancement. It is no wonder, then, that the annals of Yale and other colleges, mention students, who, having been soldiers till past the average age at which classes graduate, have then been, as it were, born out of due time into the literary world, and have at the eleventh hour taken by force the kingdom of knowledge. Nor have such instances been uncommon abroad. Sir Charles Napier, after being left for dead on the battle-field of Corunna, |
