had completed the exterior walls and roof of the new chemistry building and had brought the project within 2 months of completion. The contract for the new heat, light, and power plant, made possible by an appropriation of $549,000 by the Public Works Administration, had been let and the work was well under way.

Further improvements to the buildings and grounds were made through assistance given by the Emergency Works Administration, the Bureau for Transients and the Public Works Administration. An additional sum of $40,884 was spent from the private funds of the university, provided by the General Education Board and the Julius Rosenwald Fund and from the income of properties previously purchased through extension funds, for the purchase of additional lands. The total increase in the land resources for the further expansion of the university, provided from private funds, has now reached the value of $1,130,282.

The income of the university from all sources was increased during the year by a gross sum of $474,323, of which $36,740 represented an increase in current funds. Expenditures were carefully budgeted and the finances were kept at balance with a surplus of income over expenditures. The amount and percentage of funds spent for resident instruction were increased and approximated the percentage set up in the 10-year program by 1.8 percent. Percentages of expenditure for general library purposes and athletics were practically the same as programmed 4 years ago, and the regular costs of operation and maintenance approximated the planned percentage by 1.6 percent.

Seven and one-half percent of all student fees were again devoted to scholarship and student aid. University funds, with the help of the F. E. R. A., were able to provide urgently needed assistance to more than 300 students.

The outstanding needs of the university are (1) money to secure 30 competent teachers in the professional rank; (2) increased scholarship funds for undergraduate schools and substantial increases in the number and size of fellowships for graduate students; (3) the earliest possible expedition of the new library building; (4) increased funds for books in every division, and especially in those departments offering graduate majors; and (5) the early acquisition of dormitory facilities for at least 200 men.

REGISTRATION

1. Enrollment for the year 1934-35.-The following table shows the enrollment of Howard University during the year 1934–35, including the first and second semesters and excluding duplicates, distributed by major instructional divisions and by sex, as compared with the year 1933–34.

Summary of students enrolled in Howard University for the years 1934–35 and

The total enrollment for the year 1934-35 was 1,907, of whom 1,008 were men and 899 were women, as compared with the total 1,627 for 1933-34, of whom 939 were men and 987 were women. A net gain of 281 students, or 17.3 percent, is shown as compared with a net loss of 267, or 14 percent, in 1933-34, and a net loss of 571, or approximately 23 percent, in 1932-33.

2. Geographical distribution.--Ninety-four percent of the total enrollment during the school year 1934-35 came from continental United States, while 5.1 percent came from without the borders of the United States, as compared with 92.8 percent and 7.2 percent, respectively, during 1933-34. The percentage of candidates for degrees coming from the District of Columbia during 1934-35 was 27.2 percent, as compared with 30.1 percent for the year 1933-34.

Thirty-nine States sent 1,675 candidates for degrees in 1934-35, as compared with 38 States sending 1,423 candidates in 1933–34. The gain of 232 candidates is shown to have been shared by 30 States. Sixteen of them sent increases of from 1 to 5 candidates; 5 States sent increases of from 6 to 10; 7 sent increases of from 11 to 20; while 2 sent increases of 32 and 41, respectively.

Eleven foreign countries sent 90 candidates for degrees during the school year 1934-35, as compared with 14 foreign countries with a total of 110 candidates for degrees in 1933-34.

3. Widening support of secondary schools.-During the school year 1934-35, 192 secondary schools sent 409 students into the regular courses of the undergraduate colleges, as compared with 147 secondary schools sending 306 entering students in 1933-34. This represents an increase of 35 schools, or 30.6 percent.

4. Growth in students of advanced standing.-During the school year 1934–35, 89 students entered the undergraduate colleges with advanced standing from 57 institutions, as compared with 54 such students from 33 institutions in 1933-34.

Sixty-four, or approximately 66 percent, of 97 students entering the professional schools for the first time during the year 1934-35, were equipped with 4 years or more of college training. Of the 1,907 students in the entire institution, 428, or 22.4 percent, were persons holding one or more academic degrees.

5. Scholarship and student aid. The trustees of the university continued to set aside 72 percent of all student fees as a special scholarship fund for needy students. They also made special provisions for increased work opportunities for students, continued the reduced price of room and board, as well as the installment system of fee payments. In addition thereto, the Federal Emergency Relief Administration awarded aid averging $15 per month to 12 percent of the full-time student body. By these combined measures more than 300 students in the undergraduate colleges received at least some aid during the course of the academic year, while approximately 20 percent of the professional students were also helped.

This aid was devised to help students to remain in school who otherwise would have been obliged to discontinue. All scholarships and student aid were awarded to students in the order of excellence in scholastic standing. Support was thereby given to all other measures stimulating earnest scholarly work. Measurably constructive results were manifest in the scholarly performance of the students.

The scholarship committee of the undergraduate colleges reports that it acted upon 1,400 applications for aid during the school year 1934-35, as compared with 625 applications for the preceeding year. These and other indications make us certain that there are many worthy students who desired to enter Howard University but were not able to enter for lack of encouraging aid.

GRADUATES

1. Number and distribution.-The following table exhibits the number of graduates from each division of the university during 1934-35, as compared with 1933-34. The table shows that there was a total of 272 students graduated during the year, representing an

increase of 41, as compared with the group of graduates in 1933–34. The percentage of male graduates was 53.7 percent in 1934-35, as compared with 56 percent in 1933-34, while the corresponding percentage of women graduates was 46.3 percent and 44 percent, respectively. The 272 graduates represent 28 states and 4 foreign countries.

Summary of students graduated by Howard University for the years 1934-35 and 1933-34

2. Honorary degrees.-Two honorary degrees were conferred at commencement in June 1935. William A. Warfield, surgeon in chief, Freedmen's Hospital, was awarded the degree of doctor of laws; and Mary Elizabeth Branch, president of Tilotson College, Austin, Tex., was also awarded the degree of doctor of laws.

3. Placement bureau for graduates.-A university-wide placement bureau was established in the office of the registrar for the purpose of helping to place the graduates of all divisions of Howard University in competent positions throughout the Nation.

4. Number and distribution of living graduates.-The total number of living graduates of Howard University is now 9,246. Of this number the registrar has 7,000 actual addresess in 42 States, the District of Columbia, and 24 foreign countries. These addresses are now classified alphabetically, by States, by cities, by sex, by schools, and by classes.

TEACHING STAFF

1. Number and distribution of teachers.-There were 241 members of the teaching staff during the school year 1934-35, of whom 134 were on full time and 107 were on part time, representing together a full-time equivalent of 156 teachers, as compared with a total of 237 members of the teaching staff during the year 1933-34, of whom 135 were on full time and 102 were on part time, representing together a full-time equivalent of 154 teachers. This represents a loss of 1 full-time teacher and the gain of 7 part-time teachers, representing a net full-time equivalent gain of 2 teachers. 2. Number of teachers in relation to the objectives of the 10-year program. The 10-year program for Howard University agreed upon by the Government, sets up certain objectives regarding the ratio of students to teachers in each division of the university. The status of our progress in relation to these objectives is very favorable, there being only two colleges in which the ratio of students to teachers is higher than that provided in the program, namely, liberal arts and music. At present the 225 graduate students are all taught by a group of teachers in liberal arts. This constitutes an additional load for liberal-arts teachers and requires an addition of about nine mature persons to that faculty. On the basis of the program, two additional teachers are needed for music.

While the ratios of full-time equivalent teachers of medicine, law, and religion are adequate, it is apparent that the best work in these schools requires a substantial increase in the actual number of fulltime teachers employed as soon as possible.

3. Teaching hours, class size, and class-hour loads.-Now that the university has been able to acquire a faculty approximately adequate in numbers, we have been able to reduce the number of excessive teaching hours, class sizes, and class-hour loads to a minimum. Throughout the university there are now only 14 classes of more than 50 students each; there are only 14 teachers carrying more than 16 teaching-hours per week, and only 6 teachers with pupil clock-hour loads in excess of 500. While there are as many as 165 classes with students ranging from 16 to 50 each, by far the majority of classes now enroll 15 students or less, and the major portion of the instruction is given by teachers working an average of 12 hours and less and carrying a pupil clock-hour load of 250 hours or less. This is a very favorable quantitative situation for competent instruction of the individual student.

4. Maturity of the Staff.-Of the 156 full time and full-time equivalent teachers on the staff of Howard University during the current year, 32, or 28.5 percent, were professors; 26, or 16.7 percent, were associate professors; 29, or 18.6 percent, were assistant professors; 69,

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