Optional courses are to be offered in the following subjects:

American literature, third term, freshman year.

Greek, freshman, sophomore, and junior years.

Descriptive geometry, freshman year.

Analytic geometry, sophomore year.

Calculus, junior year.

Mechanics of materials, senior year.

Electricity, junior and senior years.

Quantitative chemical analysis, qualitative chemical analysis, organic chemistry, chemical preparations, soils and fertilizers, determinative mineralogy, and assaying, open to students who have had proper preparation in elementary chemistry.

LECTURES.

The following special lectures have been delivered during the year:

In addition, the housekeeping department received produce valued at $4,305.06 as follows: Milk,$3,334.75 meat, $601.36; fruit and vegetables, $177.91; dairy produce, $191.04.

1915.

Statement of the treasurer for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916.

July 1. By balance__

GENERAL FUND.

$1,069. 77

By 2 Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. coupons, at $25_
By 8 Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. coupons, at $22.50_.
By 2 Riggs Realty Co. coupons, at $12.50__

50.00

180.00

25.00

By 6 months' interest to Dec. 31, 1915, on balance in Union
Trust Co.

14. 88

By 6 months' interest to June 30, 1916, on balance in Union
Trust Co --

12.80

1, 352. 45

Aug. 24. To Percival Hall, president, for purchase of Ford automobile___

Dec. 31. To G. X. McLanahan, bookkeeping expenses, treasurer's office, to Dec. 31, 1915

404.75

50.00

1916.

Mar. 7. To American Surety Co. of New York, premium on bond of treasurer to Mar. 19, 1917__.

Apr. 5. To Union Trust Co., rent of safe deposit box to Apr. 16, 1917

June 30. To balance.

$25.00

4.00 868. 70

1, 352. 45

MANUAL LABOR FUND.

1915.

July 1. By balance_.

By 8 Southern Railway Co. coupons, at $25_

By 2 Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. coupons, at $22.50_

$632.90 200.00 45.00

877.90

Oct. 16. To Percival Hall, president, salary of manual training
teacher for 9 months
1916.

360.00

June 28. To Union Trust Co. for check of Union Trust Co. to Percival Hall, president, account of salary of manual training teacher

100.00

By 5 United States 1898 coupons, at $0.75.

By 3 Washington Railway & Electric Co. coupons, at $10__
By check of Columbia Institution for the Deaf, refund of
unused amount of check of Oct. 28, 1915, for $140_.

$174.93

3.75

30.00

8.50

217. 18

Oct. 28. To Percival Hall, president, for frames, repairs, and retouching portraits_‒‒‒

140.00

ESTIMATES FOR FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1918.

The following estimates for the fiscal year to end June 30, 1918, have already been submitted:

For the support of the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, for books and illustrative apparatus, and for general repairs and improvements, $88,200.

For repairs to the buildings of the institution, including plumbing and steam fitting, and for repairs to pavements within the grounds, $6,000.

For the equipment of a printing plant, including typesetting and type-casting machinery, cylinder press, small job press, necessary motors for operating same, stitching and cutting machinery, and other necessary furniture and equipment, $7,000.

An additional $5,000 is asked for current expenses to provide for an additional salary and for increase in the cost of food and material used in the support and upkeep of the institution, $2,000 of the additional sum is asked from the District of Columbia for the maintenance of an increased number of pupils who have already applied for admission and are of school age. An increase of $1,500 should certainly be allowed to provide for the continued increase in the cost of food supplies necessary for the use of the advanced department and for the increased cost of supplies absolutely necessary for the general repairs needed by the institution.

The other $1,500 additional is asked to provide a salary for an instructor in typesetting and for necessary current expenses in operating a first-class printing establishment for the instruction of our students. The elements of printing and even the use of typesetting machinery have been taught in the State schools for the deaf for many years. Printing is one of the standard occupations of deaf men, and a number of deaf machine operators are now earning good salaries in various parts of the country. By giving first-class instruction in the operation of tyepsetting and printing machinery to those of our students who have already mastered part of the work in the State schools, a useful occupation will be at once opened to them. which affords as good or better salaries than those offered in many avenues now open to graduates of our institution.

NEW DORMITORY.

At the close of the fiscal year and during the summer Congress provided $143,000 for the removal of the college women's dormitory and for the construction of a new dormitory to replace it and for the provision of temporary quarters for officers and students of the institution. Arrangements have been made for the temporary care of all those formerly housed in the old building.

In accordance with the appropriation acts, all work in connection with the new building and expenditure of the appropriation is under the charge of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds.

The response of Congress to the pressing need of the institution for safe, modern quarters for the young women of the college has been most gratifying to the board of directors and the alumni and students of the college.

EXERCISES OF PRESENTATION DAY.

The public anniversary of the collegiate department was held in the college chapel on Wednesday, May 3. Rev. Ulysses G. B. Pierce, of All Souls Church, offered the opening prayer.

Orations and dissertation given by members of the graduating class were as follows:

ORATIONS.

Reminiscences of a Shuttlecock, by Frank H. Thompson, of Washington. The Tendency of the University, by Henry J. Stegemerten, of the District of Columbia.

First Impressions, by Amy Alice Fowler, of Kentucky.

DISSERTATION.

The Heart of the Hills, by Ashland Davis Martin, of Kentucky.

Candidates for degrees were presented by Dr. Charles R. Ely, Vice President Fay, and President Hall as follows:

For the degree of bachelor of pedagogy.

NORMAL FELLOWS.

Helen Elizabeth Cam, B. A., George Washington University, District of Columbia.

Lois Ely, A. A., Lindenwood Junior College, Missouri.
Irving S. Fusfeld, B. S., Columbia University, New York.
O. L. McIntire, B. A., Westminster College, Missouri.

Mary Dobyns Deem, State Normal College, Mississippi.

Hon. Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War, addressed the graduating class.

The benediction was pronounced by Rev. Oliver J. Whildin, Episcopal minister to the deaf, Baltimore.

CONFERRING OF DEGREES.

On the closing day of the term, June 21, 1916, degrees and certificates were conferred in accordance with the recommendations of presentation day with three exceptions.

Miss Gladys Clark was granted a certificate instead of the degree of B. L., and the degrees of Messrs. Keeley and Rasmussen were withheld for the completion of certain regular requirements.

The honorary degree of doctor of letters was conferred upon Warren Robinson, a graduate of Gallaudet College of the class of 1884, in recognition of his success as a teacher and editor, and of his untiring efforts to improve the industrial education of deaf people.