New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-05
DIR. ROBINSONS LAST REPORT.
READ AT THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
BROWN CORPORATION.
UNIVERSITY BUSINESS TRANSACTED BY THE
BoARD-sUMMARY OF THE RETIRING
PRESIDENTS REPORT.
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Providence, Sept 4.-The corporation OF Brown
University held their annual meeting yesterday, the
Inesident, the Rev. f. b. Andrews, presiding
over the Board of Fellows, having been introduced
by the retiring president DIR. Robinson. The seven
tenth annual report of Dr. Robinson was presenied
The Rev. DR.. Samuel White Duncan of Haverhill,
Mass, was elected Fellow in place of Professor
William Gammcu, deceased. The new gymnasium
and astronomical observatory will be erected at once
Professor Albert G. Hardness Of Madison University,
was elected associate professor Of Latin Professors
Lincoln and Hardness give up part oil their WORK
A minute having reference to the resignation OF Dr.
Robinson unanimously passed In II the cor
poraton place upon their records their appreciation
of the fidelity, industry and ability with whch ne
has performed the duties of tbs presidency for the
last seventeen years. The corporation adjourned to
meet the Thursday after commencement at June,
1890.
specia interest attaches the report OF President
Robinson as the last of seventeen reports made by him
| to the corporation during his administration, whlch
| terminated September 3. Recognizing the guiding
hand of Providence during the year Of his service the
retiring president says: Experience prompts inquiry
into what may help to promote the interests OF the
| university I'm the future" and this question the
| report is largely taken up in answering.
| DIR. Robinson expresses his conviction that the
university in common with all the colleges OF the
country needs full corp of skilful professors ana
instructors the number depending partly on the
number of students attendance and still more on the
number OF subjects proposed to De taught lie as
rotation in office The tacl, assumption tha1
evils And hardly less mischevous in the long run,
| adds DR.. Robinson, is the assumption that all kinds
Of instruction. good, bad and Indifferent, are entitled
| TO the same rate of compensation"
| What. in the estimation OF the retiring president
ought 10 be the religious character of college faculty
IS illus very positively set forth A college iac uty
ought to consist only of men who have clear decided
| bVfc In oh
| radical harm to young minds than a teacher who is
sceptloal in spirit and unsettled. in his moral and re
The report urges the importance of having every
department. and professorship come under the super
tained a lust recognition of the relative value and
of the differing methods of different departments of
earnestly vindcates the plan of laboratory work so
successfully carried out in Brown University aludns
Hall and the astronomical observatory, about to be
erected, the latter being the munitcent 5000 sitt
able period a botanical garden and Rhode Island
arboretum will be started on what is known as The
The circumstances which led TO the comforting at
the late commencement of the degree OF Doctor of Phil
versity are referred to somewhat in detail, and the
hope is expressed that hereafter the University may
Who have proved themselves worthy to receive T.
| A 81 600 scholarship has been founded by Hon:
Hornewio Gates Jones, of Philadelphia to be called
the Rufus Babcock Scholarship in memory of Mr..
Joness wife, the late Caroline Vassar Babcock Jones
who was the eldest daughter of DR.. Babcock. The
sum Of SEA 272 II is in hand for the new gymnasium
Plans for the building have been procured, site
selected and it is expected that the work Of erection
Will soon be begun.
The plan of admitting to tho freshman class on
certificates from schools known TO do thorough work,
has worked well in the University and its continuance
| is recommended.
After alludlng to some other matters Of interest
President Robinson closes this. his last report. with
these words: In resning the presidency Of the
University retire with the consciousness Of having
labored honestly for its best interests and with the
conviction that while its progress from which
ought never to have existed, has not been all that
| had labored and hoped for, there has nevertheless
been an advance in the kind and extent Of its work
1t has been more in favor with those who are
disposed to supply IL with needed funds than II now
is and # never had better prospect of usefulness
and Of patronage from all parts of country than
has recently been opening before IT,"