The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-01
Acting President Of Auburn
 Institute Presents Report

Auburn, May 3f.-(SpeciaD .-Actina President C. B. Ross today presented 1 his report to the trustees of the Ala bama Polytechnic Institute. Following is a summary of the report:
 The enrolment of students during the ] present college year exceeds by Tar the i attendance in any previous session, a total of 1.273 having registered for the session. as compared with 935 students for the year 1916-17, the largest number registered during any pre-war year. Statistics compiled in the registrar s office show the following facts concern | ing the registration of students this ses- sion
 Enrolment by classes: Graduate stu dents, 6: senior class 1SS: junior class, l 15S; sophomore class, 246; freshman class, 355; special students, 46; pre'med- ical students. 49; pharmacy course, 45; auto mechanics course, 15: special course l in agriculture %; applied electricity, IT. soldiers (enlisted R. O. T.. e, 2o vo- cation students rehabilitation, lS'' TO- tai (excluding dupicates). 1.T'3 | This enrolment is distributed through the different departments of the college ! as follows: College of engineering ana l architecture (Arch. 29), 6i3; college or agriculture, SIP: general course, lzo' school of education 21S; college of vet erjnarv medicine 60: department or pharmacy. 55; pre-medical course S'' Total (excluding duplicates), l,zf5. Fifteen states, one foreign country anu every county in Alabama are represented in. the enrolment as follows Alabama 0T1. Georgia, 75: Florida, 8; Louisiana 25; Mississippi, 2i; South Carolina, F. Tennessee, II; North Carolina, G. Vir- ginia, 9 Kentucky, 2; New Jersey, Y Texas. 2; Arkansas. ?; New 1ork, l. Pennsvlvania I. Cuba ?.
 DEGREE COURSES Registration by degree courses was as follows: Electrical engineering, 225 : mechanical engineering. 126; civil en- gineering, s9; chemical engineering, 9s' architecture 21: agriculture, 206; agrl- cultural education. 42; general course, 105 vterinary medicine, 49; phar- macy. Az.
 ENROLMENT SUMMARY
 Summer session 1919, 369; farmers summer school. 1919, 507; summer school for vocational agricultural teachers, 33 regular session, 19l9-2o' 1,273. Total. 2.1S2.
 The largely increased attendance during the present college year. ex- ceedng by far any expectations of the college authorities, necessitated an in crease in the teaching staff of the in- stitution during the first few weeks of the session and this increase in the working force of the college, while ab- solutely necessary, involved a very ap- preciable increase in the salary list as well as in the maintenance expenses. LEGISLATIVE APPROPRIATIONS
 As a result of the action of the re- cent legislature substantial increase in the maintenance funds of the insti- tuition was made, the general main tenance fund being increased by S150oQ for 1919-20, s25.O0o for l920-21 s350oo for 1921-22, $4500o for 1922-23. while S10, 900 annually was appropriated for the department of animal husbandry for the first two years of the quad rennium, and $12.500 for the next two years of the> period.
 Additional appropriations were also provided for experiment station inves tigations to the amount of 5000 per