"The report of Dean Pound for the Law School is especially interesting this year because of a full discussion of the curriculum, its adherence to the policy of laying stress upon the fundamental principles of law, as contrasted with giving the students material for immediate use in their practice, and at the same time its adjustment to the changing condition of the times in the selection of the topics through which those principles are taught. The weight laid on principles rather than practice was the essence of Langdell's system. It has made the reputation of the School and is the source of its strength. The Dean speaks also of the limitation of numbers, which has been forced upon us by their enormous growth. There are now over fifteen hundred students, quite as many as can be properly cared for. This year, he says, six hundred and fifty have been selected from eight hundred and seventy well qualified applicants, resulting in a distinct improvement in the student body.

Business School Capacity

"Like most of the other growing portions of the University, the School of Business Administration has reached a point where it is obliged to limit its numbers. In fact the students now exceed the one thousand which Mr. Baker's buildings were designed to hold. Nor, if possible, would it be wise to increase the size of the classes. The instruction as given here is new, without previous experience as a guide, and time enough has not yet passed to guage the methods employed by the work of the graduates more than a few years after leaving the School. The Faculty is, therefore, constantly experimenting with examinations, tutors and methods of marking, with the object of directing the energy of the students toward those forms of effort that will be for them of the most permanent value; for, as in every other part of the University, the objective should be less acquiring familiarity with technical processes than a firm command of principles. The selection of the best candidates for admission is no simple matter; and in doing it college records alone do not suffice. So far as possible the men are personally seen. In fact members of the staff interviewed seventy-one per cent of the applicants, visiting eighty colleges; and this last figure is not large if we reflect that in the year just past every State was represented in the School, and graduates of two hundred and eleven colleges.

"Owing largely to political conditions that make tenure of office by health officers uncertain, the number of American students in the School of Public Health continues small; but its contributions in other ways are large. The respirator, whereby a patient is confined in a box with carefully regulated conditions of temperature and atmospheric pressure, has proved of such medical value that one hundred and fifty are now in use in the United States and Canada, and they are being taken up abroad. It is, in fact, an example of how unexpected benefits may come from scientific studies. The instrument was devised in studying conditions in the gas and electric industries, and the experiments from which it resulted were paid for by them; but it was found to have a more general application, and has saved lives.

More Buildings

"This report began by describing the completition of the new Houses and of Wigglesworth Hall in the Yard; but they are far from the only buildings finished in the past year. Most of these were mentioned as under construction in the last report. The Faculty Club was opened near the end of the first term, and has proved a valuable adjunct to the amenities of academic life. The indoor athletic building and swimming pool were also opened and fully used, but the identity of the Alumnus Aquaticus who gave the latter is still a mystery. We know he has been there, and hence, while we cannot tell him of our gratitude he has the only true reward of benevolence, that of knowing how much pleasure his generosity has given to those for whom it was intended. The field house given by Mr. Clarence Dillon has also been in use throughout this autumn, and is a vast improvement over the old locker building destroyed by fire.

University Employees

"The employees of the University are now so numerous that a more uniform and comprehensive system has become a necessity. In former times, of smaller things, each dean or director engaged, controlled and paid his employees, and attended to the cleaning and care of the buildings he used, subject to little oversight save in his total expenditure. Gradually the janitor's service, the cleaning and the like have been centralized under the office of the Comptroller, but uniform treatment of employees was not wholly insured. During the past year the Corporation called upon the Industrial Relations Counselors of New York to inspect and report upon the subject. Their most important suggestion was that we should appoint a Director of Personnel Relations, and they recommended for the position Mr. Augustus L. Putnam, the Consultant on Careers, who has accepted the new office without abandoning the old one. In spite of the title the position is mainly advisory, except that all officers are required to send