the men in this branch of work would be amply rewarded. He also conducted his usual classes in the practice of preaching.

Dr. Coffin, Associate Professor in Homiletics, has given four courses, two in Homiletics and two in Pastoral Theology, but the reduced number of undergraduates made it unnecessary for him to divide his homiletical classes into as many sections as usual, so that he spent fewer hours at the Seminary than in previous years.

No report has been received from Professor Fosdick, who has been abroad since the beginning of February. During the first term he gave his usual course on Brief Sermons with Professor Coffin, and courses on the Use of the Bible in Modern Preaching and on the History of Baptist Principles and Polity.

Mr. Carmody, Instructor in Public Speaking and Vocal Interpretation, reports that the work of his department has been completely reorganized. The main features of the reorganization were as follows:

a. A preliminary test was required of all students entering the Seminary to the end that their needs in the way of Public Speaking and Scriptural reading might be ascertained at the outset and communicated to them.

b. The number of preliminary courses was increased to the end that such needs might be supplied in the speediest manner and nothing be required of any student except the courses which the preliminary test showed the student to be deficient in.

c. A part-time Assistant was added to the teaching force to take care of some of the increased work which the reorganization necessitated, and

d. The more advanced courses were expanded.

The year has proved the advantage of the reorganization, though the number of Juniors electing courses given by the Assistant to meet their special needs, was disappointing. This situation will probably right itself in time when the necessity of taking the preliminary work as a precondition of advanced work in the department has come to be generally realized. The

For the department of Foreign Service Dr. Fleming, the Director of the department, reports eleven courses in Missionary Preparation given in the Seminary during the current year, as compared with ten in 1916-17 and only one in 1914-15, before the department was organized. Of the eleven courses given this year, eight were given by Dr. Fleming and one each by Professors Hume and McGiffert, while Dr. Samuel G. Inman gave a course on Latin America as a Mission Field. Dr. Fleming's report shows that during the year ninety-six Student Volunteers and returned Missionaries have been registered in the Seminary and in Columbia University as compared with eighty-six last year and sixty-six the year before. Three Missionary Fellows have been in residence-William Campbell Kerr, a Missionary of the Presbyterian Church of the U. S. A. in Korea and an alumnus of Auburn Seminary; Sasumu Tajima, Pastor of the Ushigome Church and Assistant Professor of Apologetics in the Meiji Gakuin in Tokyo, Japan; and Harrison King Wright, a Missionary of the Presbyterian Church of the U.S.A. in China. The last two are alumni of the Seminary. For the three Fellowships offered for next year nine applications have already been received. The applicants are of six different denominations and from four countries, China, Japan, India and It is evident that the Fellowships meet a real need, and it is hoped that in the near future their number may be largely

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The Board of Directors granted Dr. Fleming leave for one term of the present academic year that he might visit India as one of a commission of three on Missionary Education in India. Owing to the war, it proved necessary for the Commission to postpone its labors and Dr. Fleming has therefore carried on his work here throughout the year.

Dr. Gillett reports on his varied duties as Registrar and Dean of Students. While the number of undergraduate students has been smaller than usual, the work of his office was not materially reduced because of the increased number of Graduates and of students received on recommendation from affiliated institutions. He announces the early completion of a new edition of the General Catalogue, already authorized by the Board, and reports progress in the preparation of the Catalogue of the McAlpin Library, upon which he has been at work for a number of years.

In the department of Applied Christianity, Professor White reports that no courses have been given, owing to the war work in which he has been engaged with the approval of the Board of Directors. He was also kept from carrying on his duties as Director of Student Field Work, the office being left in charge of the Assistant in the department, Dr. Mark A. May, until the end of March, when he resigned to take up psychological work in connection with the army, with the rank of First Lieutenant. Dr. May's place was taken by Mr. George Perrigo Conger, a Graduate student and Fellow of the class of 1910.

Owing to the changes in the administration of the office, Professor White's report is somewhat less detailed than usual, but it shows in an instructive way the various kinds of practical work undertaken by the students, the number engaged in each kind of work, the compensation received and the like. The demand for student workers has been large and nearly eightyfive per cent of the undergraduates not on leave of absence have been regularly occupied in some form of Christian service. The calls for pulpit supply again show an increase-266 this year as against 217 last year and 161 the year before.

The following table, one of a number appended to the report, shows some of the activities of the undergraduates:

The student body has been somewhat smaller than last year and the year before. The total enrollment has been 260 as compared with 281 for last year and 301 for the year before. The tabulation follows:

Of these thirty-five are on leave of absence on account of the war, one Fellow, one Graduate, thirteen Seniors, fourteen Middlers, three Juniors, one Special student, and two from other institutions, making the number in actual attendance at the time of preparing this report two hundred and twenty-five.

The students whose names appear in the annual catalogue are from 152 institutions, from 31 states and 14 foreign countries. New York has 58, Pennsylvania 27, New Jersey 21, Massachusetts and Ohio 15 each, and Illinois 7; no other state has more than 5; 204 are from the United States, 15 from

Canada, 19 from China, 5 of whom are natives (the largest number of Chinese ever enrolled in the Seminary), and 6 from Japan.

The religious bodies represented number 24. There are 45 Presbyterians, 43 Methodists, 35 Congregationalists, 14 Baptists, 8 Episcopalians, 8 Lutherans, 6 Disciples, 5 Reformed (German) and 2 Reformed (Dutch). Other bodies are represented by one or two students each.

In addition to enrolled students, 87 persons have been received as Guests. The Sunday School has had about 200 pupils of all grades upon its roll, besides 24 officers and teachProfessor Fagnani's Saturday morning Bible Class has had a total enrollment of about 350 and an average attendance of 101, and the Sunday congregations have averaged about 420. The number of persons in daily and weekly attendance upon classes or services at the Seminary has thus averaged somewhat less than 1100.

The health of the students has been on the whole good. There has been less sickness in the dormitory than for some years past and not a single case of serious illness. The Infirmary has remained closed throughout the year. The appointment of a resident physician and physical director has proved an excellent thing and Dr. Walter M. Silleck, who has held the position during the present year, has been reappointed for another year.

Most of the Seniors have already made their plans for the coming year. Two will go directly to the foreign field, one to Turkey and the other to Japan, and a third has already left for Persia with the Commission on Armenian and Syrian Relief, while one man is planning to go to Russia and another to some Bohemian community as soon as war conditions permit. Six men have accepted pastorates, five have applied for positions as Chaplains in the Army, and one has already accepted a Chaplaincy in the Navy; two men plan to continue their studies and one is to take a position as Director of Religious Education. As already said, twelve members of the Senior class are on leave of absence, eleven for work in the army and one as Chaplain in the navy.

Of last year's class about half are in the pastorate, seven are teaching, one is on the foreign field, seven are acting either