Excerpt from Annual Report of the General Agent of the "John F. Slater Fund," 1887 President Cravath reports that 1886 is the best year, in many respects, in the history of the University. In 1885 Col. M. H. Howard, of New York, formerly of Nashville, gave to the University It is hoped by-the management to add enough to this gift to start a school of mechanics and engineering. Presi dent Cravath believes that Col. Howard's gift is an earnest of vigorous help in the future from the people among whom the University has been founded. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.