Robert G. Wilson Letter to the Board of Trustees Regarding Ohio University in 1837

              To the Board of Trustees of the O.U. 
Gentlemen 
The meeting of the Founders and Patrons 
of this Institution affords us pleasure, as it shows that the 
world is not altogether indifferent to our labors or to our 
Success.  The hope is also gratifying that although we have 
not done as much as we desired; we shall be able to ex- 
hibit evidence to our friends, that something has been con- 
tributed to promote the honor and interest of our Country. 
The whole number of students during the summer term 
has been sixty six: in the College thirty one and in the Acade- 
my thirty five.  Of the college students, two were admitted 
without tuition fees: 29 have paid $348.  Of the Academy 
one was admitted without tuition, and three were admit- 
ted at or after the middle of the term on paying five dollars 
each.  Tuition from the Academy $325. - Amt. [underlined] $673 [end]. 
During the summer we were visited by Dr. Hall of 
Washington City, a celebrated Mineralogist, who spent three 
days in arranging and labeling our Cabinet of Minerals.  They 
had been collected from different quarters, and promiscuously 
thrown together, in a manner which afforded little or no assistance 
to the student.  They are now arranged and marked, so as to afford to 
the learner, every advantage, and the fairest prospect of success in the 
study of that Science.  Dr Hall declined receiving any compensa- 
tion for this service, but permitted us to pay to Mr Taylor, his bill viz 
$8.50. 
At the opening of last term, the price of boarding 
at all the boarding houses was raised, and the price of tuition 
was also increased: this when communicated to the students excited 
some complaint.  To prevent further uneasiness, with the advice of this 
Faculty, I paid the usual fee for [underlined] ringing [end] the bell and [underlined] sweeping [end] the