Excerpt from Biennial Report of the Board of Curators to the Forty-First General Assembly: For the Two Years Ending December 31, 1900 Floyd Bruce Cramer and Martin Edward Elling, students of the University and citizens of Missouri, volunteered with nearly a hundred of their fellow students for the spanish-american War. While in the service of the Government they died. The University community thinks that the Legislature could well afford to place in the Academic Hall a Memorial Tablet to these four voung soldiers. It could probably be done for $50 or $100. It should be done by the State. There have been, to our grief, three deaths from sickness among the students at Columbia, since our last, Report. 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.