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certain wide-spread institutions and activities of society not found 

 properly within the limits of any of the courses thus far described. I 

 refer to such activities as the care of the poor, the criminal, and the 

 defective classes; religious and educational movements; organized ef- 

 forts for improving the conditions of living, as undertaken by the 

 grange, farmers' clubs, and civic improvement societies, — in a word, 

 the subject-matter found in the study of sociology, I sincerely hope 

 space may soon be found in our curriculum for presenting a course in 

 sociology to the students in all the departments, or at least to some of 

 them. 



It is becoming more insistent each year that a prime need of this 

 department is a regular class room for its work. The scattering of 

 maps and other illustrative material through four or five borrowed 

 class rooms, as is now our necessity, is obviously neither economical 

 for the college nor convenient for the department. The necessity of 

 going from department to department at the beginning of each term, 

 borrowing these class rooms, is likewise full of inconveniences. 



It gives me great pleasure to commend the services of Mr. Ryder as 

 assistant in this department during the past year. The work in politi- 

 cal science and much of the history was under Mr. Ryder's care, and 

 there seems to be no merit of worth that he did not supply in teaching 

 these subjects. 



Very respectfully, 



WILBUR O. HEDRICK, 

 Professor of History and Economics. 



Agricultural College, June 30, 1906. 



REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ELECTRI- 

 CAL ENGINEERING. 



To President J. L. Snyder: 



The work of this department has been carried along during the past 

 year very well. Messrs. Curtis, Burk and Morgan have all done very 

 efficient work. We have had to have some student assistants also in 

 order to carry the work. The different arrangement of the laboratory 

 as mentioned in my last report was completed and we have not been 

 crowded during the year for laboratory space, although we have had 

 less students this year than the year previous. We are hoping to give 

 more efficient instruction and have our laboratories properly equipped 

 on entering the new building, — until that time we shall be more or less 

 inconvenienced for lack of recitation rooms. 



Yours very truly, 



A. R. SAWYER, 

 Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering. 



Agricultural College, June 30, lOOG. 



