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front of Abbot Hall to accommodate the large amount of travel between 

 the street car station and faculty row, and the armory; a third place is 

 from the east door of Wells Hall to connect with the main walk. 



During the last ten years a considerable amount of shrubbery has been 

 planted on the grounds, but it has been for the most part about the newer 

 buildings, and many portions are still quite bare. The work should be 

 continued until it has been completed. 



Respectfully submitted, 



L. R. TAFT, 

 Professor of Horticulture and Landscape Gardening and Superintendent 

 of the Horticultural Department. 



Agricultural College, Mich., 

 June SO, 1902, 



REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND CIVIL 



ENGINEERING. 



To the President: 



Sir — So far as this department is concerned the year past may be 

 characterized as one of exceptional activity and of fairly satisfactory 

 results. Student sentiment has never been better, and it is jointly due 

 to this fact and to the zeal and adaptability of our instructors that 

 so much has been accomplished under rather adverse circumstances. 

 Changes in our teaching force contributed to our difficulties, and sick- 

 ness among the students interfered with satisfactory progress of the 

 classes to a greater extent this year than for many years before. Epi- 

 demics of mumps and measles kept very many students out of classes for 

 weeks at a time. 



Assistant Professor W. Babcock, Instructor L. L. Locke and Instructor 

 A, H. Parrott have continued in their respective positions. Mr. Locke 

 will leave us at the end of the year to accept a position in Adelphi 

 college, Brooklyn, N. Y. Mr. S. E. Brasefield was appointed instructor 

 for the year and served until the fifth week of the winter term, when 

 he withdrew to take a position in Lafayette college. Upon his retirement 

 a readjustment was made in the work of instruction and Mr. Paul Thayer, 

 a postgraduate student, was employed as assistant for the rest of the 

 term. At the beginning of the spring term Mr. A. T. Swift was appointed 

 instructor and entered upon his duties, but upon being offered a desir- 

 able business position he requested that he be relieved. His resignation 

 was accepted at the end of the fifth week of the spring term, and the 

 work assigned to him was thereafter shared by Mr. R. L. Yates, a junior 

 student of the college, and Mr. A. E. Kocher, a senior. The changes 

 enumerated no doubt had the effect of somewhat lowering departmental 



