DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 55 



iii this department, and I take pleasure in recording my sincere and hearty 

 appreciation of her exceptionally brilliant work. To fill the vacancy thus 

 created, and to cover the work done by Miss Davis and Miss Benton, 1 

 recommend that Mr. King be advanced to the position of assistant pro- 

 fessor of English, that Mr. L. W. Sawtelle, B. S., of Chicago University, 

 be elected instructor in English, German and French, and that $500 be 

 set aside for the payment of essay readers as necessity should arise. These 

 arrangements were sanctioned by yourself and adopted by the Board of 

 Agriculture. They do not increase the aggregate outlay of money for 

 the department, and by thus shifting to the essay work the contingent 

 employment of subsidiary help, I am sure that the efficiency of the work 

 of the department will be increased. 



The only change made during the year in the character of the work 

 was in English 1. Instead of devoting the five hours of the first term of our 

 work to the study of elementary English grammar, as heretofore, I 

 required the entrance examination to cover that work fully, and used the 

 time of this term in studying the powers and values of the various forms 

 of the English sentence, its clauses and phrases, for the expression of 

 thought. The work has been heartily entered into by the members of the 

 department. 



The addition of a year to the agricultural and women's courses has 

 made it necessary to rearrange the order of English work, and accord- 

 ingly, for the coming year, I have placed in the sub-freshman year of all 

 the courses (except for the fact that in the mechanical course the total 

 time allotted to English in the sub-freshman year is less by two hours than 

 in the other two courses) English la (three hours), English lb (three 

 hours), English 2a (two hours), English 2b (two hours), English 2c (two 

 hours), and English 2d (three hours). This will enable students to begin 

 their English work in all the four-year courses at the point where the 

 better class of high schools will leave them. 



Respectfullv submitted, 



HOWARD EDWARDS, 



Professor. 

 Agricultural College. Mich., 

 June 30, 1902. 



