ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. 91 



OUTSIDE WOKE. 



During the iiutnmu of '84 I delivered addresses upon subjects relating to live 

 stock before the Shorthorn and Holsteiii associations of this State. In the 

 winter I lectured at three Farmers' Institutes, and in my turn I delivered the 

 Wednesday afternoon lecture at the college. I also attended to the veterinary 

 requirements of the animals in the horticultnral and agricultural departments, 

 of this institution. 



I prepared and issued a bulletin, as required by an act of the Legislature re- 

 cently adjourned. In July of this year 1 Avas ai:)pointed State Veterinarian by 

 the Governor of the State, since which time I have attended to the several 

 matters required in that office. 



r wish to add that the very liberal appropriation given to the Veterinary De- 

 partment by the Legislature of 1885 will enable me to conduct my various ex- 

 ercises at the college with, I trust, very much greater benefit to those students 

 who may elect this study as part of their college course, as the building now in 

 course of erection will be equipped with models, instruments, dissecting and 

 operating rooms, and other materials, with which I can readily illustrate my 

 lectures much better than I have ever been able to do in the past. 



Very respectfully submitted. 



E. A. A. GRANGE, 



Aghicultdral College, Sept. 1, 1885. 



Professor of Veterinary Science. 



REPORT OF THE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. 



To the President: 



I have the honor of submitting the following brief report of my work for the 

 year 1884-5: 



A year ago, a change was made in the English course owing to the evident 

 necessity, that our Freshmen should be equipped with a better knowledge of 

 English before beginning the study of rhetoric; and it was my duty to give the 

 class then entering, instruction in such topics as should most fully prepare them 

 for subsequent work. The Freshmen, with a few specials, made a class of fifty- 

 eight, and were taught in two divisions, ^hitwe'^^s, Essentials of English v: us 

 used as a text-book. Beginning with the structure of the simple sentence, the 

 class was led step by step through all the varieties of English construction, be- 

 ing required not only to explain the examples furnished in the text-book, but 

 to bring in for discussion those of interest, found in their general reading. 

 Then the general principles of etymology were taken up, with reference to 

 derivation and composition. Therverb, with its peculiarities of formation, was 

 given special attention. A little book of Shakespearean selections in Clark 

 and Maynard's English classic series, furnished the text for analysis and pars- 

 ing, the last month of the term. The wisdom of the change in the course was 

 fully vindicated when the class took up rhetoric in the summer term. 



My other Avork during the full term, was elocution with the Freshmen, Shake- 

 speare readings with Juniors, and English literature with the Seniors. The 

 freshmen met in sections six times a week, for voice culture, drill in position. 



