DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 71 



Class work of the department of mathematics and civil engineering. — Concluded. 



Class. 



Seniors . 

 Seniors . 



Seniors. 

 Seniors . 

 Seniors . 



Seniors . 

 Seniors . 



Subject. 



Masonry & arches. . . . 

 Masonry & arches. . . . 



Pavements 



Thesis 



Contracts & Specifica- 

 tions 



Road con.'truction . . . 

 Road construction . . . 



Teacher. 



Prof. Hadden 

 Mr. Wendt. . . 



Prof. Vedder. 

 Prof. Vedder. 



Prof. Vedder. 

 Prof. Hadden 

 Prof Hadden 



Classroom. 



304Eng. Bid?.. 

 300 Eng. Bldg.. 



Ill Eng. Bldg.. 

 10a Eng. Bldg.. 



Ill Eng. Bldg . 

 10;;, 104 Eng. B 

 lOiJ Eng. Bldg.. 



No. of 



students 

 in class. 



10 

 12 



31 

 26 



25 

 13 

 13 



The following text books liave been nsed in our classes during the 

 year: Allen's Railroad Curves and Earthwork ; Merrinian and Jacoby'.'S 

 Roofs and Bridges, Vols. I, II, III; Hodgnian's Land Sni-veying and 

 Vedder's Notes on Surveying; Church's Mechanics; Tanner & Allen's 

 Analytic Geometry; Beeman & Smith's Academic Algebra for all be 

 ginning classes formed by women and agricultural students; Well's 

 Text Book in Algebra for engineering students; Wentworth's Geom- 

 etry; Young's Elements of Astronomy; Murray's Differential Calculus; 

 Ashton and Marsh's Trigonometry ; Beeman & Smith's Higher Arithme- 

 tic ; Baker's Masonry Construction ; Johnson's Theory and Practice of 

 Surveying; Jone's Logarithm Tables; Waddel & Wait's Specifications 

 and Contracts; Baker's Roads and ravements. 



The total expenditure by the department during the year for all 

 purposes has been |4,405.4o of which .fl44 was turned in for special ex- 

 aminations. 



Respectfully submitted, 



H. K. VEDDER, 

 Prof. Mathematics and Civil Engineering. 

 East Lansing, Mich., June 30, 1909. 



REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ELECTRI- 

 CAL ENGINEERING. 



President J. L. Snyder: 



Dear Sir — The past year has been one of financial stringency so that 

 the department has made strenuous efforts to avoid going backward. 

 Not very much equipment has been added during the past year. Owing 

 to the fact that our senior electrical engineering class has existed for 

 the first time it made it quite difficult as we had not the equipment for 

 alternating current laboratory work which we should have had, also 

 in the spring term the work in physics had to be modified from that 

 called for by the schedule as we had not sufficient teachers to carry out 

 the program. The agricultural and Avomen freshmen did not take 

 laboratory work but occupied equivalent time with recitation work in- 

 stead. 



During the past year there have been in the department Mr. W. L. 



