DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 



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REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY. 



President J. L. Snyder, 

 E. Lansing, Michigan. 



Dear Sir — According to tlie custom I Iierewitli present my report of 

 the Chemical Department for the current year: 



The accompanying schedule shows the classes held and the number 

 of students registered in each class. 



FALL TERM, 1908. 

 Classes. No. of students. 



General Chemistry: 



Engineers (Freshmen) 183 



Agricultural and Forestry (Freshmen) 13.3 



Women (Sophomores) 43 



359 



Organic Chemistry; 



Agricultural (Sophomores) 76 76 



Total 435 



WINTER TERM, 19(19. 



Classes. No. of students. 



Mineralogy, Chemistry 5a (Freshmen) 162 



Qual. Anal., women — Chemi.stry 2 (Freshmen) 40 



Qual. Anal., men — Chemistry 2 (Freshmen) 130 



Agricultural Chemistry 4 (Junior elective) 33 



Dairy Chemistry, Ag. lie, (Senior elective) 9 



Total 374 



SPRING TERM, 1909. 



Classes. • No. of students. 



Engineering Chemistry 5b (Freshmen) 170 



Quant. Anal., Chemistry 5 (Senior elective) 16 



Domestic Science Chemistry 4, women (Senior elective) 12 



Animal Nutrition, Ag. 5a (Senior elective) 14 



Organic Chemistry 3, women (Sophomores) S3 



Total 245 



In addition to the work with the regular college students above 

 scheduled a series of twenty-four lectures was delivered .during the 

 first eight weeks of the winter term to a class of eighty-five short 

 course students on simple chemisti-y of the farm. At the close of the 

 course a brief revicAV and an examination was given. 



The average number of students per term doing laboratory work and 

 receiving instruction was 3.50. To do this necessitated so far as lectures 

 are concerned, a repetition of the work in General Chemistry, the same 

 lecture of necessity being given three times. The number of lectures in 

 General Chemistry wa.s cut from five to three per week and in place of 

 the two lectures thus omitted a quiz hour was held which I found has 

 been of much benefit to the students. The year 1908-1909 has given us 

 the largest number of students to handle and indicates very clearly to 



