DEPARTMENT OF PLANT PATHOLOGY 



TEACHING 



During the year 1911-1912 instruction has been offered in eight courses, 

 including those offered to regular students in Summer School. The 

 teaching staff' has consisted of six members, an increase of one over 

 the previous year. The total number of students registered for these 

 different courses was 206, of which 65 were winter-course students and 

 17 were students taking the courses offered during the summer term, 

 leaving 124 registrations in the regular undergraduate and graduate 

 courses. The number of graduate students in the Department again 

 shows an increase. There were 15 students registered for a major for 

 the degree of Ph.D., as compared with 12 in 1910-1911; 13 doctorate 

 students with a minor in the Department, as compared with 15 in 

 1910-1911. There were i major and 1 minor for the master's degree. 

 This increase in graduate students continues to be due largely to the 

 increasing demands for research and demonstration work by associations 

 of growers, and the like, which provide fellowships requiring properly 

 trained college graduates. The increasing demand for trained men in 

 phytopathological work is also responsible for increased registration of 

 college graduates for this work. 



The floor space devoted to the use of graduate students during the past 

 year was less than twelve hundred square feet, an average floor space of 

 eighty square feet per student. It is evident that under such conditions 

 satisfactory work can hardly be expected. It should be pointed out that in 

 •nearly every case the graduate students are holders of industrial fellow- 

 ships, conducting investigations of direct benefit to the growers of the 

 State and largely supported by funds that the growers have personally 

 provided. It would seem that the State is under some obligation to pro- 

 vide adequate quarters for these men. 



As for the undergraduate work, the same deplorable conditions con- 

 tinue as for the past three years, namely, insufiicient floor space to 

 accommodate the students registering for the elementary course. In 

 1910-1911 forty students had to cancel their registration because of lack of 

 room to accommodate them. This past year (1911-1912) over fifty 

 students had to be turned aw,ay for the same reason. The practical value 

 of some knowledge of plant diseases to students in agriculture is so 

 evident that it would hardly seem necessary to urge adequate provision 

 in the way of space and facilities for teaching all those who apply. 

 Many students have sought for the past three years, with annual dis- 



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