REPORTS OF DEPARTMENTS. 



PRESIDENT'S EEPORT FOK 1875. 



As the Faculty make a report to the Board, and as each officer gives an 

 account of what he has done in his department of laboi', my report will relate 

 chiefly to the work especially committed to me. 



In the eighteen mouths since I returned to the college in May, 1874, I have 

 been absent from college duty less than two weeks in all, inclusive of vacation. 

 One of these weeks was spent with the legislature in their excursion to the 

 Northern Peninsula. 



The executive duties of the office of president, and its correspondence, are 

 enough to tax the best abilities of one man, but I have shared in the burden of 

 overwork which the poverty of the institution imposes on all its officers, — a bur- 

 den complained of only that the multiplicity of duties impairs the quality of the 

 work that is done. 



In the class-room I have given tlie Seniors instruction in mental philosophy, 

 in inductive los-ic, and in the constitution of the United States. 



I have had charge of the daily chapel exercises, and of the Sunday afternoon 

 services. The attention and decorum of the students during these exercises are 

 in all resjiects as good as in churches anywhere. The Sunday afternoon services 

 have been conducted as follows : 



Feb. 28, by Rev. A. A. Knappen. 



March 7, by Professor Fairchild. 



March 14, by President Abbot. 



March 21, by Rev. T. P. Prudden. 



March 28, by President Abbot. 



April 4, by President Abbot. 



April 11, by President Abbot. 



April 18, by Rev. D. Crosby. 



April 25, by Rev. Weed (interrupted by fire). 



May 2, by Rev. Weed. 



May 9, by Rev. Augusta Chapin. 



May 16, by Rev. C. R. Wilkins. 



May 23, by Mr. Geo. C. Ewiug, of Massachusetts. 



May 30, by Rev. Mr. Prudden. 



June 6, by Rev. Mr. Lanterman, of Paw Paw. 



June 13, by President Abbot. 



June 20, by Rev. Mr. Spencer. 



