58 STATE BOARD OP AGRICULTURE. 



Tlie figures given do not include the students regularly employed on 

 the Jirounds or in the city. The farmers called for help, often more than 

 we could find. 



The students were paid from 15 to 20 cents an hour for their labor 

 and so far as we are able to learn, the work was satisfactorily done 

 and proved of great assistance to the students, I feel that this is a 

 valuable movement and that if possible Mr. Loree should be employed 

 to take charge of it for another year. He understands the work now 

 and has an acquaintance which will enable him to handle it more effec- 

 tively and with better satisfaction to all concerned. 



Respectfullv submitted, 



WALTER H. FRENCH, 

 Professor of Agricultural Education. 

 East Lansing, June 30, 1911. 



REPORT OF DEAN OF ENGINEERING. 



Dr. J. L. Snyder, President, Michigan Agricultural College: 



Dear Sir: — I present herewith my fourth annual report as Dean of 

 Engineering. 



The persfonnel of the several departments is given in the respective 

 reports. There are thirty-one (31) teachers of all grades in the de- 

 partments of the Division of Engineering. Inter-department relations 

 have been pleasant and helpful. The organization designated as the 

 Faculty of the Division of Engineering does not "•fill a long felt want" 

 owing to lack of authority or power in the administrative machinery 

 of the college. The general faculty or the Board of Agriculture should 

 assign to the division faculties definite authority in the administration 

 of the included departments in order that these faculties may serve the 

 purpose designated of giving to assistant professors and instructors 

 a measure of interest and responsibility iu the affairs of the departments 

 and of the college. 



The student enrollment in engineering was 481, a smaller number 

 than last year, the shrinkage being in the sub-freshman year. There 

 was a gain in enrollment in the four years above the sub-freshman. 



The course of study has been revised, as in the other divisions, in 

 accord with the instructions of the general faculty to reduce the credits 

 to twenty (20) per week, the object being to give opportunity for bet- 

 ter work by concentration in fewer subjects. The new course has been 

 published in the catalog. Solid geometry has been made an entrance 

 requirement for all courses and the sub-freshman course has been revised 

 accordingly. The i)ractice of giving professional technical work to sub- 

 freshmen engineers has been discontinued. 



The matter of salaries, which has been i^reseuted in previous reports 

 is still a live and serious question. The writer is gratified over the 

 merited advance granted to Professor Yedder and to Professor Poison 

 and the small advances for other men and positions. The salary scale, 

 however, is far below that recommended in my first annual report, which, 



