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STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



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East Lansing, 



Respectfully, 



A. R. SAWYER, 

 Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering. 

 Mich., June 30th, 1911. 



REPORT OF THE DRAWING DEPARTMENT. 



President J. L. Snyder: 



Dear Sir: — I herewith beg leave to submit to you my annual report 

 as head of the Department of Drawing and Design for the year ending- 

 June 30th, 1911. 



The work of the department has progressed very satisfactorily, if 

 anything, with better results in the teaching all along the line.* Con- 

 siderable interest was manifested by the women students in their free- 

 hand drawing studies and many inquiries were made by them in regard 

 to electing if possible more work along the same lines. 



I may remind you in my last annual report I recommended the establish- 

 ment of an industrial arts course for the women, so that they may have 

 more options and an opportunity for technical training commensurate 

 with the opportunities open to the men. The indications point very 

 strongly to a demand for this kind of work. I wish to add to what I 

 have formerly said upon this subject that I believe the opening of greater 

 opportunities for the women would not necessarily attract more women 

 to our doors so much as it would a better quality of students, and in- 

 directly contribute to the settlement of other administrative problems. 



In the spring we arranged with the firm of Atkinson, Mentzer & Grover 

 of New York to send us an exhibit of arts and crafts work. It came 

 and proved to be the exclusive work of the School of Industrial Art 

 at Philadelphia, Pa. During its few days' stay it enlisted a great deal 

 of interest both from students and faculty and emphasized the view 

 I have expressed that such work should be available for the women. 



Again I am inclined to be strong in my praises of the esprit de corps 

 of the teaching staff who have done all they could to make the depart- 

 ment work successful and I may add that we are fortunate in getting such 

 good work from them when commercial positions at higher salaries invite 



