DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 



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THIRD TERM.— Beginning August 30, 1876. 



All the students have had regular exercises in composition and declamations. 



Since the issue of the last report, the College has lost, by death, a member of 

 the last year's Freshman class, Mr. James C. Iloltom, of Constantino, St. 

 Joseph county. His name does not ajipear in this year's catalogue, but it is 

 known that he intended to take the College course with his class. He was 

 much esteemed as a faithful student, and as a young man of upright life, and 

 much gentleness of sjiirit. 



Lectures have been delivered before the entire College on Wednesday after- 

 noons. The series, still incomplete, has been up to the present date (Sept. 30), 

 as follows : 



March 1. — By Geo. P. Sanford, Esq., Editor of the Lansing Journal, on 

 Christian Element in Civilization. 



March 15. — By Mr. E. C. Carpenter, on the Quadrature of the Circle. 



March 29.— Bv President Abbot : The Study of United States History. 



April 12.— By Dr. Kedzie : A Bar of Iron. 



April 26. — By Professor Fairchild : The Discipline of College Drill. 



May 10, — By Rev. C. R. Wilkins : Reserved Force. 



June 21. — By the Rev. Mr. Day of Ann Arbor: Work. 



July 19. — By Mr. Carjienter: The History of the Locomotive. 



August 2. — By President Abbot: Webster's Reply to Hayne. 



Aug. IG. — By Dr. Kedzie: Food, 



Sept. G. — By Professor Beal: Progress of Horticulture. 



The junior exhibition was held on the afternoon of Tuesday, the 22d of Au- 

 gust, and was participated in by all the seventeen members of the class. The 

 day was pleasant, the audience, as usual, larger than the hall would receive, and 

 the exercises, we believe, creditable to the institution. 



The Alumni of the College held their triennial gathering August 23d, the day 

 after the annual Junior exhibition. Just one-half of tlie one hundred and 



