DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 



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matter of Club Ijoarding facilities. Extensive improvements had just 

 been made in the building in relation to its dining-room and kitchen 

 facilities and the effects of the loss are serious when we consider the 

 present and future needs of the College. It is, however, to be hoped 

 that for the coming two years the facilities provided in the East Lansing 

 dining halls and cafes will, together with the large facilities now existing 

 in Wells Hall provide for our needs of the men. 



(It is of interest to note that Williams Hall was occupied as a dormitory 

 for just fifty years and was the first building heated by steam erected on 

 the campus. At the time it came into use the college attendance for the 

 year totaled seventy-nine — eleven seniors, thirteen juniors, twenty-seven 

 sophomores and twenty-eight freshmen. The average age of all the 

 classes varied from twenty to twenty-two years.) 



The bell which has for the last twenty years, sounding from the tower 

 of Williams, wakened the student to his daily duties, was lost with the 

 building. A series of electrically controlled clocks were installed in the 

 various buildings early in March and so far seem to fill our requirements for 

 time service. 



The small gymnasium room in the women's building having become 

 inadequate for the needs of our increased attendance of young women and 

 greater facilities being needed for lecture-room purposes, this room was 

 converted into an amphitheatre lecture-room for Home Economics. To 

 provide for the physical training of our young women, the new Gymnasium 

 was requisitioned for their use in the forenoon for five days in the week and 

 as a result the young women have had during the past six months the 

 best facilities for physical training that they have ever enjoyed. A special 



