OG STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



For the fall of 1918 all thought of following our normal schedule was 

 abandoned, but the requirements of the S. A. T. C. program provided 

 plentj^ of work for the teachers of this department. In these soldier classes 

 there was no lack of earnest effort on the part of either instructors or 

 students. In fact, all our teachers marveled at the eagerness generally 

 shown by the students assigned to us for training. This manifestation of 

 desire and receptivity died on the day that the armistice was announced so 

 far as the majority of the students were concerned. They were more than 

 ready to exert themselves to the utmost so long as their training could 

 have possible use in the war program. When that possibility was removed 

 the young men returned to their pre-war lines of thinking. Those who 

 wanted to be phj^sicians, lawyers, dentists or anything else than engineers, 

 lost all interest in matters pertaining to engineering. It was an interesting 

 study to note the remarkable transformation from classes uniformly 

 earnest and purposeful to groups largely indifferent and apparently stupid 

 when judged by the usual standards. 



Both the epidemic of influenza and the military control mixed in with 

 the educational program tended to annoy and confuse us in our attempts 

 at a systematic management of class training. During the whole period 

 of dealing with the S, A. T. C. classes in Surveying and jMapping, the 

 membership of no class appeared the same on two consecutive days. 



About two weeks before the S. A, T. C. class work was taken up on 

 October 1, 1918 this depa;rtment had been given general directions con- 

 cerning the character of instruction to be arranged for soldiers and sailors. 

 These instructions came from the war committee on education. From the 

 same source we received assurances that other information would be 

 supplied "in a few days" regarding outlines of courses, sample exercises 

 and the like. It would have been fatal to wait for the promised material, 

 and it is interesting to note that practically none of it arrived in 1918, 

 while quantities of it did appear about the 1st of May 1919, more than five 

 months after the armistice and nearly as long after the S. A. T. C. had 

 become only a memory. 



Courses had been prepared by the department, however, and such 

 other preparations had been made that when the S. A. T. C. contingents 

 were assigned to the department they found ready vigorous courses in the 

 subjects taught in this department. We had been directed to prepare 

 and did prepare for a special contingent under the vocational program, to 

 whose members we were expected to give special training in topographical 

 surveying. This contingent never arrived. 



The department teaching staff for the year included the names listed 

 below in the order of seniority of appointment. There were no changes 

 or withdrawals during the year. 



H. K. Vedder, C. E., Professor of Civil Engineering. 



C. A. Melick, D. C. E., Associate Professor of Civil Engineering. 



C. M. Cade, C. E., Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering. 



R G. Saxton, C. E., Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering. 



W. W. Hitchcock, C. E., Instructor in Civil Engineering. 



B. K. Philp, C. E., Instructor in Civil Engineering. 



H. M. Ward, B. S., Instructor in Civil Engineering.' 



(On leave for military service). 



By reason of his service in the PhilUpine Constabulary, covering a period 

 of about three years, Mr. H. M. Ward became eligible to a commission in 

 the United States Army, and was appointed a Second Lieutenant in the 



