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term while we had 521 students enrolled in the various courses were very- 

 discouraging. The return to more nearly normal conditions during the 

 spring term, however, has been very gratifying and the teaching staff of 

 the department is looking forward with enthusiasm to the coming j^ear. 

 Thirty-five courses have been offered during the past year, practically 

 all of the courses requiring laboratory work as well as recitations or lec- 

 tures. The number of students enrolled in these courses during the year 

 was as follows: 



Summer Session 1918 54 



Fall Term 1918 521 



Winter Term 1919 486 



Spring Term 1919 400 



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 The equipment in our industrial chemistry laboratory has been in- 

 stalled and will be in use during the present summer session. In this labora- 

 tory I believe we have a valuable asset to the institution and to the in- 

 dustries of the State. 



The official record of the members of the staff absent during the year 

 n service is as follows: 



1. Chas. Dodson Ball, Jr., enlisted State College, Pa. Aug. 2, 1917; 

 assigned to Ordnance Dept., Sept. 14, 1917 at Watervliet Arsenal, N. Y.; 

 sailed for France, Jan. 4, 1918; transferred to Chemical Warfare Service, 

 April 11, 1918 and stationed in laboratories at Puteaux, near Paris; dis- 

 charged, Feb. 10, 1919. 



2. Beals E. L. French entered service, March 15, 1918; assigned to 

 duty with Co. F, 302 Engineers at Camp Upton, Me. ; sailed for France in 

 April 1918; transferred to 306 Field Hospital, 77 Division; transferred to 

 Chemical Warfare Service, October 1918; discharged Camp Upton, Feb. 

 3, 1919. 



3. Howard D. Lightbody entered service, April 3, 1918 at Chicago 

 and assigned to Fort Preble, Me., to 6th Recruit Co., and later to Battery 

 E, 72nd C. A. C; transferred to Chemical Warfare Service, July 25, 1918; 

 assigned to Research Battalion, American University, Washington; em- 

 barked for France Sept. 19, 1918 from Camp Merritt on U. S. S. America; 

 disembarked at Brest, Sept. 29, 1918; entrained for Chaumont; assigned 

 as Field Chemist to Headquarters, 2nd Army Corp and joined this or- 

 ganization October 10, in area between Ammen and Albert; March 25, 

 1919 reassigned to Fourth Army Corps in Army of Occupation; May 

 2, 1919 left Germanv for Brest, France having been reassigned to the 

 33rd Division; May 10, 1919 embarked for New York on U. S. S. Mount 

 Vernon; May 19, 1919 disembarked and sent to Camp Mills, L. I.; May 

 30, 1919 discharged at Camp Grant, 111. 



4. Ralph Chase Huston, Captain Sanitary Corps, Laboratory Div. 

 Commissioned Aug. 6, 1918; assigned to Rockefeller Institute; assigned 

 to Yale University Sept. 20; assigned to Camp Polk, Dec. 25, 1918; assigned 

 to U. S. General Hospital No. 19, Oteen, N. C; Discharged Feb. 1, 1919. 



During S. A. T. C. regime A. J. Clark was acting Field Director of 

 American Red Cross. 



Respectfully submitted, 

 ARTHUR J. CLARK, 

 Professor of Chemistry 

 East Lansing, June 30, 1919. 



