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WORK OF THE MEMBERS OF THE DEPARTMENT DURINQ THE FALL TERM. 



During the fall term iiiucli of the Avork done by nienib-L-rs of the de- 

 partment was not in immediate connection with the department. The 

 smallness of our enrollment of regular students, combined with the large 

 amoimt of attention given to the S. A. T. (\, necessitated important 

 changes. As no English was given to our unit of the S. A. T. C, it was 

 possible to spare the full time of two teachers. Accordingh', Professor 

 King was for the term transferred to the department of Mathematics, for 

 which he taught daily four classes of the S. A. T. C. Similarh', >\Ir. 

 Hasselman gave his entire time to the Department of Phj'sical Training. 

 Three other teachers gave part time to the Department of History, in the 

 teaching of War Aims. IMr. Weaver taught one section of 27 students in 

 War Aims, in addition to teaching everj- week four two-hour courses and 

 tw^o three-hour courses in English — a total of six classes in English and one 

 in War Aims. Mr. Mayne had two classes in War Aims, of 31 and 47 stu- 

 dents respectively, besides teaching daily three sections of freshman 

 composition for women, the smallest of these sections numbering 20 

 students. The head of the department transferred to Mrs. Roseboom his 

 customary class in elective English for juniors and seniors and taught 

 in their stead three classes in War Aims, of 23, 32, and 44 students re- 

 spectively. As there was an enrollment of but 30 in English 2e, our regu- 

 lar course in freshman composition for agricultural students, he was also 

 able to teach during his term all of the freshmen English given to our st 

 dents of Agriculture. Mr. Lebel and Mr. Van Sprey}:)ropek devoted their 

 entire time to the courses on conversational French given to the S. A. T. C. 

 There were but three members of the department whose instructional 

 work was not wholly or largely determined by the war conditions prevailing 

 at the College. 



THE WINTER AND SPRING TERMS. 



At the beginning of the winter term Professor King and IMr. Hasselman 

 returned to service with the Department of English. The repeating of 

 fall term courses for students who had been in the army necessitated the 

 organization of a considerable number of sections of new classes, and on 

 the whole the work of the two terms was exceptionally heavy for all 

 teachers of English. During the spring term the classes and theme work 

 of some members of the department were made especially heavy by the 

 necessity of relieving Professor King and Mrs. Roseboom of a sufficient 

 amount of teaching to enable them to devote a considerable amount of 

 time and hard work to the out-of-door play and the commencement 

 pageant mentioned further on in this report. Likewise it seemed advisable 

 to relieve Mr. Hasselman of his afternoon class work in order that he 

 might fill temporarily the place left vacant by the resignation of the 

 Director of Publications. 



RESULTS OF CONTESTS. 



Each year I have given in my report the results of contests in which 

 the department is especially interested. This year the Eunomian-Holcad 

 contest was won by Miss Ruth Hudson, H. E. '22, with a poem entitled 

 The Road. Accordingly, Miss Hudson received the prize of $25 provided 

 by the Eunomian Literary Society. There was a tie for second place be- 



