DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 



REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT. 



To the Honorable State IJoard of Agriculture: 



I bej? leave to submit herewith my annual report for the year ending 

 June 30, 1903. With this report will also be found the reports of heads 

 of the different departments of the College. 



The past year has been one of unusual progress in the history of the 

 College. The attendance was much larger than eyer before; the total 

 enrollment numbering 854. The class rooms and teaching force of some 

 departments were taxed almost to the extreme limit, yet good work 

 was done, and on the whole yery satisfactory progress made by 

 students. 



At the beginning of the year was inaugurated a course in Forestry. 

 This course is the same in length as the other full courses and leads to 

 the same degree. It is the purpose to give a few young men such train- 

 ing as will enable them to render valuable service to the State in taking 

 care of and developing its large tracts of unproductive land. 



ADDITIONS AND CHANGES IN FACULTY. 



Mr. C. F. Wheeler, who had been assistant professor in botany for 

 a number of years, resigned at the close of last year to accept a respon- 

 sible position in the Department of Agriculture at Washington. Mr. 

 Wheeler's services were very valuable to the College. In systematic 

 botany he has few if any equals in this country. He is a fine teacher, 

 and in the fullest sense a cultured gentleman. Prof. J. B. Daudeno, a 

 graduate of Harvard, was elected to fill the position vacated by Prof. 

 Wheeler. 



After five years of faithful and very efficient service as instructor in 

 music, Mrs. 3Iaude Marshall resigned, and Miss Louise Freyhofer. a 

 graduate of Berea College, Ohio, was selected to fill her place. 



Mr. R. S. Shaw, professor of agriculture, Montana Agricultural Col- 

 lege, was elected professor of agriculture to fill the vacancy caused by 

 the resignation of Prof. Herbert Mumford one year before. 



Prof. E. E. Bogue, a graduate of Ohio State University, and also of 

 Harvard University, was placed at the head of the new department of 

 forestry. 



Dr. Robert C. Kedzie, who had charge of the department of chemistry 

 for nearly forty years, passed away on November 7, 1902. At the begin- 

 ning of the year, at his own request, he was relieved of all responsibility 



