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and made Professor Emeritus. His son, Prof. Frank C. Kedzie, who 

 had been his able assistant for a number of years, was given full charge 

 of the department. 



Dr. Kedzie was a great man and did a great work. It is pleasant to 

 record that the Alumni have already taken measures to bring about the 

 erection on the campus of a suitable memorial. Can we not hope that 

 the College, in the not far distant future, may give to one of its new 

 buildings the name which has for so many years brought honor and 

 credit to the institution? 



IMPROVEMENTS. . 



There have been completed during the year two buildings, both 

 models of their kind — a bacteriological laboratory and a bath house for 

 young men. Other buildings are very much needed, especially an engi- 

 neering building and library and auditorium. The College could expend 

 at once to good advantage five hundred thousand dollars in buildings. 



It is the purpose to install, during the coming year, a new heating and 

 electric lighting system at a cost of over one hundred thousand dollars. 



Commencement week of this year was one of unusual pleasure. The 

 fourteenth triennial reunion brought back two hundred twenty-five 

 alumni. It does one good to stand on the side and see the old boys meet 

 again. 



The baccalaureate sermon was given this year by the Kev. J. M. 

 Barkley, pastor of the Forest Avenue Presbyterian Church, Detroit, 

 and the commencement address was delivered by Mr. Frank Miller, 

 editor of the ''American Machinist," New York City. 



The graduating class was the largest in the history of the College, 

 numbering sixty, with two additional who received in course the degree 

 of master of science. 



