DEPARTMENT REPORTS. ,61 



time, as it is impossible to distinjrnisli individual cadets. Unless I ean 

 properly see tlie work going on, it is really wasted time. Another import- 

 ant thing in this connection is that these hours are particularly bad on 

 account of the cadets being tired and worn out with their shot) nn"! class 

 work when they reijort. 1 think the time has come when the Military 

 Department should have the same consideration shown it that any other 

 department of the College has. The matter of a ''drill shed'' is again 

 most urgently requested with the hope that favorable action will result. 

 A drill hall, gymnasium and auditorium, for which purposes the present 

 armory is used, must of necessity interfere with each other. The two 

 departments Military and Athletic should be divorce'^. Goo^l results have 

 been brought about by separate drill ground and athletic field. 



The military spirit and discipline of the corps has improved in a 

 marked degree. 



In arranging the schedule for the last half of the spring term, a day 

 should be set apart for the annual inspection by the War Denartment, 

 similar to those arranged for the Inter Collegiate meetings, so that classes 

 could be stopped, the cadets given time to prenare for this important mat- 

 ter; as it is now, they come out of shop and cla^s work to undergo a hard 

 etrain. Since I have been on duty here no preparation has been made for 

 this annual event. 



Trusting that action will be taken on the recommendations made. 



Very respectfully, 



C. A. VERNOU, 



Major V. S. Armv. 

 June30, IJKia. 



REPORT OF THE DEAX OF SPECIAL COURSES. 



To the President : 



The attendance upon the Special Courses last winter was more than 

 satisfactory. The attendance by courses v.ns as follows: 



General Agriculture 50 



Crenmerv Management 59 



Fruit . .' ' 9 



Beet Sugar 14 



Cheese /. 16 



A greater proportion of the students attending these courses than usual 

 were graduates of high schools. The quality of the work done was con- 

 spicuously good. Most of the young men came here directly from the 

 farm with the expectation of returning to the farm upon the completion 

 of the course; they knew, therefore, both the I'mitot'ons of tli*^iv i-nowl- 

 edge and training and the things required to better fit them for their life 

 work. It would be hard to find a ckifs of students more genuinely 

 enthusiastic than these young men of the short courses. The general 



