DEPARTMENT REPORTS 67 



KEPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS. 



President Snyder: 



Dear Sir — I have the honor to submit my report for the Department 

 of Physics and Electrical Engineering for the year ending June 30, 1897. 

 The purchase of several minor pieces of apparatus, together with some 

 changes in the arrangement of the rooms used for laboratory work, have 

 made it possible to improve the academic work very much. Placing the 

 work in physics in the early parts of all courses I believe is proving a wise 

 step. While it is not possible to do as advanced work as formerly^ yet it 

 places before all students at the very beginning the fundamental prin- 

 ciples upon which all our courses are established. My work is quite 

 evenly spread out over the year. Upon the basis of all students in College 

 for the past year, a fraction over 8 per cent of total student class hours 

 have been in my personal charge. 



I had the pleasure of delivering four lectures at the Fruit Institute 

 at Shelby. 



The first part of the past year there was completed under my super- 

 vision installation of quite a complete telephone system by the Lansing 

 Telephone Co. An agreement was made between Mr. D. A. Reynolds, 

 manager of and acting for the Lansing Telephone Co., and Sec. I. H. 

 Butterfield, acting for the State Board of Agriculture, essentially as fol- 

 lows: The Lansing Telephone Co. was given the privilege of placing 

 telephones in the College buildings, said privilege to be terminated at 

 any time by the State Board of Agriculture or their agents, the Lansing 

 Telephone Co. agreeing that all wires were to be strung and all poles 

 to be set subject to my approval. In return for the privilege the Lansing 

 Telephone Co. agreed that all wires and poles complete placed on the 

 grounds of the Michigan Agricultural College became the property of 

 the State Board of Agriculture as soon as placed. 



Acting upon your suggestions, I have been working on plans and esti- 

 mates for a College electric light and power plant. 



Most respectfully submitted, 



PHILIP D. WOODWORTH. 



