DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 119 



There is great need of a new, modern, commodious, chemical laboratory build- 

 ing in order that the work in this science, which is fundamental to all the 

 work of this College may be efficientlj' carried on. 



Forty-nine courses have been offered during the year. The number of 

 students enrolled in the department during the year is as follows; 



Summer Term 192'J : 80 



Fall " 192D 610 



Winter " 1921 772 



Spring " 1921 622 



Total 2984 



Respectful! V submitted, 



ARTHUR J. CLARK, 



Professor of Chemistry. 

 East Lansing, Michigan, June 30, 1921. 



REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND POLITICAL 



SCIENCE. 



President F. S. Kedzie, 

 East Lansing, Michigan. 



Dear Sir : 



I hereby present a short report for the Department of History and Polit- 

 ical Science. The courses of study for the year have been those of the 

 past few 3^ears. 



The department has presented a required course covering the history of 

 Europe during the 19th century to freshmen women and a required course in 

 contemporary European history to sophomore wom.en. We continue to 

 think that as a minimum requirement, these courses are well worth while 

 for all college students. 



Freshman engineers have been given a choice of courses in political science 

 and 19th century histor}^ during the spring term. This arrangement is not 

 altogether satisfactory since it concentrates the work in a single term. We 

 believe students of this division should have opportunity sometime during the 

 four years to get courses in history and political science. 



The balance of the work in the department consists of junior and senior 

 electives in the agricultural and home economics courses. The large elections 

 in the face of the insistent demands of the technical and semi-technical subjects 

 upon the time of the student, is a source of satisfaction to the department 

 staff. The merits of this work, when properh^ taught in college, are, we 

 believe, beyond question. In this attitude we are placing ourselves in 

 accord with educational thought of the time. 



Instruction has been given with two purposes in mind. One, that the work 

 is an essential basis to any well-established superstructure in suljjects involv- 

 ing social and economic aspects, in any large degree, and quite necessarj' to 

 any well-rounded education. Second, that the key to the understanding of 

 much of current doings in the world at any time, m.ust be found in a correct 

 understanding of the past. Guided l5y these two motives, we seek to avoid 



