122 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



L. B. Mayne, L. J. Davidson, A. H. Nelson, D. C. Limbaugh, G. S. 

 Greene, Instructors in English. 



F. E. Brown, Instructor in Public Speaking, (winter term). 



Of the teaching staff named above three have been meml^ers of the depart- 

 ment for but one year. These are Mr. Paul R. Brees, Mr. Guy S. Greene, and 

 Mr. Denton C. Limbaugh. 



I engaged Mr. Brees after Associate Professor C. B. Mitchell resigned in 

 the summer of 1920 to accept the professorship of Public Speaking in the 

 Oregon Agricultural College at a salary much larger than we were paying him. 

 Mr. Brees received the degree of Bachelor of Arts from the University of 

 Illinois in 1918. While in the university he was a member of two debate 

 teams which defeated teams from the University of Iowa and the University 

 of Michigan. Before coming to Michigan Agricultural College, Mr. Brees 

 vvas head of the Department of Public Speaking in Friends University, of 

 Wichita, Kansas, where his teams won the championship of the Kansas 

 Intercollegiate Debate League. Mr. Brees has done high-grade work for us 

 in every way. 



Mr. Greene obtained his Bachelor's degree from Hobart College in the 

 spring of 1920. I engaged him for an instructorship before his graduation, 

 and immediately after receiving his degree he entered the graduate school of 

 Cornell University in order that he might take, during the summer, work which 

 would especially prepare him for teaching in the Michigan Agricultural Col- 

 lege. He has proved himself to be a very valuable teacher. 



Mr. Limbaugh, the third new man, has his Bachelor's degree from the 

 Texas Christian University and his Master's degree from the University of 

 Chicago. 



Two members of this year's staff have resigned. Mr. Limbaugh will return 

 to the University of Chicago to continue work for the degree of Ph.D. in Eng- 

 lish. Mr. L. J. Davidson, who came to M. A. C. from an instructorship in 

 the State College of Pennsylvania, and who has been a member of the depart- 

 ment for two years, resigns in order that he may take graduate work in 

 English in the University of Michigan. He spent last summer in graduate 

 work in the university, and he finds that in all probability he can obtain the 

 degree of Ph.D. after one more year, as he now has the degree of Master of 

 Arts from the University of Illinois and a similar degree from Harvard. It is 

 with great regret that I lose Mr. Davidson. During his two years in Michigan 

 Agricultural College he has won the favorable Opinion of those who have come 

 into contact with him. He is by nature and by training especially well 

 adapted to the teaching profession, and is a young man of fine character and 

 influence. 



As in other years, I wish to report to j^ou the outcome of the various con- 

 tests conducted by the English department. The winner of the George E. 

 Lawson Prize Essay Contest this year was Herman E. Segelin, a junior. 

 The title of Mr. Segelin's essay is "Tennyson and Evolution." The essay is a 

 thoughtful and well-^vritten piece of work. It is the outgrowth of a special 

 study of Tennyson which Mr. Segelin made in the summer of 1920 after having 

 taken the course in Tennyson in the spring term of that year. This essay is 

 printed in the commencement number of the M. A. C. record. The judges 

 of the contest were Professor S. F. Gingerich of the University of Michigan, 

 Thomas M. Johnson, and Milton Simpson, Professor of English in Kala- 

 mazoo College. 



Both first and second prizes in the Eunomian-Holcad Contest were won this 

 year by Miss Ruth Lechlitner. The first prize of $25, was awarded to her 



