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no absences are to be recorded those first days following, except one or 

 two throughout the department due to causes in no way related to the 

 fire. Some courses had to be modified because of loss of equipment, but 

 I am sure that the substitutions made resulted in equally beneficial re- 

 sults to the students. 



In general the courses have been conducted iis heretofore with con- 

 tinuous eifort to improve and adapt them to the most modern methods. 

 The new courses Drawing Ic and 2c for landscape gardening students 

 have proved particularly adapted to their needs and are unique I am 

 sure in the breadth of field covered in the short time, and the i-esults 

 in efficiency as shown by the students' work. The instructors should 

 be credited also with having made some valuable changes in the courses 

 in elementary mechanical drawing. I would sum up the situation by 

 saying, w^e have tried to keep up high standards of scholarship through- 

 out, making no discrimination, as I have mentioned in a previous report, 

 between men and women in this respect. 



I would like to mention the need, in mj^ opinion, for a better arrange- 

 ment of schedule of hours so that the teaching force may be used to best 

 advantage. At present there seems to be too much bunching of classes 

 on certain days and at certain hours. I have mentioned this need be- 

 fore, I feel that the whole program deserves very careful and intelli- 

 gent study which it does not now get, owing to the method by which it 

 is put together each term. Concentration of responsibility would help 

 matters I am sure. 



Ketiring this year from my position here and in all probability from 

 the teaching profession in which I have served twenty-three years, I 

 wish to express my appreciation of the College I am leaving. I have 

 spent eight pleasurable years in its service, and have learned to respect 

 its aims and the personnel of its staff verj much. I feel a hearty loyalty 

 to the institution which will live with me. I shall follow its fortunes 

 with keen interest. I believe in its future as a growing and progressive 

 institution along the broadest and most useful lines. Our new President 

 has every opportunity to carry out this plan, familiar as he is with every 

 tradition of the institution, and loving the student body both graduate 

 and under-graduate as he does. 



The following is a table showing the teaching hours and the distribu- 

 tion of the work among the difl'erent instructors. 



Kespectfully submitted, 



VICTOR T. WILSON, 

 Professor of Drawing and Design. 

 East Lansing, Mich., June 30, 1916. 



