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crease in iiiiinbers!, and of the possibility of meeting this need by erect- 

 ing, in the near fntnre, a separate Home Economics Building. 



Respectfully submitted, 

 GEORGIA LAURA WHITE, 

 Dean, Division of Home Economics. 

 East Lansing, Mich., June 30, 1916. 



REPORT OF DEAN OF VETERINARY DIVISION. 



President Frank S. Kedzie, College: 



Sir — I have the honor to submit herewith a report of the Veterinary 

 division for the academic year ending June 30, 1916. 



Faculty and Teaching: The most noteworthy fact as regards the fac- 

 ulty for the past year has been the development of the departments of 

 Veterinary Anatomy and Animal Pathology, together with appropriate 

 recognition of the worth and services of men connected with these 

 phases of work ever since the subjects, under their direction, were added 

 to the courses of study of the division, through placing them. Dr. Frank 

 W. Chamberlain and Dr. E. T. Hallman, respectively, in responsibility 

 and giving them places upon the college faculty. By this action of the 

 State Board of Agriculture the force of the Veterinary division has been 

 augmented to six men entirely engaged in such work as is comprehen- 

 sively grouped under the heads of medicine, anatomy, pharmacology, 

 pathology and surgery; this, natura-lly, is exclusive of instruction stu- 

 dents receive in animal and dairy husbandry, bacteriology, botany, chem- 

 istry, English, entomology, military science, physiology and zoology, work 

 that has not only been efficient, but that has been offered with an evi- 

 dent desire to cooperate and serve the division in a highly commendable 

 manner that is gratefully appreciated. Indeed, the past year has again 

 served to demonstrate the indisputable advantages of having a veterin- 

 ary school at an agricultural college, where the educational requirements 

 meet the larger needs of problems incidental to health and scientific agri- 

 culture, especially as the latter is developed through animal husbandry; 

 furthermore, in this connection is it appropriate to recall that it is the 

 boys from the farm, naturally attracted to the agricultural college when 

 seeking higher education, that, as a class of students, have as a whole 

 the early training and environment which furnish the best basic equip- 

 ment and adaptability for veterinary Avork. 



As was suggested in last year's report the facuHy of the division ur- 

 gently needs additional help to more equally distribute class work, if 

 it is to continue with that high degree of efficiency which has character- 

 ized the work from the first, and to take care of the growing demands 

 incidental to a progressive policy. Naturally, the cost up to this time 

 for maintenance of the division, in proportion to number of students 

 enrolled, may have appeared excessive as compared with other courses; 

 this was due largely to the necessity of supplying equipment essential 

 to an adequate schedule for studying modern veterinary medicine. Witli 

 the steady increase in number of students, as will be shown tabulated 



