72 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



list. Mr. S. C. Hadden bas been made assistant professor of Civil 

 Engineering for the ensuing year, and Dr. C. Gunderson has been ad- 

 vanced to be assistant professor of Mathematics. 



Three of the instructors named, G. James, G. A. Heinrich and C. 

 A. Pierce, have resigned to take up work elsewhere, at the ehd of the 

 college year. 



With the beginning of the fall term, nearly all departmental equip- 

 ment pertaining to the teaching of civil engineering was installed in 

 quarters assigned to the department, in the new engineering building. 

 Here we have found infinitely greater facility and convenience in the 

 conduct of classes in technical work than ever before in the sixteen 

 years I have been in charge of the department. But this statement 

 should not be understood to mean that our present location is either 

 ideal or more than adequate, and while the facilities afforded by the 

 new building are duly' appreciated, it must be apparent that their pro- 

 vision was deferred a long time beyond the real need for them. Nor 

 is the laboratory space now available, convenient in some respects or 

 large enough to comfortably receive the classes which report for in- 

 struction. The room designed for storage of instruments, assigned to 

 classes in surveying, is much too small and inconveniently situated with 

 reference to egress to the field. There is lacking a suitable room for 

 experimental work with instruments of precision, planimeters, panto- 

 graphs, integrators and the like. 



As a matter of historical record, it may be said that the quarters 

 now assigned to the department were not designed with reference to 

 its needs. The writer had no part in the planning, except to express 

 his opinion of the minimum space needed for a certain limited pur- 

 pose. Until the engineering building was completed he was informed 

 that there would be provided for the purposes of civil engineering, only 

 an hydraulic laboratory with its accessory tank room, a room provided 

 with booths for surveying instruments, one class room and an office 

 for the head of the department. This assignment was so manifestly 

 disy)roportionate to the work done in the department that on moving 

 into the new building the dean of engineering caused an apportion- 

 ment to the department in all seventeen rooms, namelv, those numbered, 

 3, 4, 5, 104, 105, 106, 107, 110, 111, 202, 203, 302, 304, 305, 300, 401 

 and 404. Not all of these have been occupied all of the year by classes, 

 but they have all been needed at times, and some have been almost un- 

 avoidably crowded at intervals. Any considerable accession to the at- 

 tendance in this department will call for undesirable limitations of 

 sections, if not makeshifts, in order to avoid overcrowding. 



I would call attention to the fact that student records at my office, 

 statistics, correspondence and the preparation of aids to class work 

 have increased the need of clerical assistance amazingly in the last two 

 years, while there has been no corresponding provision of the necessary 

 help. The result is deplorable, for our records are rapidly l)ecoming 

 less dependable. There is needed at least the services of a competent 

 stenographer and clerk for half time throughout the college year. In 

 my opinion, a more profitable arrangement would provide for the full 

 time of a clerk who should have some knowledge of civil engineering. 



To do full justice to the students who present themselves for instruc- 

 tion in civil engineering, it has become evident that there should be 



