DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 



85 



the actual number of classes taught is 



thau 



in excess of 

 one division of 



twent3-five, but 



this since frequently a subject is given to more 



students. 



The size of the recitation division has ranged uniformly large, since 

 an inspection of the class rolls of the thirty-three recitation classes 

 conducted by members of the department during the year shows that 

 in nineteen there were more than thirty students while in only seven 

 rolls were there less than twenty -five students. The average number 

 in attendance at classes was thirty-three students per class. 



As is well known, the apportionment of students to recitation classes 

 in the different collegiate courses contemplates a much smaller number 

 than the average just shown. It is possibly due to the fact that special 

 students are so easily classified into subjects like history and economics 

 that the class enrollments in these studies are abnormally large. 



The momentous alterations which the curriculum of each of the col- 

 lege "courses"' has sustained during the past year suggests the expedi- 

 ency of showing here, the participation, under the new arrangement, 

 of this departnrent in the work of the college. The representation is 

 tabulated as follows: 



Name of Number of 

 Course. Subjects 

 offered. 



Economics. 



.Agricultural 



Engineering. 



■Women's. 



Forestry. 



10 Commercial 



Geography. 

 Industrial 



History. 

 Economic 



Principles. 

 Economic 



Problems. 

 Finance. 

 Sociologj'. 



5 Economic 



Principles. 

 Economic 

 Problems. 



12 Commercial 

 Geography. 



Economic 

 Principles. 



Economic 

 Problems. 



Finance. 



Sociology. 



9 Same as 



Agriculturals. 



Historv. 



English, 

 European, 

 United States 

 Constitutional. 



English. 

 European. 



English, 

 Early 



European. 

 Later 



European. 

 Constitution 

 of 



United States. 



English. 

 European. 



Political Science. Education. 



CivU 



Government of 

 United States. 



Ci^-a 



Government 

 of 

 United States. 



Psycholog>\ 

 Principles 



of 

 Pedagog}'. 



Histon,- of 

 Education. 



Required. Elective. 

 Three Six 



Same as 



Agriculturals. 



Four. 



Eight 



Three. 



Five. 



The great excess of "electives'' over required subjects which this 

 tabulation shows is a situation which has been consistently character- 

 istic of this department. It is a condition which has proven no draw- 

 back to the department, and indeed may be regarded as a positive bene- 

 fit since the customary stimulus toward improvement which is given by 

 rivalry among comixHitors is not without application to teachers. 



It is scarcely necessary to say that demands upon a de])artment which 

 has become so largely increased — amounting to a doubling of the en- 

 rollments over any i)revious year and to an enlargement by a half of 

 the number of hours taught — could not be met without addition to the 

 teaching force. Fortunately the services of Mrs. ^Minnie Hendrick were 

 again available, and she assumed the position of instructor in history 

 at the beginning of the vear. At the commencement of the winter 



