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transferred shortly before the close of the fall term. The work accom- 

 plished by Mr. Bobbins has been especially commendable and pains- 

 taking. 



Since the establishment of the course in Veterinaiy Medicine it has 

 been customary to give, once every two years to senior and junior classes 

 combined, a course in Veterinary Jurisprudence. We again were fortun- 

 ately able- to secure Judge Charles B. Collingwood for the past 

 year to deliver a series of lectures touching the more important phases 

 of law as it relates to business, to federal and state livestock sanitation 

 and concerning responsibilities of the veterinarian in his relation to the 

 client and community. 



Course of Instruction : The revised schedule of instruction sanctioned 

 by the faculty a year ago, which entirely eliminates elective courses and 

 more adequately correlates the work, was put into operation for fresh- 

 men during the past year with exceedingly gratifying results; indeed, 

 a large percentage of the first year students completed the work in a 

 most satisfactory manner. By vote of the faculty, authorizing a few 

 temporary changes in courses to aid adjustment, the entire new schedule 

 for all classes will be adopted beginning with the opening of the next 

 college year. 



The military exigency incident to the declaration of war with Germany 

 has created such an unprecedented demand for skilled veterinarians that 

 we have, with the approval of the State Board of Agriculture, arranged 

 to shorten the next fiscal year for our senior students by advancing the 

 date of graduation some two months; this plan will work out without 

 in the least curtailing the regTilarly scheduled work. 



It was our expressed hope in the annual report of one year ago 

 that before long arrangements might be completed making it possible 

 to offer attractive courses to the practitioners of Michigan. It is grati- 

 fying to announce that the division is now planning to offer its courses 

 to graduate veterinarians throughout the approaching college year and so 

 permit them to take advantage of recent information relating to the 

 ever increasing responsibilities obligatory upon trained veterinarians. 

 This we trust will be only a beginning which may promptly lead up to 

 an annual weekly conference or some other attractive method pennit- 

 ting Michigan veterinarians to pursue elective Work in surgery, parasitic 

 diseases and problems related to sanitation and animal disease. 



Two years ago graduate courses were authorized in Veterinary Anatomy 

 and Animal Pathology and I would repeat the suggestion made a year 

 ago — that it might serve to encourage recent graduates to undertake 

 such studies if one or more half or quarter time assistantships were 

 created; this would serve to develop help in teaching and relieve the 

 present corps of instructors. 



The class room work of the five instructors engaged in teaching en- 

 tirely within the division is, under the revised schedule, distributed as 

 follows : 



Fall week- Winter week- Spring week- 

 ly hours ly hours ly hours 



E. P. Lyman 13 18 9 



F. W. Chamberlain 33 > 22 25 



E. T. Hallman 14 48 5 



J. W. Benner 14 16 13 



J. P. Hutton 20 32 32 



