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While the total number of students in college during the latter quarter is 

 smaller, the enrollment is larger, and the average attendance much larger. 

 The reduced average attendance during the first quarter of the year is 

 accounted for by the fact that much of the drill of the early spring is of 

 necessity in the drill hall, and all cannot drill at once with profit. The 

 absentees are not delinquent students, but students excused from the drill 

 od account of lack of room. 



The target practice for cadets has been delayed this year from lack of 

 ammunition. The change brought about by the resignation of President 

 Willits is the main cause of this lack. New requisitions for ordnance sup- 

 plies could not well be submitted until the ordnance at the college should 

 have been transferred to President Willits' successor, and this transfer 

 required action on the part of the State Board that involved some delay. 

 The department has the promise of two 3-inch field guns from the ordnance 

 department U. S. army, and with these, foot battery drill will be taught. 



Some additions have been made to the apparatus in the gymnasium dur- 

 ing the year, and more apparatus will yet be added before the new class 

 arrives in August. 



RECOMMEN DATIONS. 



It is much to be desired that all students required to drill should wear the 

 cadet uniform. If wearing the uniform were required, I think it would 

 prove no hardship to any student. Those students desiring time could be 

 allowed one term in which to provide the uniform. The cost of the suits 

 generally ordered ranges from $14 to $25, including the cap. This is a tailor- 

 made suit of good, durable, all-wool cloth, and proves to be an economical 

 dress. 



In recommendation further I will repeat from recommendations of last 

 year: 



I would recommend that discipline should be given a value in the stand- 

 ing, and a student should be required to be proficient in discipline in order 

 to graduate. All absences from required duties, unless the student be 

 excused by competent authority, would then be looked after by those having 

 charge of the discipline, and would count against the standing of the student. 



Students could be marked on the relative attentiveness to work, drill, and 

 college rules generally; and there would be some distinction in standing 

 between the student who is attentive, diligent and obedient in all depart- 

 ments of work and study, and the student who may have nearly merited 

 suspension or expulsion by neglecting drills and shirking work on the gar- 

 den or farm. 



A system could easily be inaugurated of sending in reports for delin- 

 quencies to the Commandant of Cadets, who could have them posted and 

 recorded. The students could be required to submit explanations to these 

 reports, and such explanations as should be deemed unsatisfactory could be 

 finally submitted to the President of the College. In his office could be 

 recorded all such delinquencies as were not satisfactorily explained, and the 

 number of demerits fixed for the delinquency entered. 



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