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of live horses for soundness, and the points which should be rejected as unsound 

 pointed out, and the general contour of the animal discussed. In future, the 

 external form of the horse will receive a much greater amount of consider- 

 ation. Owing to the limited amount of time allowed for this subject, it was 

 not considered advisable to take up the anatomy of the domestic animals, but 

 as it has been determined to extend the course of instruction to the whole col- 

 legiate year, this important branch of the science will receive due attention. 

 In addition to the duties of the class-room, I was required to attend and pre- 

 scribe for the sick animals upon the farm, the cases brought under my notice 

 being some of influenza, others of sore throat, and a few cases of lameness, 

 fyhich yielded satisfactorily to treatment. 



E. A. A. GRANGE, 



Veterinary Surgeon. 



KEPORT OF THE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND 



LITERATURE. 



To the President : 



I respectfully submit the following brief report of my work for the year 

 1882-3. The appointment of a librarian relieves me of all duties but class 

 room work, and the Wednesday afternoon and winter institute lectures. An 

 account of my work may be given, therefore, in few words. 



During the autumn term, 1882, 1 took the freshmen, numbering forty-three, 

 and reciting in two divisions, over D. J. Hill's Elements of Ehetoric and Com- 

 position. The work embraced all the elementary processes of writing, from 

 the choice of subject, to the criticism of the completed production. As a part 

 of the class work, each student presented three compositions, — a description, a 

 narrative, and a letter, — bringing at different times for approval, suggestion, 

 and criticism, the subject, the outline, and finally the completed piece, which 

 was read and criticised in presence of the class. All manuscripts were care- 

 fully corrected, and reason for correction explained or noted. The class 

 met in the chapel every Saturday morning, for declamation, each student 

 declaiming three times during the terra. Short exercises were given the 

 •class in concert for drill in vocal culture, expression, position, and gesture. 



During the spring term, 1883, I gave instruction to twenty-nine juniors in 

 advance rhetoric, using A. S. Hill's Principles of Rhetoric as a text-book. 

 The rudiments of style were rapidly reviewed, and the subjects of narration, 

 description, conviction, and persuasion thoroughly discussed. Each student, 

 presehted, in presence of the class, three exercises, applying the rules for 

 descriptive, narrative, and argumentative composition, subjects and outlines 

 being presented for approval and criticism, before the exercises were prepared, 

 and the manuscript being passed in for criticism and correction subsequently. 

 I had also this term, a division of twenty-six sophomores in higher English, 

 Swinton's Forty Masterpieces of English Literature was used as a text-book. 

 Class-room drill consisted, as heretofore, in cultivating a proper expression 

 when reading aloud ; mastery of the thought of the selection, considering, 

 first general meaning, then details, pecularities of style, allusions, and special 

 merits and defects. Familiar lectures were given on the authors read ; and 

 critical essays, embodying the result of study, were prepared by the class. 



