66 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND MODERN 



LANGUAGE OF THE MICHIGAN AGRICULTURAL 



COLLEGE FOR THE YEAR 1903-1904. 



To the President: 



Sir — The arrangement of work in this department for the year 1903- 

 ]904 was identical with that of the previous year, and I refer you to 

 the report of that year for details. The teaching force remained the 

 same, and it gives me pleasure to testify to their continued efficiency 

 and devotion to the work. 



The enrollment for the year in the different subjects of the depart- 

 ment was as follows: 



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English Work. 

 Sub-Freshmen — 



English Grammar 231 



English Composition 230 



Voice Culture 181 



Rhetorical Praxis 121 



Rhetoric 57 



Oratory and Debate 67 



Logic and Argument 114 



English Literature 107 



Orations 72 



Total enrollment (English) 1,180 



Modet-n Language Work. 



German 138 



French 29 



Total enrollment (Modern Language) 167 



Grand total 1,347 



Names repeated 684 



Total number of persons registered in department 663 



1. Average number of recitation hours per week per student actu- 



ally enrolled (in English) 3.72 



2. Average number of recitation hours per week per student actu- 



ally enrolled (in German and French) 5.00 



3. Average number of recitation hours per week per student dur- 



ing his course (in English alone) : 



Highest possible 3 . 66 



Lowest possible 1 . 50 



4. Actual average number of recitation hours in English taken 



per student per week during his college course 2.70 



