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man who does not enjoy active exercise will not elect it. This can be 

 remedied only by making some sort of physical training compulsory 

 for a certain portion of the course, a remedy which is hardly practic- 

 able, however, while the department is obliged to take the time left 

 by the military department, and while there is no hour set aside on the 

 schedule for the work. There was also offered, three times a week, for 

 six weeks, a course for students in the short courses and about seventy- 

 five enrolled for the work and seemed to get much benefit and pleasure 

 from it. 



A considerable amount of money and attention has been expended 

 on the athletic field during the year; the improvement on the track 

 and the grading and seeding has continued, a foot bridge across the 

 Bed Cedar river was put in at the north end ; while a cement culvert has 

 been put in at the approach to the main bridge and the entire approach 

 is being raised to the level of the bridge. 



The athletic equipment was added to quite materially by the addi- 

 tion of new baseball and track suits throughout, an entire new set of 

 regulation hurdles and many other smaller items. In all about five hun- 

 dred dollars has been expended during the year from the funds of the 

 student's athletic association in permanent improvements on the field and 

 in- permanent equipment. The department funds, which come entirely 

 from the receipts of the bath house, have been used in keeping up the bath 

 house and armory and in the general keeping up of the athletic field. 



The bath house has been used very extensively during the year, about 

 three-fourths of the young men electing to pay the fee for its use while 

 every locker in the building, two hundred and seventy-five in number, 

 has been in use throughout the year. As I mentioned in my last report 

 however, I think the fee for the use of the bath house should be collected 

 of all the young men. It is not large enough to work any hardship and 

 under the present plan the poorer boys, who need the privilege and 

 would get the most benefit from it, do not elect to pay the fee. 



All of which is respectfullv submitted, 



C. L. BREWER. 

 Agricultural College, Mich., June 30, 1907. 



