DEPARTMENT REPORTS 51 



DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND HISTORY. 



To the President: 



It gives me pleasure to transmit to you the following report of work 

 done in the department under my charge for the year ending June 16^ 

 1899 : 



Owing to certain alterations in the course of study for the College, the 

 Agricultural and Women students in the Sophomore and Junior classes, 

 numbering 115, received instruction in English history during the 

 Autumn term. This number was divided into four sections and met with 

 me five times per week. 



During the Winter term a class of fifteen Seniors elected political 

 economy and met for recitation five times per week. Gide's and Walker's 

 works in Economics were the texts used. During the same term a class 

 of twenty Juniors met four times per week for the study of civics, using 

 Fiske's Civil Government and Hoffman's Sphere of the State as text- 

 books. 



The changes in the course, noticed before, were responsible for a large 

 increase in the work of this department during the Spring term. An 

 assistant, Mrs. E. A. Blunt, was furnished me and the work divided. 

 Mrs. Blunt met three divisions of Freshmen each day in English history, 

 while a class of Seniors in United States history, a class of Women Sopho- 

 mores in general history and a class of Freshmen in English history re- 

 cited to me. I wish in this place to express the desire that a better divis- 

 ion may be made, if possible, of courses in this department, so that the 

 work of the Spring term and that of the Fall term may not be so illy pro- 

 portioned. 



Respectfully submitted, 



WILBUR O. HEDRICK. 

 Assistant Professor of History and Political Economy. 

 Agricultural College, Mich., 

 June 30, 1S99. 



