122 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE 



L. C. Hughes, Assistant Professor. 



O. M. Lebe], Assistant Professor. 



A. H. Nelson, Assistant Professor. 



L. B. Mayne, Instructor. 



J. W. Milne, Instructor. 



G. W. Whiting, Instructor. 



Oscar Cargill, Instructor. 



C. F. Kuhn, Instructor. 



C. P. Hotson, Instructor. 



Of the above staff, Messrs. King and Milne taught public speaking, 

 Mr. Hughes French, Mr. Lebel Spanish, Mrs. Roseboom English and 

 Gennan. The remaining eight members of the department taught English 

 composition and literature. Mr. Weaver, however, gave but three hours 

 of teaching per week to the department, the rest of his time being taken 

 up by his duties as Director of Student Religious Activities, for the 

 People's Church. This leaves seven persons who gave full time to the 

 teaching of English, and during the winter and spring term Miss Myrtle 

 Maguire who was engaged for English in the Vocational Guidance School, 

 gave us a part of her time. Her doing so enabled me to arrange for 

 repeating, in the winter and the spring term, the freshman courses in 

 composition usually given in the fall and the winter term respectively, 

 thus making it jtossible for a student who had failed in the fall to repeat 

 the work in the winter and for one who had failed in the winter to repeat 

 the work in the spring. 



The number of students enrolled in the department for the year was 

 as follows : 



Summer term 1922 130 



Fall term 1022 839 



Winter term 1923 lOfil 



Spring term 1923 998 



Total 3031 



During the fall term the students whom we taught in our various 

 courses met in if) sections, in the winter term in 49 sections, and in the 

 spring term in 52 sections. The number of separate courses given by 

 the department was 51. It would be interesting and perhaps instructive 

 to compare the number of students, courses, sections, and instructors in 

 the department of English and Modern Languages with similar data' 

 from other departments. 



In addition to its teaching, the department carries on during the year 

 a number of collateral activities. There have been times when, on a 

 Friday or Saturday evening, as many as four or live members of the 

 staff have gone out to judge debates and other contests at various high 

 schools and colleges near to East Lansing. We believe that work of this 

 kind is a service which we owe to the College, and we know that it has 

 a tendency to bring to us men who later become debaters on our own 

 teams. We have also accepted during the year some invitations to 

 deliver addresses away from the College. 



Among the collateral activities carried on here at the College by the 



