158 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE 



In its financial standing the department has prospered during the past 

 year in spite of a reduction in Income from the college. For the year 

 1921-22 your board appropriated for this department a total of |24,400 

 of which 13,200 was for general expenses and the balance for salaries. 

 In addition to this amount the department had for its use about ^1,400 

 in fees from the gymnasium lockers. The following year, 1922-23, the 

 appropriation was reduced to |22,000, |2,000 of which was for general 

 expenses and the locker fees were turned into the general college fund, 

 and at the beginning of that year there was a deficit in loans and un- 

 paid bills of 112,047 on the books of the department. A closely applied 

 policy of economy makes it possible to report the department books 

 now carrying but |3,400 in loans and about |1,000 in unpaid bills, a net 

 gain of about |7,600 over the previous year. 



On the salary roll of the department in 1922-23 there were seven 

 men on full-time contracts, one on part time, three women on full-time 

 and a clerk, an aggregate roll of |29,2S0. On the list for 1923-24 ther«3 

 will be five men on full-time contracts, one on part-time, two women 

 on full-time and one clerk at a total of |26,680, including |500 to R. 

 H. Eauch which should have been paid last year, and $1,200 to A. M. 

 Barron in settlement on his contract. This shows a net reduction in 

 salaries for next year of $4,800. 



Included in the expenses of the department for the past year is 

 $1,738.77 used in direct advertising for the college. The interscholastic 

 basketball and track tournaments of the past year brought about 1,000 

 high school students to the college. These gatherings give the institu- 

 tion an unparalleled opportunity to impress upon the vistors the de- 

 sirability of attending M. A. C. and many will enroll this fall as a 

 result. 



In installing the course in physical education which your board has 

 approved as a regular part of the curriculum, the board hopes that the 

 college will be better equipped to serve its purpose as an educational 

 institution by preparing men and women for positions as instmctors of 

 physical training in the schools of the state. 



The department of physical education is going into the new year 

 with a smaller appropriation from the college, a reduced, but what is 

 designed to be, a more eflicient staif, a. smaller indebtedness than the 

 previous year and the best equipment M. A. C. has ever had. This 

 board is putting forth its best efforts to insure for M. A. C. the prestige 

 on the athletic field to which her standing in the collegiate world en- 

 titles her. It is building firmly so that the victories of her teams will 

 be the result of irreproachable tactics and that the department of 

 physical education may exist for the benefit of the entire student body 

 as well as for the comparative few who make up the different squads. 



Detailed financial statements for that part of the college year previous 

 to the time this board took office and for the five months ensuing are 

 attached. 



RALPH C. HUSTON, 



Chairman. 



ROBERT J. McCarthy, 



Secretary. 



