92 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTLTRE. 



KEPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND MODERN 



LANGUAGES. 



President Jonathan L, Snyder: 



Dear Sir— I liave the honor to submit for your consideration and 

 that of the Board of Agriculture tlie following brief report on tlie work 

 of the Deyjartnient of English and Modern Languages for the year ending 

 June 30, 1913 : 



The Enrollment. — The student enrollmenls in the department this 

 year numbered 2718, an average of 906 per term, distributed as follows: 



English. German. French. Total. 



Fall 733 73 71 877 



Winter 835 63 57 955 



Spring 777 62 47 886 



Total for year 2345 198 175 2718 



The Teaching Force. — The teaching force of the department consisted 

 of 12, classified as follows: 



B}' rank : 1 professor, 1 assistant professor, 10 instructors. 



By sex: 9 men, 3 women. 



By length of service at M. A. C : 4 not previously employed, 8 previ- 

 ously employed. 



The Work. — Outside of administrative work and manj' miscellaneous 

 duties difficult to classify or explain, the labors of the membei's of the 

 department were chiefly of the following six kinds: 



First: Instructing in class the average of 906 students per term 



listed above. 

 Second : Preparing new material for class work and adapting exist- 

 ing material to the peculiar needs of students of this in- 

 stitution. (Existing text books contain matter only fairly 

 well adapted for use wilh engineering students, and there 

 is no text book in existence adapted to the composition 

 Avork of agricultural students.) 

 Third : R^^ading and critically correcting many thousand themes 



written by students. 

 Fourth: Holding several hundreds of individual conferences with 

 students concerning their themes and their work in public 

 speaking, the purpose being to give the special advice, help, 

 encouragement or reproof needed by individual students. 

 Fifth : Directing and training debating teams, contestants for oratori- 

 cal honors, students taking part in plays, etc. 

 Sixth: Preparing committee work for, and taking part in, depart 

 mental meetings. (The main purpose of these meetings is ex- 

 plained below.) 



The Course of Study. — It gives me much pleasure to say that the 

 year's experience has convinced me that on the whole the course of 



