52 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND CIVIL 



ENGINEERING. 



To the President: 



Sir — The year just past is entitled to record as one of fairly satisfactory 

 results and marked by an efficiency out of proportion to our provisions 

 for the work. This means that although the arrangement of class-rooms 

 has not been improved since my last annual report, and although a number 

 of other recommendations have not yet been acted upon, there is no dis- 

 tinct item of failure to be directly traced to what we lack in facilities. Har- 

 mony in the department, good fortune in securing teachers who are able 

 to interpret and carry on their work as demanded by our courses, and an 

 exceptionally industrious spirit of endeavor among the members of our 

 classes, have all conspired favorabl}'. 



The above should not be taken as in any sense lessening our needs. The 

 recommendations of my last annual report might be more strongly urged 

 in this one, and a re-reading of that report is respectfulh^ suggested. 



At the beginning of the college j^ear the staff of teachers in the depart- 

 ment included the following: Assistant Professor W. Babcock and In- 

 structors R. Hopkins, G. W. Hartwell, A. E. Jones, C. Gundersen, F. E. 

 Mills, and G. G. Sweet. On November 15, Mr. Sweet resigned, and Mr. 

 A. R. Alger was appointed instructor in his stead. After this date the 

 personnel of the department remained without change to the end of the 

 year. Without exception, these men have labored faithfully for the wel- 

 fare of the department, and are entitled to all the credit which attaches 

 to efficient well-directed teaching. Instructor R. Hopkins has resigned to 

 engage in similar work at Cornell. Instructor Hartwell has received a 

 scholarship at Columbia Univei^ity, and will spend next year in study 

 at that institution. 



As usual, a table has been prepared in which is shown the class work 

 of the department, the assignments of instructors, and other information 

 which might be called in question. An examination of the table and a 

 comparison with similar ones for earlier years will show that we have dealt 

 with a larger number of students than ever before, that we have met a 

 larger number of sections in every term, but that the average number in 

 a section has been smaller. 



