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basketball team won a majority of its games; the tumbling team won the 

 state college championship, as did the indoor team; the track team was 

 unusually successful, winning all of its contests, of which those especially 

 worthy of mention were the victories from the University of Notre Dame 

 and Armour Institute of Chicago. The track team also won the state inter- 

 collegiate championship, scoring again, as last year, more points than the 

 five other state colleges combined. The relay team, not only won the state 

 inter-collegiate championship, but in the race for that honor broke the state 

 relay record which had stood for seventeen years. 



The athletic field has been materially improved during the year. The 

 entire field has been tile drained, the track resurfaced and a cement and 

 sand stone curb added, while the seating capacity of the field has been 

 largely increased by the addition of a new block of bleacher seats. The 

 most important work clone, however, in connection with the field has been 

 the making of a survey and plat so that all improvements made during 

 the year and outlined for the future will be permanent. 



On June 3d and 4th the Michigan State Inter-collegiate Field Meet was 

 held on the field, under the management of the department. It was un- 

 usually successful and proved an excellent thing for the college as it attracted 

 some three or four thousand visitors to the college grounds during the two 

 days. 



Respectfully submitted, 



C. L. BREWER, 

 Director of Athletics. 

 Agricultural College, Mich., June 30, 1095. 



REPORT OF THE DEAN OF SPECIAL COURSES. 



To the President: 



The numbers in attendance at the special courses given in the winter 



of 1904-5 were as follows: 



Creamery ^ 49 



Live stock 80 



Cheese 26 



Fruit 7 



Total 162 



The courses are all eight weeks long except the cheese course, which 

 followed the others and was but four weeks long. 



The work in the creamery course did not differ from that of the previous 

 year except that the attendance was restricted to men who had had a year's 

 experience in a creamery and, as a consequence, less emphasis was placed 

 upon the work in the practical butter room and more upon bacteriology 

 and kindred studies which supplemented or explained the methods used 

 in the butter room. The intelligence of the class was of a high order and 

 their energy and hunger for knowledge, exceedingly satisfactory. The 

 college has certainly done a great deal of good to the dairy interests of the 

 state by thus training a lot of intelligent and energetic men to manage 

 her factories. 



