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STATE BOARD OF AGRI CULTURE. 



DEPARTMENT OF ENOLISH AND MODERN LANGUAGES. 



President David Friday, 



Michigan Agricultural College, 

 Dear President Friday: 



• I submit for your consideration the following report on the work of 

 the Department of English and Modern Languages for the year ending 

 June 30, 1922. 



The table below gives the number of student enrollments in the depart- 

 ment for the year. In previous reports I have ditferentiated between mod- 

 ern languages and English but liave not ditferentiated between i^ublic 

 .s.peaking and the courses in literature and composition. This year, for 

 greater clearness, I list the public speaking sej>arately. 



The number of enrollments for the year exceeds the number for last 

 year by 1033, a.n increaise of more than 30 per cent. We lack but three of 

 having as many enrollments in literature and composition as we had 

 last year in literature, composition and public speaking, and at the same 

 time we have in public speaking a registration of 610. Our increase in 

 French is 128, and in Spanish 268. We have handled this large increase 

 in English, public speaking, Spanish and French with the same number 

 of teachers a,s last, year, and have in addition given daily instruction 

 throughout the year to one class in German, a subject not given last 

 year. I believe that we liave given instruction to many more students 

 than were handled by any other department; we have also maintained 

 several extra-curriculum activities, such as intercollegiate debates, literary 

 contests and our dramatic representations. 



The teaching staff for the year was as follow^s : 



W. W. Johnston, Professor of English and Modern Languages. 



Egbert S. King, Associate Professor of Public Speaking. 



Ray B. Weaver, Assistant Professor of P^nglish. 



Norma G. Roseboom, Assistant Professor of English. 



Leo C. Hughes, Assistant Professor of French. 



Omer L. Lebel, Assistant Professor of French. 



Albert H. Nelson, Assistant Professor of English. 



