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DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 127 



Reuben Tliorntou Taylor, Assistant I'rofessor of English (fall and 

 winter) . 



Louis B. Mayne, Instructor in English. 

 Willard H. Bonner, Instructor in English. 

 Lewis P. Waldo, Instructor in English. 

 J. Walker Milne, Instructor in Public Speaking. 



In addition to those named above I employed Mr. L\i Willson during 

 the winter and spring terms, paying him from department funds. In the 

 winter term the extra help was made necessary by an unfortunate un- 

 balancing of our public speaking schedule due to a change made two 

 years ago in the program of the Engineering Division. During the spring 

 tenu I retained Mr. Willson to fill the gap nuade in my staff by the 

 resignation of Assistant Professor Taylor. 



Two of my staff have resigned. Near the close of the winter term 

 ill health compelled Professor Taylor to entrust his classes to other 

 memhei-s of the department, and by the end of the term it had become 

 clear that he must abandon the teaching profession for at least a year. 

 Accordingly he submitted his resignation, which was accepted with 

 great regret. Mr. Taylor is a man of ability, of character and of vei^ at- 

 tractive personality. His loss will be keenly felt. 



In June, Mr. Bonner resigned in order to accept a position in the 

 College of Liberal Arts of the University of Buffalo. Mr. Bonner, though 

 young, impressed studentsi an<l all who knew him, as an extremely ef- 

 fective teacher. He combines a clear knowledge of his subject with 

 exceptional ability in the classroom. I am very sorry to give him up, but 

 he feels that in a college of liberal arts he will find au environment in 

 which he will grow more rapidly than here. 



I have also lost Mr. Waldo for at least a year. 



Mr. Waldo has been highly honored by being granted by the Republic 

 of France a scholarship which Avill provide for a year's study in French 

 universities. It is my hope that he may return to us at the expiration 

 of the leave of absence granted him by the Board of Agriculture. 



I also wish to mention here that Assistant Professor Paul E. Brees, not 

 listed above, resigned in August 1921, his resignation being made too late 

 to be recorded in my last annual report. Mr. Brees resigned in order 

 to accept a position in Kalamazoo College. Mr. J. W. Milne was secured 

 to take up the work which he laid doAvn. 



As you consider the division of subjects in the table given above and 

 as you scan the titles of the departmental staff, it will readily occur to 

 you that in my department you have under one administrative head at 

 least three departments, namely, a department of English, a department 

 of public speaking and a department of modern languages. This state- 

 ment is conservative, for in many institutions the subjects which we 

 group together in one department are divided among as many as five 

 departments, the three-part division being further broken up by the sepa- 

 ration of literature from composition and of romance languages from 

 other languages. Since we now haA'e in the department a distinct separa- 

 tion of courses and of teachers into three distinct groups I see no reason 

 why a division of my department into three departments should not be 

 made in the near future. 



The major extra-curriculum aetivities conducted by the department 



