DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 65 



H. K. Yedder, C. E., Professor of Civil Engineering; 



W. B. Wendt, B. C. E., Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering; 



H. E. Marsh, B. S., Instructor in Civil Engineering; 



A. M. Ockerblad, B. S. in C. E., Instructor in Civil Engineering; 



R. W. Powell, B. S., Instructor in Civil Engineering; 



C. A. Melick, D. C. E., Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering; 



E. D. Kingman, Ph. B., Instructor in Civil Engineering; 



C. D. Curtiss, B. S., Instructor in Civil Engineering. 



Two of those named above have resigned and will leave us with the 

 close of this school year. Mr. H. E. Marsh will take up practical work 

 in structural engineering and Mr, R. W. Powell has accepted an in- 

 structorship at Cornell Universit3^ 



I wish to repeat my recommendation of last year that there be ap- 

 pointed an assistant whose chief duty shall be the care and inspection 

 of our surveying instruments, field tools and laboratory equipment. . I 

 also recommend that the department be given the full time services of 

 a stenographer to care for the constantly increasing work which falls 

 to our share. I also suggest the rehabilitation of our astronomical 

 observatory. This building contains a good telescope equatorially 

 mounted and is supposed to furnish protection for this instrument. 

 Some years ago vandals forced the door of the observatory and left 

 open the sky shutter. This happened in the winter months and the 

 elements injured the contents of the building almost to the point of de- 

 struction. Any plan that is adopted for putting our observatory again 

 into commission must include the clearing away of a group of evergreens 

 which have grown up about the building until tirey seriously interfere 

 with telescopic observation. 



As for many years past, I present herewith a tabulation showing 

 the work of teaching carried out by this department during the year; 

 it will answer questions of assignments, enrollment, class rooms occu- 

 pied, size of sections and the like. 



