6S STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



The above table is to some extent incomplete and misleading. It does 

 not give all instrnetors proper credit for work done, sometimes even 

 directly in connection with the class work. For instance, during the 

 fall term Mr. C. D. Curtiss was assigned to 16 hours per week of regu- 

 lar attendance in one of our laboratories where he prepared equipment 

 and checked it out to students. Similar assignments were shared by 

 Mr. Ockerblad and Mr. Powell in the spring term. Every teacher in 

 the department has been held throughout the year for duties which do 

 not show on the record of class work. A memorandum of every such 

 assignment is carefully filed in the dej^vartment. 



The following text-books have been used in our classes during the 

 year: Merriman and Jacoby's Roofs and Bridges. Vols. I. II, III; 

 Hodgman's Land Surveying and Tedders Xotes on Surveying-; Merri- 

 man's Treatise on Hydraulics: Johnson-Smith's Suneying; Church's 

 Mechanics; Baker's Masonry Construction: Baker's Roads and Pave- 

 ments: Turneaure & Russell's Public Water Supplies; Folwell's Sewer- 

 age; Hosmer's Astronomy: Tucker's Contracts in Engineering; Wil- 

 son's Topographic Surveying; Merriman's Mechanics of Materials; Al- 

 len's Railroad Curves and Earthwork. 



The total expenditure by the department during the year for all pur- 

 poses has been §1.683.08 of which ^85.00 was turned in for special ex- 

 aminations, and f598.50 for laboratory fees and other departmental re- 

 ceipts. 



Our inventory for 1912 shows the total value of e<^uipment to be 

 8-2l.615.o0 as against 810.030.21 in 1010. 



Respectfullv submitted. 



H. K. VEDDER. 



East Lansinsi. June 30. 1912. 



Professor of Civil Engineering. 



REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AXD ELECTRI- 

 CAL EyGINEERIXG. 



President J. L. Snyder: 



Dear Sir — It is well perhaps to call attention occasionally to the fact 

 that every student who spends two years at the college is required to 

 take from trvo to three terms of physics and those who enter as sub- 

 freshmen take two or three terms of preparatory physics in addition, 

 and. since physic-s is given in the freshmen and sophomore years after 

 which time the classes diminish due to the dropping out of those who 

 are unable to carry the course, we handle a great many students. 



I have felt that some of the heads of the departments have not been 

 entirely in sympathy with our methods of teaching physics, in that we 

 are thought to spend too much time on principles and formulae and not 

 enough time with laboratory practice of an elementary nature. During 

 this past year four new men have been doing advanced work more par- 

 ticularly for the Experiment Station which necessitates a very complete 

 knowledge of physics. These men have consulted freely with Prof. 



