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the building sliould be put into the best possible repair, no matter 

 what the cost, for the sake of its associations. I suppose no student 

 has ever graduated from the institution who has not done work in 

 College Hall. Future records perhaps should be the same ; at least the 

 building should be preserved and should be devoted to some use which 

 will make every student a more or less frequent visitor to it. I believe 

 in progress; I believe in new and splendid buildings adequately equip- 

 ped; but with our broad acres of beautiful campus there can be found 

 for the new central building that is your plan a site that will be satis- 

 factory, even though it may not be so entirely fitting as would be the 

 site of College Hall. Let sentiment reign in this single case and let 

 the building be restored and jealously guarded as sacred because of its 

 unnumbered associations. Vocational education at this place may well 

 have its almost wholly materialistic tendencies modified and embellished 

 by this bit of color from a noble historical past. 



I write these last lines of my final report with an overwhelming ap- 

 preciation of the support this department has had from the faculty 

 during the years which I have been here. The work in English in a 

 technical institution is too often held in slight esteem by the faculty 

 at large. Here there has been a practically unanimous feeling of its 

 importance and of its real worth. When the college course of study 

 has been changed there has never been a serious attempt to cut doAvn 

 the amount of work in English. Requests that I have made concerning 

 the English work have almost invariably been granted without dis- 

 cussion. One thing has not yet been done, which I believe should be 

 done as an aid to my successor, namely, some kind of floating credits 

 should be devised which can be granted as elective credits to students 

 who represent the institution in intercollegiate contests. Athletes get 

 their drill credits for their work on the college field, A plan to excuse 

 from drill, debaters and others engaged in intercollegiate public speak- 

 ing contests, or to give them some definite credit for this work, with- 

 out requiring this department or the Department of History and Eco- 

 nomics to give credit for w^ork which has really never been .done should 

 be worked out. For all that has been done, however, and for the spirit 

 of helpfulness and enthusiastic support which has characterized my 

 colleagues, I am most grateful. 



The instructors in the department during the past year have been ex- 

 ceptionally faithful to their work. During some years I have felt as 

 though an occasional instructor was working for his monthly pay 

 rather than for the good of his classes. This year there has been present 

 in every instructor an enthusiasm and a devotion to his work which has 

 made this thought impossible. Their co-operation is a source of deep 

 satisfaction to me, and to feel that I shall not take up the work again 

 Avith them another ^ear, a source of real regret. 



To the State Board, and to you, Mr. President, I wish to express my 

 gTatitude and appreciation for your constant willingness to uphold 

 and better the work of the department. In equipment you have granted 

 whatever I have asked for during the six 3'ears that I have been here. 

 So, too, the loyalty of your support of the work in the department has 

 been unlimited. To decide to go elsewhere was not easy. I shall never 



