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H. E. Stockbridge, Ph. D., Professor of Chemistry 

 and Geology, expiring in the spring of this year, it 

 was renewed for another fifteen months. 



The changes in the Faculty were not the only fea- 

 tures of this period. Material acquisitions of no 

 mean proportion were made to the College. A re- 

 spectable lot of two hundred and twenty-five acres, 

 including an unusually picturesque pasture land, 

 had formerly been a Government Seed Farm. It 

 was now appropriated to College use. 



But by far the most important, indeed the epoch- 

 making event of the collegiate decennium (1887-88) 

 was the commencement of the Engineering Depart- 

 ment. It was inaugurated with no more than five 

 applicants, and instructors temporarily appointed. 

 At this crisis there was a dearth of properly qualified 

 Professors in this Department ; for the College had 

 just lost in the resignation of Kano Tachibana, B.A., 

 for over five years in charge of Mathematics, an 

 efficient teacher and engineer. A foreign professor 

 was, however, soon engaged to take charge of 

 Mathematics and Physics/ Milton Haight, B.A., 

 was a graduate of the Toronto University, and had 

 afterward pursued his mathematical studies in the 

 Johns Hopkins under Rowland and Newcomb. He 

 arrived in Japan in 1888, and continued at his post 

 as late as 1892, when he left for Canada. The same 

 year that Haight arrived saw Brooks leave for his 

 alma mater, where he was appointed Professor of 

 Agriculture. Professor Brooks stayed altogether 

 more than ten years in Sapporo. It was with re- 

 luctance on the part of College authorities, that his 

 connection with the town, with the growth of which 



