nt of Professor Herbert R. Cross, Brown, '00, in 1911. The work
in elocution and oratory was definitely established with the appointment
in 1889 of Thomas C. Trueblood, M.A., Earlham, '85, who had for some
years held a lectureship in the University, as Assistant Professor of
Elocution and in 1892 as full Professor of Oratory.

The chair of Semitics and Oriental Languages, held since 1914 by Leroy
Waterman, Hillsdale, '98, was first established in 1893 when James A.
Craig, McGill, '80, came as Professor of Oriental Languages, a title
which was changed to Semitic Languages and Literatures and Hellenistic
Greek the following year.

Following the example of Yale and Cornell, Michigan established a
Department of Forestry in 1903, and called Filibert Roth, '90, to fill
the chair thus created. For some time courses in forestry had been given
in connection with the work in botany, but the growing interest in the
preservation and conservation of America's timber resources made more
intensive and systematic training seem desirable. A few years later, in
1909, a course in landscape design was established, which shortly became
a department under the charge of Professor Aubrey Tealdi, a graduate of
the Royal Technical Institute of Livorno, Italy.

The history of the development of special courses and degrees in the
University, though interesting and suggestive, can only be given here in
a brief outline. As Dr. Angell remarked in one of his reports, the
governing board has been distinguished for the boldness and originality
of its policy, making frequent changes in traditional college usages,
some of which were freely criticized at the time by those who afterwards
approved and even adopted them. We have seen how the University departed
from the dead level of contemporary college practice in establishing
Scientific Courses, and the admitting of those who were not seeking a
degree as special students. A few years later, in 1855, came the first
indication of one of the principal differences between the old
University and that of the present time--the system of elective studies.
The concession was a very small one, it must be acknowledged, one-third
of the work in the senior year; but it was a break in the dike. This was
all that was allowed for fifteen years, or until 1871, when all the
studies of the senior year except philosophy became elective.

The establishment of an English course in 1877-78, leading to the degree
of Bachelor o