Excerpt from The M. A. C. Bulletin, Amherst, Mass., For January, 1915, Vol. 7: Catalogue of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1914-1915; Fifty-Second Annual Report, Part II I herewith submit my annual report as president of the Massachusetts Agricultural College. First of all, I wish to convey my hearty personal thanks to you as trustees for your generous action in allowing me a year's leave of absence which ended last May. For considerably over one-half of the period my services were given to the United States and American Commissions on Agricultural Credits, traveling with the commissions in Europe and assisting in the preparation of reports. The entire year Was a fruitful one in the widening of observation, the enlarging of acquaint ance, and the opportunity for study in fields fundamental to the development of large rural policies. During my absence Prof. Edward M. Lewis served as acting president, not only. With energy and efficiency, but with great acceptability to students, faculty and, I am quite sure, to your Board of Trustees. The position of acting president is never a sinecure, but Dean Lewis met every requirement with sympathy, Skill, and thoroughgoing loyalty to the policies of the institution. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.