HOME AND EDUCATION
Hunt, Caroline L. & Follette, Belle Case La
HOME AND EDUCATION The home in the real seat of government, and the Wise Men of nil nations bring their gifts to the cradle. Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT Graduate...
...From that time on the two schools which are similar in purpose yet sufficiently different in the subjects which they present to offer an interesting interchange of attractions have met together...
...Over the good roads, including a mile of prize road, they went, past sweet-smelling and seemingly boundless fields, stopping occasionally to t :i k e a lesson in agriculture...
...Kenyon Butterfield of Roosevelt's Country Life Commission, many of the lectures on Dairying and those on Landscape Architecture, offered a common ground for students of the two schools...
...A special train brought eighty-three visitors from Ames—professors of agriculture, deans of agricultural colleges, experiment station workers, government experts, p ra cti cal fa rm -ers, and teachers of Home Economics...
...At this year's session, the courses offered by the School in Agriculture upon Rural Economics and Sociology, including the lectures by Dr...
...C. f. Langworthy of the Office of Experiment Stations...
...Miss Elizabeth Sprague of the University of Chicago reported her thorough and interesting work on the "Development of Flavor in Meat...
...There is a short story in the August Atlantic, called "i Sea Change," the product of a literary partnership between a man and his wife, which is delightfully refreshing in its frani recognition that human faults and frailties and even h':irr.| foibles and foolishnesses belong exclusively neither to men noi to women but are their common possession,—a fact which thosj who talk and write on marriage, and sex, and the woman quc| tion too often weary us by overlooking...
...Professsr Mortensen, for the sake of encouraging the making of ice cream at the creameries is working out formulae and also a system of nomenclature, so that products may be uniform in composition and may never, through being misnamed, come under the ban of the pure food laws...
...When the students in Agriculture wished, for relaxation's sake, to turn the direction of their thoughts a bit they could drop into a lecture on the chemistry of textiles, a subject which is interesting men at present as well as women, and which is certain to concern both of them even more vitally in the future than it does now...
...Hibbard of Iowa State College on "Cost of Living on the Farm," one by Dr...
...A E. Cook's 6,000-acre farm, they left their automobiles at noon to enjoy Mrs...
...Mathews of Michigan Agricultural College on "Intestinal Bacteriology," and two by Caroline L. Hunt of La follette's Weekly on "Progressive Legislation Affecting the Home...
...she also led a conference on "Exact Methods in Cooking...
...THE TOWN of Odebolt, Iowa, played hostess on July 16 when it invited the Graduate Schools of Agriculture and Home Economics to spend the day with it, giving them an automobile ride of thirty-eight miles to the great, rich farms by which it is surrounded and inviting them to lunch and to supper...
...The speakers were Dean Curtiss, who gave an address of welcome...
...President Waters, of the Kansas Agricultural College, and Mrs...
...His invention of ices made from sour milk has already been referred to on these pages...
...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT Graduate School in Home Economics FOLLOWING the conferences of the Institutional Management and Educational Sections of the American Home Economics Association, which brought together fifty experts at Lake Placid in June and three hundred teachers of Domestic Science at Boston during the early part of July, came a smaller but no less important meeting at Ames, Iowa, that of the Graduate School of Home Economics, which was in session from July 6 to July 20...
...AUNIQUE educational institution which is having a trial in Rome, Italy, is said to have triumphed over boys who play "hookey" from the ordinary schools...
...From the standpoint of "the next thing to be done," as well as because of their scientific interest, the lectures by Dr...
...Langworthy told of interesting experiments which were to be carried on in his laboratory in Washington for the purpose of determining the amount of energy expended in doing various household tasks...
...Cook's hospitality and to take a lesson in Home Economics as valuable as the lessons in farming they had received by the way...
...The first was on "The Literature on the Physiology and Chemistry of Fatigue," a subject of interest not only from the standpoint of women who work in factories, but also of these who do housework...
...With the schools of Home Economics introducing the study of textiles and developing new and sure tests for their purity, the chances are that American women will be able to fight adulterated textiles more effectively than they have fought adulterated food...
...His second lecture on "A Review of the Scientific Literature on Domestic Art," was peculiarly timely and important because of the fact that departments of Domestic Art are now being rapidly added to departments of Domestic Science in colleges...
...This school had its origin eight years ago when Professor Atwater of the Office of Experiment Stations opened his laboratories at Middletown, Connecticut, to teachers of Domestic Science, inviting them to study there four weeks and to get in touch with the investigations in nutrition which the government was making...
...ELLEN H. RICHARDS' Euthenics, or The Science oj Controllable Environment, has just been published by Whit comb and Barrows, Boston...
...And the fight must be made...
...Of great value to busy teachers and to those who have not the advantages of large libraries were two lectures given by Dr...
...By skillfully adapting the cafeteria plan of serving to the entertainment of guests at a private home, Mrs...
...A. C. True, Director of the Office of Experiment Stations at Washington, who is Dean ef the Graduate School of Agriculture and is always ready to extend his assistance to the workers in Home Economics...
...They met in 1908 at Cornell University and in 1910 at the Iowa State College of Agriculture...
...Fortunately for the Home Economics movement, the place selected for the next meeting of the School of Agriculture was the University of Illinois where Professor Bevier had already developed a strong course in Home Economics...
...If the pure food campaign has any lesson for the American people it is that the next time they start such a reform they must be better prepared...
...W. A. McKeever, Professor of Philosophy in the Kansas Agricultural College, on "Improving the Crop of Children" and "Eugenics...
...When their destination is reached the pupils set up their desks and school convenes.—The Chicago Daily News, * * * EUTHENICS MRS...
...Buchanan of the same college on "Bacteria in relation to Food Poisoning," one by Professor Eckles of the University of Missouri on "Recent Advances in Dairy Bacteriology," one by Dr...
...It chanced that in that same year a call was given for graduates in Agriculture to gather at Ohjo State University, to do advanced work and in these two meetings the Graduate Schools of Home Economics and Agriculture had their beginnings...
...Through her efforts and the generosity of the University a Graduate School in Home Economics was held in eonnection with the School of Agriculture...
...two by Dr...
...WHY NOT IN AMERICA...
...Cook serves hundreds of people as easily as most women serve half a dozen...
...The students of Home Economics could occasionally turn from the consideration of food and clothing and other special home problems to listen to the reports of researches in plant breeding or plant pathology...
...Each day the school is in session the youngsters and their teachers set off for some point of interest, a historic spot or monument...
...A. D. Feuling, Professor of Domestic Economy at the Iowa State college, who was in charge of local arrangements...
...Among the other lectures were two by Dr...
...Each pupil is equipped with a combined desk, seat, and satchel, the total weight ol which is ten pounds, as well as books, pencils, paper and luncheon...
...We have laboriously sewed up enough adulterated cloth into garments...
...Of special interest to women on farms were the lectures given by Professor Mortensen of Iowa State College upon Ice Creams, for they seemed to suggest a profitable business into which farmers' wives might enter...
...No further sessions of the schools were held until 1906, at which time the American Association of Agricultural Colleges and Experiment stations decided to assume control of the Graduate School of Agriculture and to make it a permanent but a movable institution which should hold biennial sessions in different colleges of the United States...
...H. T. Vulte of Columbia University on the Chemistry of Textiles may be called the feature of the school...
...Under the row of magnificent shade trees that borders Brookmont, Mr...
...The School of Home Economics had its forma] opening on the evening of July 7 in the auditorium of the magnificent new building which the students in Ames fondly call, "New Agric...
Vol. 2 • August 1910 • No. 32
