33-1 NATURE-STUDY REVIEW [11:7— Oct., 1915 



Management, 33; Cookery, 14; Practical Nursing, 20; General 

 Home Economics, 13; Home Economics for Rural Schools, 9 

 Collection of Home Economics, 4; Design and Practical Arts, 50 

 Organized Play and Recreation, 35; Plays and Pageantry, 20 

 Home and School Gardens, 13; Cooperation in Agriculture, 2 

 Economic Aspects of New England Agriculture, 5; Small Fruit 

 Growing, 25; The New Rural Church, 11; Rural Community 

 Planning, 14; Rural Organization, 13. 



It will be seen from this summary that the ten most popular 

 courses, as judged by registration, were, in order, Design and Prac- 

 tical Arts, Soil Fertility, Organized Play and Recreation, Foods 

 and Household Management, Fruit Growing, Poultry Husbandry, 

 Amateur Floriculture, Bird Life, Small Fruit Growing and Garden 

 Flowers. 



Readers of this article will doubtless be interested to learn what 

 type of persons registered in those courses most closely allied to 

 nature study. In the course on Bird Life, which was conducted by 

 C. J. Maynard, the well known ornithologist, of West Newton, 

 Mass., there were 16 teachers, two students, one artist, one secre- 

 tary and seven whose occupations are unknown. In the Home 

 and School Garden Course there were nine teachers, one home- 

 maker, one minister, one student and one unknown. In the 

 Forestry Course there were six teachers, one nursery inspector, one 

 student and two unknown. In the course dealing with Plant 

 Experiments and School Demonstrations Material, there were four 

 teachers, one student and five unknown. In the Botany Course 

 there were four teachers, two ministers, one secretary, one student, 

 and five unknown. 



(B) The Tuesday evenings during the school were devoted to a 

 general social good time including dancing; on Friday evenings 

 special events were schedules which included a "Peach Blossom 

 Party," an Indoor Track Meet at which many novel events were 

 scheduled, a Poverty Party and on the last evening which was a 

 reception to the faculty, a number of short one-act plays were 

 given. 



Much of the class work was conducted out-of-doors and the 

 accompanying illustration will give an idea of some of its phases. 



As a closing feature of the summer school, there is held each year 

 a four-day conference on Rural Organization. The plan of this 

 conference is to hold section meetings during the forenoon devoted 



