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An enjoyable feature of the school garden meetings was a luncheon 

 served in Hearst Hall to about 200 guests by the California Junior 

 Gardeners. 



Meetings of the education section of the American Home Eco- 

 nomics Association were held on Tuesday to listen to a paper on the 

 "Home economics movement," by Miss Isabel Bevier, of Illinois, and 

 several addresses in memory of Mrs. Ellen H, Richards; on Wednesday 

 to hear a paper on the "College curriculum in home economics," by 

 Dr. A. C. True, a paper on "A 4-inch lesson in health and economy," 

 by Miss S. Maria Elliott, of Simmons College, Boston, and a round 

 table discussion of the "Teaching of home economics"; and on 

 Thursday to hear papers on "Nuts and fruits as food," by Prof. 

 M. E. Jaffa, and on the "Application of science to the housekeeper's 

 daily problems," by Miss Ellen A. Huntington, of the Utah Agri- 

 cultural College. 



Dr. True called attention to the fact that college courses for women 

 have followed too closely the lines laid down in those for men and do 

 not give sufficient consideration to ' ' The role of woman in the home 

 and society, or as a dispenser of hospitality and a leader in the refined 

 pleasures of life." It was his opinion that "college courses in home 

 economics should be planned with reference to the conditions prevail- 

 ing in the preparatory schools, " so that where the preparatory schools 

 do not teach home economics the students may begin this subject in 

 the college. Continuing, he said: 



Courses in home economics should be offered for college women who desire to pursue 

 them as a part of a course of general education and to fit themselves to manage homes 

 and meet the general requirements of social life. These courses should be planned 

 with reference to the actual conditions of home and social life and include both prac- 

 tice and theory. Such courses should be allowed to form a part of a general bachelor- 

 degree course — that is, without requiring the student to graduate in home economics. 



Besides these more elementary and general courses of home economics, the colleges 

 should offer special coiu"ses suited to the needs of those students whose major interest 

 is in home economics and who are looking forward to professional careers in this line, 

 as teachers, experts, nurses, dietitians in sanatoriums or jiublic institutions, managers 

 of hotels or of boarding departments of schools, public institutions, etc. The number 

 and variety of such com-ses will depend on the funds at the disposal of the college for 

 the home economics department, the number of instructors, and the consequent 

 specialization of their work. Those courses should be first established for which there 

 is the greatest demand, and the institution with limited funds should seek to give the 

 strongest courses it can in one or two lines rather than to spread weakly out over a 

 large field. 



To indicate how home economics may be introduced mto a college 

 course on the group plan. Dr. True outlined three courses, one layuig 

 emphasis on languages, another on sciences, and the third on home 

 economics.^ 



1 Jour. Home Econ., 3 (IQU), No. 5, pp. 421-428. 



