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the summer-school work should 1)C graded as it now is in regular courses. 

 The following number of students registered: 



Course A 38 



Course B 25 



Course C 30 



Course D 15 



Course E 7 



Total 115 



One new course, The Field of Home Economics, was added to the 

 department curriculum in response to the need of keeping freshmen in 

 closer touch with the Department. 



A very close, although not avowedly official, affiliation was made with 

 the Department of Domestic Science of the public schools of Ithaca, 

 through Miss Snook, the teacher of domestic science in those schools. 

 The students in the Department of Home Economics were thereby enabled 

 to have practical experience in teaching, each senior student having charge 

 of a class for one period each week during the school year. It is hoped 

 that tiie connection with the public school may soon become an established 

 and officially recognized one. We feel that we owe a debt of gratitude for 

 the time and interest which Miss Snook has given to the Department. 



The Department showed its growth over the previous year very 

 markedly, both in the crowding of classrooms and laboratories and in the 

 extra strain of work needed for the arrangement of schedules and super- 

 vision of work done. The teaching force of the Department was entirely 

 inadequate for the amount of work to be done. 



INVESTIGATION 



Work of an investigative nature has been impossible to any extent, as 

 will be seen by a study of the first page of the report of this Department. 

 The small teaching force and the limited number of workers were all 

 needed to concentrate on the problems of teaching and executive work. 

 Investigations concerning work in other States, opportunities for trained 

 women, principles in canning and preserving fruits and vegetables, have 

 been promoted to some extent. No important investigation is possible in 

 this Department under present limiting conditions. 



EXTENSION 



Extension in home economics has been promoted by means of (a) 

 Reading-Course lessons, one each month ; (b) lectures before granges, 



