22 Report of the Director. 



There have been two innovations in the College in the past year : 

 a lecture course in home economics, and the projecting of a traveling 

 summer school. 



The lecture-course in home economics covered a period of ten 

 weeks. More than twenty women, expert in various subjects, gave 

 the lectures; about forty registered students completed the full 

 course, and many others attended as visitors. The purpose of the 

 course was to awaken an interest in education for wom.en along the 

 line of home-making, and to enable us to study the entire field and 

 to judge the questions involved. This survey has enabled us to 

 arrive at conclusions as to the scope and nature of courses in home 

 economics ; and it confirms us all in the feeling that such a course 

 should be a regular part of our work. 



The traveling summer school of agriculture (which, so far as I 

 know, is the first of its kind) is to consist of a body of students in 

 charge of Professor Hunt, the members of which are to study agri- 

 cultural practices that are not common to New York State. The 

 party expects to have its own train. It plans to leave Ithaca late 

 in June or early in July, extending the tour to Colorado, Texas, 

 Louisiana, Mississippi, and the Atlantic coast States. Special 

 attention will be given to ranching, stock-feeding, irrigation, rice, 

 sugar-cane, cotton and tobacco. The trip is planned to occupy 

 about eight weeks, and a credit of six hours may be given for the 

 course. 



The awakening interest in the College on the part of the people 

 of the State is shown in the offering of scholarships. There are 

 at present seven Grange scholarships, as explained in a later part 

 of this report; and Mr. Harrison L. Beatty, of Bainbridge, Che- 

 nango county, also offers a scholarship of $75.00 for the Winter- 

 course to a properly qualified student from the town of Bainbridge. 



I 

 REORGANIZATION OF THE COLLEGE. 



The action of the Legislature in passing an act providing for the 

 administration of the College of Agriculture and in making an ap- 

 propriation for maintenance, raises the question of the proper organi- 

 zation of the College. At present the College is essentially unor- 

 ganized, there being no well-marked subdivision of its varied and 

 complex activities among its various officers. 



It is first necessary to determine what the functions of a modern 

 agricultural college are conceived to be. At first these institutions 

 stood chiefly for education in the technical or occupational agricul- 



