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cooperation and through the conscientious service of the members of the Home 

 Economics faculty, and through the general spirit of helpfulness and interest 

 manifested by other divisions and by all the departments of the College, and 

 for which I wish to make grateful acknowledgment. 



Respectfully submitted, 



MARY E. SWEENEY, 



Dean of Home Economics. 

 East Lansing, Michigan, June 30, 1921. 



REPORT OF THE DEAN OF WOMEN. 



President Frank S. Kedzie, 

 East Lansing, Michigan. 



My dear President Kedzie : 



Permit me to present the following report of the Department of the Dean 

 of Women. 



Fifty-eight freshmen have been domiciled in Abbot Hall under the super- 

 vision of Mrs. Caroline Lewerenz; sixty freshmen, in Howard Terrace under 

 the supervision of Miss Emily Jones. Waterbury House, College Cottage, 

 and College Residence have housed respectively twenty-six, eighteen and 

 fourteen young women sophomores. Mrs. Sallie Katz, Mrs. Herbert Mur- 

 dock and Mrs. N. L. Eastman have been in charge of these dormitories. 

 The policies which have proved satisfactory in these five dormitories will be 

 continued the coming year. Mrs. May Stoner Clay, who has been absent 

 for a year, will return to us in September as house mother at Howard Ter- 

 race. 



Senior House, which has been used as a practice house for eighteen senior 

 girls under the supervision of Mrs. Mildred Osband, will become a dormitory 

 for sophomore girls; the senior girls will have a smaller house upon the campus. 

 In the Womans Building, eighty-five girls have had rooms. 



The health of the young women of the College has been noticeably good 

 during the past year, there having been but a very few isolated cases of 

 illness. 



The matter to which I wish particularly to call your attention is the pro- 

 gress made by the students in self-government during the past two years. 

 All women students are members of the Womans Self-Governing Association. 

 They elect their own officers and administer the government through a 

 council in each of the dormitories. While self-government, as at present 

 administered, has some weaknesses, it is the most effective means of training 

 our young women for future usefulness, as well as the most effective means 

 of administering discipline wdth the present day young women. Great credit 

 should be given Miss Dorothy Curts for the wisdom and the faithfulness 

 with which she has met the duties of President of the Council. 



I wish to express, my sincere appreciation of the tact and the hearty 

 cooperation shown by the house mothers in meeting this new problem 

 of self-government. I wdsh to express my sincerest appreciation of the 

 interest and help you have unfailingly given to the solution of the prob- 

 lems of the young women students. 



Very respectfully yours, 



EUDORA H. SAVAGE, 



Dean of Women. 

 East Lansing, Michigan, June 30, 1921. 



