146 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



REPORT OF THE DEAN OF DIVISION OF HOME ECONOMICS. 



President F. S. Kedzie, Michigan Agricultural College : 



Dear Sir — Permit me to present the following report for the Division 

 of Home Economics for the year 1915-191G. 



The enrollment for the year, exclusive of the Summer School, was 330 

 as against 299 for the jear 1914-1915. The comparative enrollment by 

 classes was as follows: 



19U-'15 1915-'16 



Graduates 3 2 



Seniors 44 64 



Juniors 62 60 



Sophomores 70 71 



Freshmen 97 120 



Special 23 13 



Total 299 330 



This increase in numbers, though nut large, has made necessary read- 

 justments along many lines; as the dormitory, dining-room and lab- 

 oratory accommodations were inadequate to meet it. It has also seemed 

 essential to make some changes in the plans for the life of the young 

 w^omen and in the regulations governing their social activities, for more 

 than half of the students in the division, aside from those whose homes 

 are in Lansing and East Lansing, were housed outside of the Woman's 

 Building and the problems to be met have been increasingly those of a 

 scattered body of students rather than those of a group living under one 

 roof. 



Some changes were made in the instructing force of the division : 

 Miss Mary E. Edmonds was made head of the Domestic Science depart- 

 ment; Miss Zella E. Bigelow, instructor in Domestic Art; Miss Edna 

 Garvin, instructor in Domestic Science and Art; Miss Margaret M. Jus- 

 tin, Extension Specialist; Miss Anna Bryant Cowles, assistant in Ex- 

 tension Work. A new position of House Mother was filled by Mrs. 

 Cornelia R. Lindsay, for the year. Mrs. L. L. Peppard, head of the Do- 

 mestic Art department was away from the College on leave of absence 

 during the spring term, studying at the University of Chicago. It is 

 with regret that we lose from the division this year. Miss Florence Far- 

 well w^ho has done such efficient work as House Director; Miss Clara 

 King Morris, instructor in Domestic Science; and Miss Lyla Edgerton, 

 instructor in Music. 



The question of suitable dormitory accommodations has continued to 

 be one of the pressing questions in providing for the women of the Col- 

 lege. The Woman's Building has been improved during the year by 

 steel ceilings in the main corridors, offices and laboratories; by bring- 

 ing soft water into the house; and by installing a passenger elevator. 

 The elevator, especially, added greatly to the comfort and health not only 



