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of those who have lived in the building, but also of those who have come 

 to the dining-room from the outside houses. The experiment which was 

 tried this year of housing twenty girls in a small house leased by the 

 College, and known as the ''College Cottage" has proved satisfactory 

 both to the students living in it and to those in charge of the division. 

 With a matron and a teacher in residence, a home life has been pos- 

 sible which gives promise of making the transition from normal home 

 life to the life of the large dormitory less difficult. It is the plan for 

 next year to lease a second house, on Albert Avenue, which will furnish 

 dormitory accommodations for thirty students and will have, in addi- 

 tion, a dining-room sufficiently large to provide for a boarding club of 

 fifty members. 



The new course of study for the division, which was outlined last 

 year, went into effect this year for freshmen and juniors, and though 

 its efficiency cannot be determined until it has been longer in use, the 

 slightly greater flexibility and the concentration of effort on fewer sub- 

 jects which characterized the course, have seemed to give satisfaction to 

 the students and to strengthen the work of the departments concerned. 

 A few changes will be made for next year that are indicative of the 

 direction in which the work of the division is tending. 



Two five credit courses in Physiological Chemistry have been added as 

 requirements for juniors, prerequisite to the work in Dietetics and the 

 senior courses in Foods. This will enable the department to offer 

 more advanced work in Domestic Science than could be offered before, 

 and will strengthen existing courses. 



A change will be made in the technical work of the first two years. 

 Either music, or drawing and English, has been a requirement through- 

 out those years. In has been felt that it would help to foster a real in- 

 terest in music and an appreciation of it,^ — as well as raise college stand- 

 ards, — if music should be made elective and the technical work in it be 

 given college credit only when a certain stage of proficiency had been 

 attained by the student, and when the work was combined with courses 

 in musical theory. With this in mind, free, required music has been 

 dropped from the course and the two credits per term which were given 

 to it have been added to the regular technical work of the division. 



It has been the hope of the division to have, at some time, a house 

 which could be used as a practice house for senior girls, in order that 

 they might have the opportunity to apply to the management of a home, 

 the knowledge and skill which they had acquired in the various courses 

 in Domestic Science and Domestic Art. This hope is to be realized by 

 the action of the State Board in giving to the division the house which 

 has been for so many years the home of the President of the College, that 

 it may be used as a Senior House. It is planned to equip the house with 

 modern facilities for home keeping that will be simple, attractive and in 

 accordance with the standards of the College. Twenty seniors will be 

 in residence each term and will, under the immediate direction of the 

 teaching staff of the Domestic Science department, carry on the work 

 and life of the home. As far as possible, the furnishing and equipping 

 of the house will be done by the classes in Domestic Science and Do- 

 mestic Art. We believe this will mark a great advance in the efficiency 

 of the work in the junior and senior years. 



