148 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



The division has endeavored during the year, to relate its work more 

 closely to the needs of the women of the State and the results of the in- 

 creased contact with them have been illuminating and helpful. Partly 

 as a result of this endeavor, a plan has been outlined by representatives 

 of a number of women's organizations in the State for uniting the ef- 

 forts of the Michigan Home Economics Association; the Teachers of the 

 State; the Federation of Women's Clubs; the Grange; the Farmer's 

 Clubs; the Cileanors ; the State Nurses' Association; and other inter- 

 ested organizations, with those of the College, toward introducing home 

 economics into all the i)ublic schools of the State as rapidly as local 

 conditions will permit. 



It is with pleasure that I report the progress that has been made to- 

 ward raising the permanent Student Aid Fund of .'f.'l.OOO. Mrs. C. B. 

 ('ollingwood, who has been President oi the J'^ast Lansing Wonmn's Club 

 and Chairman of the Committee of the State Federation for the fund, 

 has secured the interest of many of the Alumnae of the College as well 

 as of many of the Women's Clubs, and the amount of |l,oOO is already 

 available for u.se. A committee consisting of one member elected by the 

 Alumnae Association; one, appointed by the Michigan Federation of 

 Women's Clubs; and the Dean of the Division will have charge of ad- 

 ministering the fund. 



The Alumnae have also been active in furnishing a guest room in the 

 Woman's Building that will enable the division to extend, again, the 

 hospitality to college guests which the crowded condition of the Build- 

 ing has made impossible in recent years. 



In reviewing, after two years of work, the progress which has been 

 made and comparing it with the standards which, as a division, we wish 

 to establish and maintain for our students along the lines of scholarship 

 and personal development, as well as along social lines, it has seemed to 

 me that our greatest need at the present time is that of a Home Econ- 

 omics Building in Avhicli the class work of the division can be carried on 

 apart from the dormitory and social life. There are two reasons for 

 this decision: 



1. As long as laboratories and lecture rooms are connected physically 

 and in the minds of the students with the more informal social and dor- 

 mitory life, it is much more difficult to secure the attitude of mind 

 that is most conducive to scholarship and the recognition of the import- 

 ance of regularity and concentration in work. 



2. The increase in numbers is already making it necessary to consider 

 the equipping of new laboratories in both Domestic Science and Domestic 

 Art, and the economy of money, and of the time and energy of the teach- 

 ing force that will be secured by aiTanging for the work to be done in 

 one well equipped building will be great. It will also release rooms in 

 the Woman's Building, which will help to relieve the over crowded con- 

 dition there. 



Permit me, therefore, to ask your consideration, — and that of the 

 State Board of Agriculture, — of the need of more laboratories and class 

 rooms to meet the demands which are being made upon us by the in- 



