DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 



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Instructors, full time (4); part time (1). 



East Lansing, Jnne 30, 1908. 



Respectfully submitted, 



CHACE NEWMAN, 

 Assistant Professor of Drawing. 



REPORT OF THE WOMEN'S DEPARTMENT. 



To the President: 



Dear Sir: — The enrollment in the W^omen's Department the past year 

 Avas two hundred, sixty of whom were specials. The building was 

 crowded during the fall and winter terms, but several of the rooms 

 were free for the use of guests in the spring. It becomes more and 

 more evident each year that we are in need of 

 A small sum, even, could be used to advantage 

 paying their own way, and who must drop out 

 3'ear. 



We began the year with a new teacher, Miss Pearl MacDonald, in 



a students' aid fund, 

 for students Avho are 

 before the end of the 



charge 



having 

 Miss Bemis has given 



of Domestic Science, and the dining room. Miss MacDonald 

 has given much attention to club matters, and succeeded in 

 good meals served at an average of |2.15 per week 



very successfully some of the courses heretofore taken by the senior 

 teacher, thus securing for Miss MacDonald more time for club duties. In 

 the fall and winter, Miss Lillian Taft rendered valuable assistance by 

 taking one of the sections in jSirst year cookery. 



The dei)artment regretted very much to lose Mrs. Haner, who left 



us in February to accept a position in the University of Idaho. She 



had been in charge of the work in Domestic Art, since the department 



was organized, and her faithful services, and careful work were always 



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