DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 39 



REPORT OF WOMEN'S DEPARTMENT. 



To the President : 



The report of the Women's Department for the year 190;^-19()4 is here- 

 with submitted. 



The enrollment for the year was 210. The Women's Building accom- 

 modated 119, while 26 had rooms in the neighborhood and were under 

 the immediate supervision of the department. This increased number 

 taxed the seating capacity of the dining room and it became evident that 

 some plan should he made for selecting the candidates for entrance in 

 the future. It is a significant fact that 8-i of these students were en- 

 rolled as specials. Before the end of the year this niimber was still 

 further increased by young women who changed their course and se- 

 lected their studies. 



The various lines of work have been carried on as i;sual. The new 

 course in wood work was given for the first time in the fall term by 

 Mrs. Gingles, and that in laundering was given in the winter term by 

 Miss Carpenter. The lectures in Home Nursing were given by Mrs. 

 Barber throughout the fall term rather than during the half term only, 

 as heretofore. 



Miss Lyford, instructor in Domestic Science for the past four years, 

 sent in her resignation early in the spring and will take advanced work 

 at Drexel Institute next year. Mrs. Gingles, who has been in charge 

 of Domestic Art for the past year and assistant for the preceding year, 

 expects to enter Teacher's College, Columbia University, in the fall. 

 Both these ladies have been efficient workers and the department wishes 

 to express its appreciation of their services and the hope that the future 

 has abundant success in store for them. 



The other members of the teaching force are retained. Mrs. Haner, 

 who has been absent on leave, will return to take charge of the work in 

 Domestic Art with Miss St. John as assistant; Miss Carpenter will be 

 in charge of Domestic Science and of Club C; Miss Freyhofer, instructor 

 in music, with Miss ]\Iack as student assistant; Miss Avery director of 

 physical training and health officer. 



The shower bath rooms, in connection with the gymnasium, were fitted 

 up at the beginning of the year at considerable expense, and a set of 

 lockers was added to the equipment of the town students' rooms. 

 Both these improvements were much needed. A new Steinway Grand 

 was placed in the parlor last fall and has added greatly to the success 

 of the recitals which have been given every term. 



The Music Festival, held May 19, under Miss Freyhofer's direction, 

 while not belonging exclusively to the Women's Department, is an event 

 which deserves to be chronicled. The M. A. C. chorus, assisted by Miss 

 Maud Staley, soprano; Mrs. Rachel Frease Green, soprano; Mr. Walter 

 C. Howell, basso; Mr. Edwin H. Douglass, tenor, and :Nrr. S. T. Schroel- 

 ter, pianist,' gave Hayden's "Creation" to the comi)let(^ satisfacti<ui of 

 a large audience. 



The experiment of evening classes has been tried during the year with 



