DEPARTMENT REPORTS 75 



for the purpose of developing; a graduate and research department in 

 this Division. A fund of |1,G00 was made avaihible for the equipment 

 of a small nutrition laboratory for use for research and for advanced 

 nutrition courses. A few large pieces of apparatus which can be moved 

 to the new Home Economics Building have been purchased this year 

 such as a Benedict Portable Eespiration apparatus, and an excellent 

 electric oven, centrifuge and balance. Other supplies were bought in 

 small amounts, enough to take care of classes for this year. This equip- 

 ment will form the foundation for the laboratory provided in the new 

 building. 



Miss Dye's work this year has been one of securing, installing and 

 organizing the equipment in the laboratory and the conducting of classes 

 in advanced nutrition. 



Two students have already made application for graduate work, looking 

 toward receiving an advanced degree and plans have been made for start- 

 ing research as soon as the laboratories in the new buihling are availal>le. 



SPECIAL INVESTIOATION IN NUTRITION (ll. E. 15) : 



The content of this course has been entirely changed from that of last 

 year. The lecture Avork has consisted of a study of special phases of 

 Nutrition, such as the problem of the cause and prevention of rickets, 

 the relation of iodine in the food supply to goiter, and the relation of 

 calcium to the formation of bones and teeth. 



The laboratory work has consisted of actual experiments with rats, 

 demonstrating the effects of proper and improper selection of foods upon 

 the growth and health of the animal. New stock animals have been pro- 

 cured for the colony and it has been materially enlarged. New cages have 

 been built for the stock animals and small cages purchased for those on 

 experimental diets. 



The value of this course to the student is perhaps self evident since, 

 as is easily seen, it brings home very forcibly to the student the relation 

 between the selection of food and health. 



RESEARCH PROBLEMS IN NUTRITION (h. E. 16) : 



The lecture work of this course has been devoted especially to the 

 study of the research metliods, used for the establishment of standards 

 for total food requirements and protein requirements. 



The laboratory work has been a continuation of the animal experi- 

 Inents started previously and the measurement of basal metabolism of 

 all students in the class, together with the determination of nitrogen 

 intake and output on high and low protein diets. 



This course is preparatory for the beginning of research work as 

 graduate students and gives the student an aitpreciation of the method 

 and value of research. 



PROBLEMS IN NUTRITION (12a, b aud c.) : 



The field work in Nutrition (H. E. 12a, b and c) which was begun 

 last year, as a separate course elective for all students but Food Majors 

 and a required course for them, has been continued during the year 



