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ment to make a profit, which has not been any part of the training 

 offered in the Womans' Commons. 



Three stndents, taking this course, have gone into Institutional Man- 

 agement work this year and we have received word of several openings 

 with exceptional futures for students qualified along this line. 



Unfortunately, the Tea Koom has not been a financial success. This 

 has been partly due to the fact that it was not started until late in the 

 season and was not established until winter had set in. The students, of 

 course, had already made arrangements for their board and very few 

 could afl'ord to take their meals outside of the Dormitories. 



The Home Economics Department feels very strongly that the Tea 

 Koom should be kept open, if possible, or at least until the Union 

 Memorial Building is completed. 



HOME MANAGEMENT PRACTICE (h. E. 32) : 



The work at the Practice House has been continued this year as 

 formerly. 



Field trips taken by Tractice House students include the Lansing 

 Steam Laundry, the Western Electric Company, Jury-Kowe Company, 

 and Hoover & Bond, these trips being supplemented by special reports 

 and investigations by members of the class. 



The work of furnishing the Practice House has been continued this 

 year, with the remainder of the fund subscribed by the Alumnae. The 

 guest room has been completely furnished and several new pieces of 

 furniture have been purchased for the down-stairs rooms. The senior 

 girls, of their own volition, are purchasing a piano, by subscribing .|15.00 

 a month until all payments are completed. .During the spring term, 

 the ffoors of the Practice House were repainted and a new rug and 

 furniture added to the Instructor's living room. 



During the school year, there were forty-eight residents in the Practice 

 House. 



MERRILL-PALMER SCHOOL: 



The work which the students are doing at Merrill-Palmer School in 

 Detroit, is proving exceedingly valuable and the interest in this project is 

 rapidly increasing among the students. There have been numerous requests 

 from students on the Campus to be allowed to take the course at Merrill- 

 Palmer, because they are beginning to appreciate the real worth of such 

 a course. 



The Merrill-Palmer Board has arranged to pay the salaries of their 

 instructors, without outside assistance and, therefore. Miss Lola G. 

 Yerkes is no longer on the pay-roll of Michigan Agricultural College. 

 This has made no difference, however, in the number of M. A. C. girls who 

 will attend Merrill-Palmer next year, since they will continue to take 

 six of our girls each term, although the entire number of students will 

 be limited to twenty. The Merrill-Palmer Board is highly pleased with 

 the type of girls we are sending there. 



Students returning from Merrill-Palmer express a very strong desire 

 that more general Psychology be given at Michigan Agricultural College, 

 in order to prepare them for the more advanced work at Merrill-Palmer. 



