DEPARTMENT REPORTS. ' 77 



factory scholarship. Fifty per eeut of these withdrawals were among 

 the freshmen and thirty-three per cent among soptiomores. 



INSTRUCTIONAL FORCE. 



Misses Minerva Fonts and Florence Stoll resigned and were married 

 during the summer. Miss Cecil Van Steenburg resigned to follow grad- 

 uate study, and Miss Hilda Faust iiud Louise Clemens were granted 

 leave of absence for part of the j^ear for furtlier study. The following 

 afpp ointments were made : 



Emma Garrison, B. S. Columbia : Assistant Professor of Home Eco- 

 nomics. 



Rebekah Gibbons, M. Sc. Pennsylvania State College: Associate Pro- 

 fessor of Home Economics. 



Irnia Gross, B. Sc, Chicago University: Instructor. 



Lola Yerkes, B. Sc, Columbia Universit^^ : Associate Professor. 



Dorothy Shank, B. Sc, Columbia University: Assistant Professor. 



Jule Nelson, B. Sc. Purdue University : Instructor. 



Marion Tucker, B. Sc. Columbia University: Associate Professor. 



Sylvia Borgman, B. Sc. Minnest)ta: Instructor. 



Mrs. May Person Kirby : Asked to take the duties of Assistant to the 

 Dean. 



COURSE OF STUDY. 



Beginning witli the opening of the college year the revised course of 

 study became operative and it has far exceeded all expectations in the 

 results accomplished. The students have expressed great satisfaction be- 

 cause of the freedom it gave for electing subjects in which they were 

 especially interested, and for specializing in the varied lines of home 

 economics work. 



The Home Economics faculty has found that the revised course gives 

 opportunity to present individual courses in a much more comprehensive 

 manner and to raise definitely the requirement for the students. The 

 teaching staffs in other divisions have expressed tliemselves as delighted 

 with the possibility it affords for a wider election in their subjects and 

 have observed that the young Avomen are showing a keener interest in 

 their respective subjects than before; and now that further pursuit of a 

 subject is left Avith the student a broader type of college work will be 

 voluntarily taken. 



DEVELOPMENT OP THE WORK OF THE DIVISION. 

 BROADENING OP COURSES ALREADY OFFERED. 



Fundamental courses have been strengthened and thirty per cent of 

 the time formerly given to laboratory work was devoted to lectures, re- 

 ports and discussions. 



All field work begun spring term last year has been broadened and 

 strengthened : 



The problems in nutrition (H. E. 12a, b, and c), carried on as part of 

 advanced dietetics last year, Avas offered this year as an elective course 



