88 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



The twelve students who studied iu residence there have received (1) 

 a knowledge and understanding of the standards to be maintained in the 

 physical care of children. (2) Normal mental development and habit 

 formation. (3) Proper food for children of pre-sichool age and its rela- 

 tion to growth and body efficiency. (4) The social and economic function 

 of the home and its responsibility to the community. It is the hope of 

 both the Merrill-Palmer School and the Home Economics Division that 

 the experimental work done, the method evolved, and the subject matter 

 formulated, will become the foundation for many such courses in other 

 institutions and that later similar work may be given to every member 

 of the senior class on the campus. 



The home management practice was conducted much as it was done 

 on the College campus. The spirit of a real home prevailed and all the 

 activities were organized and carried on in a most efficient manner. 



EDUCATIONAL WORK OFF THE CAMPUS. 



In June, 1921, with the consent of President Kedzie, I planned to co- 

 operate w^ith Dean S. A. Courtis, Director of the Detroit Teachers Col- 

 lege, in giving two courses of lectures in connection with the Evening 

 School classes, one in the ^'Mal'-mitrition of Children" and the other in 

 ''Saving and Spending". The course extended from October fifteenth to 

 March twentieth and required my presence in Detroit one day per week. 

 The matriculation in both courses far exceeded the most sanguine pre- 

 dictions and included largely principals, assistant principals, and special 

 teachers and supervisors in the high schools of the city. In the course 

 dealing with mal-nutrition, employees of the city board of health, (the 

 physical education department), special schools and a majority of the 

 home economics teachers, were enrolled. Much was accomplished in 

 bringing to this important group the character of work being done at 

 the College and the service it could render such city school systems. The 

 fact that the total enrollment of students in the Division included less 

 than twenty from Detroit confirms the need for making such educational 

 contacts. 



Several times during the year I conferred and advised the city school 

 administrators in Grand Rapids regarding developing the work in Home 

 Economics in the grades and high schools, also with the Y. W. C. A. in 

 their plans for their educational foundation, to be established for work- 

 ing girls. 



From July 1, 1921, to July 1, 1922, there were received one hundred 

 and forty invitations to speak from women's clubs, sdhools, county ex- 

 tension agents, granges, leagues of women voters; of these it was 

 possible to accept only 33 ; eight of these Avere requests from outside the 

 State, at which it was to the advantage of the College to have a represen- 

 tative present. The home-maker in Michigan is keenly interested in the 

 home economics education which the College is giving and wants to profit 

 in her daily living by advice and information which can be given by our 

 staJB: iu public lectures. A very real educational service to the adult 

 women of the State can be rendered in this way. 



Mutually helpful co-operation has been maintained with the Home 

 Demonstration work of the Extension Di-\"ision of the College and the 

 Supervisor of Vocational Education. 



