1460 The Cornell Reading-Courses 



Miss Isabel Bevier, State University, Champaign, Illinois — Some 



essentials of a comfortable home. March 6-8, 2 p. m., Boardman A. 



March 8, 3 p. m., Boardman A. 

 Mrs. Anna B. Comstock. March 5 and 7, 3 p. m., Boardman A. 

 Mrs. Linda Hall Larned, Syracuse, New York — Entertaining and serving. 



March q and 10, 2:30 p. m. 

 Mrs. Mary Hinman Abel, Baltimore, Maryland — The relation of the 



householder to the question of safe food. March 13 and 14, 3 p. m., 



Boardman A. 

 M. V. Slingerland — Insect pests of house and garden. March 13, 14, 



15, White 12. 



The first courses for university credit. — The interest shown in home 

 economics by women outside the college led to the belief that the college 

 girl might also be interested in the subject. During the year a general 

 course in home economics, with three hours credit, was given by Miss 

 Van Rensselaer. The course was attended by about fifteen men and women 

 from the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Agriculture. 

 Instruction was planned which would give students a practical knowledge 

 of home-making and would prepare the way for more permanent teaching. 



Development of the Department of Home Economics. — Finally, in 1907, 

 Director Bailey announced that permission had been given by the Board 

 of Trustees to establish a Department of Home Economics in the New 

 York State College of Agriculture. As the first group of agricultural 

 buildings was nearing completion the department was given rooms in 

 the east and west ends of the fourth floor of the Main Building. There 

 the department began its work. For its extension and administrative 

 work it had three offices, together with a laboratory suitable for twenty 

 students. Afterward a room that had been formerly used for photo- 

 graphic purposes was transformed into a kitchen and dining-room. Until 

 the new Home Economics Building was available these were the accom- 

 modations. Here the Home-makers' Conference was organized, a large 

 amount of extension work was undertaken, and a regular course in home 

 economics was begun. Meanwhile the interest of women students and 

 of the women of the State showed that the subject of home economics 

 was vital to them. 



The I loinr Economics Building. — The growth of the department soon 

 necessitated larger quarters. A bill authorizing an appropriation of 

 Si 54,000 for the construction of a new Home Economics building passed 

 the Legislature <-!' 1909-1910. There were delays in starting the building. 

 On the site of the old red barn north of the Main Building of the College 

 of Agriculture, ground was broken for the new building during the summer 



