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students graduating from this Department. Even at this immature 

 stage an urgent need is felt for better accommodations. Already 

 the Department is beginning to be felt as a center of certain social 

 activities which have an important part in college affairs. The 

 members of the Department are by no means satisfied with the way 

 in which this side has been conducted this past year, involving 

 as it do€S an expenditure of energy entirely out of proportion 

 to the results accomplished. A large space is needed for 

 such entertainment, with convenient kitchen arrangements. Thii 

 could be used as a large experimental laboratory for training in 

 institutional work. While the laboratory space at present available 

 has been insufficient even during this past year, it may be stretched 

 for another year to fill the growing demands upon it. Beyond that, 

 what? 



If the question of hygienic and convenient farm houses is to be 

 continually agitated, the only practical method of driving the nail 

 home will be to have an example of one in active operation on 

 the campus. One journey through such a house will be more 

 stirring in its eft'ects than all the class work given in four years or 

 all the talking done at institutes. 



Funds are needed to develop this Department, and the present 

 appropriation provides nothing at all for growth. 



The work now done in extension among women of the State is 

 small compared with what is before us to do. The rural women are 

 now alive to the necessity of making their household work scientific 

 and are asking for assistance. There is need for a larger appro- 

 priation for this work and for an assistant who will be able to visit 

 farm communities or attend to the work of the college to relieve 

 the present instructors so that they may respond to outside calls. 



The growth of the Reading-Course is not through any great effort 

 on the part of this Department, because we are already unable to 

 supply bulletins to the extent desired to make the Reading-Course 

 successful. The bulletins during the past year have cost $r,ooo. 

 The demand everywhere is for more literature. We should cer- 

 tainly be able to send out five bulletins and support the effort to add 

 to our mailing list until the Reading-Course is well known through- 

 out the State of New York. 



During the year the fund for this work has not been sufffcient 

 to maintain office expenses. A stenographer should be in the em- 

 ploy of the Department constantly, but the fund does not provide 

 for the salary of a stenographer twelve months of the year. The 

 only way to manage thus far is to curtail the work, which is un- 



