DEPARTMENT OF HOME ECONOMICS. 



The work of the Department of Home Economics has this year 

 embraced : 



1. Teaching: 



(a) The work of the four years' course. 



(b) A general course open to students from any college of 



Cornell University. 



2. Investigation. 



3. Extension — embracing : 



(a) Winter course of three months. 



(b) Farmers' Wives Reading Course. 



(c) Field work, including lectures and exhibits throughout the 



State. 



(d) Housekeepers' course during Farmers' Week. 



I. TEACHING. 



The arrangements for a course in Home Economics to continue 

 through four years and lead to the degree of the college were suf- 

 ficiently well organized by the fall of 1908 to permit the registration 

 of students desiring to specialize in this line of work. No demands 

 were made by the Department upon freshmen students during this 

 year owing to intended changes in the curriculum which have since 

 gone into efifect, hence there has been no way of determining the 

 exact number intending to register in Home Economics. It has 

 been determined, however, that at least seven of the freshmen 

 students registered in the College of Agriculture during this year 

 are to specialize in Home Economics. 



The changes in the college curriculum during this year were of 

 a nature to allow for a much more liberal outline of work in this 

 Department and material changes were made in the original plans 

 for a four years' course to go into effect in the fall of 1909. 



The course open to students of other colleges but having no con- 

 nection with the four years' work was changed from a one-term 

 course to a two-term course. There were fourteen students regis- 

 tered in this course for the first term and twelve who continued 

 through the entire year. The two who dropped out were students 



