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decoration, and preparatory courses for nurses, and technical training in cos- 

 tume design, management of institutional laundries, social work, and other 

 specific fields; and special practical courses for part-time students in household 

 management, home nursing, care of children, elementary and advanced cookery 

 for household use, costume design, house sanitation, etc. 



The new building of the school ad.ioins the main building of the college on 

 tlie east, is IGO feet long ;ind 00 feet deep, consists of 5 floors, a basement, and- 

 Ji tower of 2 additional stories rising 120 feet from the street level, and will 

 jicconrnodate 400 students. 



Summer School for Teachers. — The first session of the Oberlin Sununer School 

 of Methods is being held in Oberlin. Ohio, during the G weeks ending August 0. 

 Instruction will be offered in various subjects of interest to elementary and high 

 school teachers, including manual training, agriculture, forestry, agricultural 

 education, domestic science and art. nature study, and human physiology and 

 hygiene. 



. Summer Course in Agriculture for Manitoba Teachers.— The law of Manitoba 

 now requires that every teacher in the province taking normal work shall take 

 the teachers' course at the Agricultural College before receiving a certificate. 

 Three successive classes ai'e taking the 2 weeks' course this summer. 



The work includes field husbandry— importance of field crops in western 

 Canada, insect economy, grain judging, and identifying foul-weed seeds; animal 

 husbandry — lectures on the relation of live stock to modern agriculture, prin- 

 ciples of feeding, development and characteristics of the more important breeds 

 of live stock, together with practical demonstrations in the judging pavilion ; 

 dairying — milk testing, composition of milk, and its products, principles of cream 

 separation, churning, etc. ; horticulture, foi'estry, and botany ; and some work in 

 mechanics. 



Nova Scotia Agricultural College. — The fourth annual report of the principal 

 of the Xova .Scotia Agricultural College, Truro, shows that the attendance in 

 the regular 2-year course has increased from 23 in 190.5-6 to 48 in 1908-9, and 

 the attendance in the short course from 40 in 1904 to 221 in 1909. The 

 attendance in the rural school of science, July-August, 1908, was 30. 



This summer school, especially suited for teachers, was conducted by the 

 college and normal school staffs. The course is so arranged that the work 

 can be completed in 3 summer vacations, or if students have had considerable 

 science training, in 2 or even a single session. Teachers completing this course 

 and receiving the rural science diploma receive an extra grant from the 

 government of Nova Scotia. 



At the women's short course in January, 1909. there were regularly enrolled 

 18 students, and in some classes 30. Instruction was given in horticulture, 

 dairying, seed selection, poultry raising, domestic science, and judging horses 

 and cattle. For the first time in the history of the Maritime Provinces agri- 

 cultural students have issued a paper dealing with matters relating to the 

 agricultural college and the general interests of the eastern farmer. This 

 magazine, the first number of which was issued in January, 1909, is known as 

 The Maritime Students' Agrieiiltiirist. 



Forestry Education in New Brunswick.- — As an outcome of the Provincial For- 

 estry Convention held in Fredericton in February, 1907, a grant of $2,.500 was 

 made for the establishment of a department of forestry in the University of 

 New Brunswick, Fredericton. The course now offered covers 4 years, leading 

 to a bachelor's degree, and runs parallel with the engineering course, with the 

 addition of botanj^ in the freshman and forest botany in the sophomore years. 

 There are 13 men in all classes. 



