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" The lectures should treat of — 



" 1. The house and its foundations and surroundings from a 

 sanitary as well as an architectural standpoint. 



" 2. The mechanical apparatus of the house, heating, lighting, 

 ventilation, drainage, etc., including methods of testing their effi- 

 ciency. 



" 3. Furnishing and general care of a house, including what 

 might be called applied physiology, chemistry of food and nutrition, 

 and the chemistry of cleaning. 



" 4. Food and clothing of a family. 



" 5. Relation of domestic service to the general question of labor, 

 with a discussion of present conditions and proposed reforms. 



" The practical work should include : — 



" 1. Visits of inspection, accompanied by the instructor, to houses 

 in process of construction, of good and bad types, both old and new. 



" 2. Visits to homes where the housekeeper has put in practice 

 some or all of the theories of modern sanitary and economic living. 



" 3. Conferences with successful and progressive housekeepers. 



" 4. Practical work and original investigation in the laboratory 

 of sanitary chemistry." 



This was the outline originally prepared by Miss Talbot, and de- 

 scribes the course as she gave it at Wellesley in 1891 and 1892, enter- 

 ing upon her work there at about this time. 



To show the respect which Mrs. Richards's attainments as a scholar 

 and scientist have won with the world, as well as giving added sig- 

 nificance to the fact of her doing so much in the field of domestic sci- 

 ence. The Outlook for September, 1897, is quoted: " Her contribu- 

 tions to science have placed her at the head of the domestic science 

 department of one of the leading educational institutions of the coun- 

 try, and have established her as an authority in her own field, a 

 woman whose advice, investigations, and decisions are accepted by 

 the leading scientists and authorities." 



Mrs. Richards and Miss Talbot have made themselves felt in 

 connection with this work in still another direction. In the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago, domestic science is not only taught but practiced. 

 When Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer and Miss Marion Talbot con- 

 sented to go there as deans of the woman's department, it was with 

 the understanding that they should have an opportunity to carry out 

 their convictions that college trustees and professors have done their 

 whole duty by their students only when they see that they are prop- 

 erly fed as well as properly taught. Accordingly, when the three 

 halls for the accommodation of the women students were com- 

 pleted, they undertook, with Mrs. Ellen H. Richards as expert ad- 

 viser, to furnish a dietary which should be kept within a certain cost, 



