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hold Economics, given at the University of Wisconsin, have been 

 published and most warmly received. 



Other agricultural colleges are working along these lines. Iowa 

 has a fine equipment in the food laboratory or kitchen in charge of 

 Miss Gertrude Coburn, a graduate of the Kansas Agricultural Col- 

 lege. North and South Dakota have valuable courses in domestic 

 science; also Fort Collins, Colorado; the Storrs Agricultural College, 

 Connecticut; and the Michigan Agricultural College, where the 

 course is in charge of Miss Edith F. McDermott, a graduate of Drexel 

 Institute. 



Quite possibly they have done so much in the direction of this 

 science, realizing the criticism of Mrs. Ellen H. Richards. She says 

 there are some fifty agricultural colleges and experiment stations in 

 the United States, costing many millions of money, for the study of 

 the food of pigs, cows, and horses. A cow is worth, perhaps, on an 

 average, fifty dollars. It is important that she should be well fed, 

 so that the most may be made of her capabilities. A man is worth 

 three thousand dollars to three hundred thousand dollars, measured 

 by his capabilities, salary, etc. (Five per cent of three thousand dol- 

 lars equals one hundred and fifty dollars, the salary of a very ignorant 

 man ; five per cent of thirty thousand dollars equals fifteen hundred 

 dollars, a common salary of teachers; while fifteen thousand dollars 

 is the common salary of a skilled engineer.) We send our young men 

 to college to be fitted for thirty-thousand-dollar teachers and three- 

 hundred-thousand-dollar engineers, and we take less care of their 

 food than does the farmer of his fifty-dollar cow. 



That there is a strong demand for courses in which the study of 

 chemistry shall be applied to food, economics of the household, and its 

 kindred subjects, is evinced by the number of colleges where these 

 subjects are now taught. This age is awakening to the fact that 

 women need special opportunities as women; and after the first blind 

 rush for equal opportunities with men for higher education, it is de- 

 manding courses of instruction which shall include full credit-earning 

 courses in that combination of sciences which is woman's own. 



Important coeducational institutions besides Chicago University 

 give instruction now in domestic science, while others are considering 

 the matter. Wisconsin State University has already been mentioned. 

 The Leland Stanford, Jr., University has lately done admirable work 

 under the able direction of Mrs. Mary Roberts Smith, a graduate of 

 Cornell, and for some years professor of history at Wellesley Col- 

 lege. These, with the Boston Institute of Technology and Ohio 

 State University, are a few which have already been teaching the 

 subject, while inquiries are continually coming from many more, as 

 well as from large seminaries. 



