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well-equipped, well-organized domestic science department as 

 Kansas. 



President George T. Fairchild, brother of the famous Ober- 

 lin president, wisel}^ directed the affairs of the Kansas Agri- 

 cultural College for nearly twenty years and laid the founda- 

 tion on broad, practical lines. He was one of the earliest 

 advocates of the laboratory, manual or technical training, 

 along with the scientific and English work, in agricultural col- 

 leges. After much opposition and against many obstacles, he 

 demonstrated the advantages of such training for the students 

 under his care. He always said, "We learn best by doing; 

 so we must have adequate laboratories for the sciences and 

 shops for the manual and technical training." He often said, 

 "Our students are young enough to graduate here ; then go to 

 the university for the higher training; for we train the head 

 and hand together." He believed this so thoroughly that he 

 sent his three sons to the agricultural college for their prelimi- 

 nary training, before he sent them on to an Eastern college to 

 take professional studies. 



Very early in the history of this college, domestic science 

 was put into the curriculum for the girls, on the same basis as 

 the practical agriculture for the boys ; and no boy could grad- 

 uate without the agriculture, and no girl without the domestic 

 science. 



The boys have five hours per week of actual practical farm 

 work in fields, gardens, orchards and in caring for the farm 

 animals; besides class-room lessons and lectures upon agricul- 

 ture, soils, etc. The girls beginning with the first year have 

 five hours weekly devoted to plain sewing, dressmaking, em- 

 broidering, etc., besides lectures on economic and hygienic 

 clothing for women and children. The second year is devoted 

 to cooking all kinds of foods from the plain bread and beef- 

 steak to pies, cakes, puff-paste and French candies. Serving a 

 meal daintily and artistically is also a part of the actual labora- 

 tory training; for there is not only a kitchen and range, but a 

 china closet and a dining room, where breakfasts, lunches a^nd 

 dinners are actually served by the girls, who have to act as 

 hostess when the governor and regents, faculty or less august 

 friends visit the college. 



Besides this, the girls are taught how to cook for invalids 

 and children, and study the proper balanced ration for the 

 brain worker, day laborer or athlete; and the chemistry of 

 all the staple foods and their relative digestibility. 



Fruit canning, the making of jellies, jams, preserves and 

 pickles is put in the last year, along with marketing, for those 

 girls who take domestic science for their major subject. 



It is needless to say that many a girl specializes in domestic 

 science, especially if during the four years' study she has con- 

 sidered the profifered partnership of some young farmer and 



