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expects to preside over their home. The young men and 

 women meet freely in class-room and social affairs of the col- 

 lege, and many life-long attachments are formed before grad- 

 uation. There are also special courses in horticulture and 

 home flower gardening offered to any girl who chooses them, 

 and very many choose to spend two hours per w^eek during 

 their senior year in learning how to raise various kinds of 

 house or garden plants. Under the direction of a genial old 

 Scotch gardener these two hours are a delightful recreation, 

 whether it be in the conservatory or out in the spring sun- 

 shine planting seeds or pansies and roses. Every girl also has 

 special lectures in personal hygiene, in the care of a family, 

 in household sanitation, decoration and furnishing; besides, 

 vocal and instrumental music, drawing, designing, etc., are 

 offered to any who choose. 



Perhaps you wonder how they find time during^ these four 

 years for any academic work. All who wish to go to the 

 universitv must prepare their Latin under a tutor outside of 

 college. The general scientific course requires enough mathe- 

 matics, science, German and English for entrance into the 

 scientific course of the university; besides the domestic science 

 and agriculture, economics, psychology, etc. 



The special courses, as the domestic science course, the agri- 

 cultur.ql, mechanical and electrical engineering, or other 

 courses, do not give so broad a training, as the specialization 

 begins earlier. 



The college also offers short summer courses for teachers 

 and winter courses for farmers or those who can not hope 

 to graduate. These courses include domestic science, draw- 

 ing, physical culture, floriculture, dressmaking, bacteriology, 

 dairying, crop production, botany, horticulture and various 

 agricultural subjects. 



Farmers' institutes are conducted throughout the State by 

 the professors from the college. These are supported in every 

 community by the progressive farmers and their wives, many 

 of the leaders having been trained at the college. 



Alany of the Kansas farmers are from the best class of New 

 England, so are an intelligent and thrifty class of people. 

 These, of course, receive the most benefit from these instit- 

 utes and from contact with the men and women who are 

 trained in college. 



However, the illiterate foreigners who have settled on the 

 farms are gaining much good from the lectures and demon- 

 strations given at these institutes and from the farmers who 

 have been trained in college. These college-trained farmers 

 and their wives are a great leaven in every community and are 

 leading their foreign neighbors to send their children to col- 

 lege and to improve their homes and raise their standard of 

 living. 



