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scholarship was awarded to Thomas Burford, Des Moines, age 20. The 

 conditions of the competition for the Armour scholarships were that 

 the young men were to be under 21 years of age and of limited means 

 which would render them incapable of getting through college on their 

 own resources. The contest was limited to students who had not at- 

 tended an agricultural college course previously. There were no restric- 

 tions as to financial standing in connection with the distribution of the 

 Rosenbaum scholarship. 



The tribute paid to the work of Dean Charles F. Curtiss and his as- 

 sistants by the Breeders' Gazette, is worth repeating. "Iowa ideas are 

 growing. Some are fruiting in economic reforms, others in the improve- 

 ment of farm crops and farm practices. It is fitting that a farm state 

 should be the incubator of helpful ideas for agricultural people. The 

 Iowa Agricultural College at Ames has fairly inoculated the State with 

 the virus which compels farmers to think, to plan, to improve and to 

 help one another." 



"THE SHORT COURSE AT AMES." 



Miss Mahel C. Peters, Sac City, Iowa, tefore Sac County Farmers' Institute. 



I arrived in Ames about dusk and took the electric motor, which 

 rapidly carried me to the college grounds. I was shown to Margaret Hall, 

 where I was to receive room and board while there, which is a very home- 

 like place. The next morning when daylight appeared I was very favor- 

 ably impressed with the location. 



We were told to get goods for a shirt waist before we came to our worlv 

 at 9 o'clock. The mornings of the first few days were spent in each girl 

 making herself a shirt waist, with Miss Donovan as instructor. The 

 afternoons of those days were spent in the chemical laboratory working 

 out some experiments in chemistry, very much like I had in my chemistry 

 work here in the academy last year, only it had more bearing on foods. 

 Mr. Mitchell was instructor in this work. 



On Saturday our work in the cooking department commenced. The 

 mornings were spent in the cooking laboratory throughout the remainder 

 of the short course. At 9 o'clock every morning we assembled in Clio 

 Hall and listened to a half-hour talk from Mrs. Feulhing, which was very 

 instructive. From there we went to the cooking laboratory, which is on 

 the third floor in Mai'garet Hall. Here there are three kitchens, a dining 

 room and a pantry. Very cheerful, tidily kept rooms. Each kitchen is 

 provided with several tables, in each three or four drawers containing 

 cooking utensils. The short course students were equally divided among 

 these three kitchens, with an instructor presiding over each kitchen. 

 Three or four girls were assigned a place at each table. Each girl had at 

 her place a little gas stove on which to do her cooking and a drawer con- 

 taining her cooking utensils. As soon as we had taken our places at 

 the table a printed slip was passed to each containing recipes of the 

 cooking for that day. Every one went immediately to work. After the 

 cooking was done the dish washing came, as usual. There was a certain 

 order in which these utensils were to be kept. After these were put 



