II. BY THE STUDY OF HOME MAKING 



The Chairman, in introducing Professor Rose: Over forty years ago 

 certain medical women in New England opened the first training 

 school for nurses in America ; opened it in their own hospital that 

 has always ranked among our best, particularly in its maternity de- 

 partment and school for nurses. This is one of the greatest gifts of 

 the nineteenth century to medical and social progress women 

 trained in the art of applying science to the restoration and main- 

 tenance of health, to guarding infant life and older life. About 

 twenty years ago, again by New England women, one of the greatest 

 contributions to our national system of free education was instituted. 

 It is due very largely to college women that the science and art of 

 making homes has been introduced in the curriculum of public schools. 

 "Domestic science" in the grades, "home economics" in higher 

 courses mean much more than the crude sewing, cookery, memoriz- 

 ing receipts that incapacity in the selection of teachers permits in 

 some places. We shall hear today something of what the women who 

 are fostering this instruction understand concerning home-makers' 

 responsibility toward infancy, maturity and the nation. 



EDUCATION AS A MEANS FOR PREVENTING INFANT 

 MORTALITY 



By Prof. FLORA ROSE, Department of Home Economics, Cornell 



University 



The editor of one of the most widely circulated household 

 journals once said, "In shaping the policy of my magazine, I 

 have always kept in mind one woman who was to me the type 

 whom I wished to help, and to whom I wished to appeal." 



The Home Economics Department at Cornell University is 

 building itself around a central idea, that of' shaping conditions 

 for the child, both in the home and, through the home in the 

 community. 



This work is being accomplished in several distinct ways. 

 First and foremost through class-room instruction. It is the 

 intention of the department to give to every student in the 

 department specific instruction in those matters which vitally 

 concern the habits and welfare of the next generation and to 

 make it possible for a large number of students to receive this 

 teaching. As the courses are now planned, any student registered 

 in the university may obtain more or less instruction of this sort. 



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