76 THE UNIVERSITY AND WOMEN’S WORK 
schools I have been more and more impressed with the 
magnitude and importance of the more theoretical side of 
household administration, and especially with the undeveloped 
and unorganized state of the science that relates to it. It 
has, I confess, been a revelation to me to find how much 
there is in this direction that lies outside the interest or 
cognizance of the orthodox professor or teacher of science, 
how many unsolved problems there are relating to the 
most common things and operations of the household, and 
what a field lies open for interesting and exacting research. 
I am speaking only of the sciences with which I am most 
familiar, but if it is true that there is a special province of 
physics and chemistry associated with these matters, it is, 
I believe, not less true that there are special provinces in other 
branches of knowledge. 
A curriculum which shall include a more thorough study of 
these special subjects must necessarily differ in aim and 
character from those which have usually been given in the . 
schools of domestic economy. Inasmuch as it is more theo- 
retical it will be necessary to exact a higher standard of pre- 
liminary education, to extend the time of the course and to 
distribute the theoretical work among the best special teachers 
that can be secured. The work will indeed not be satisfactory 
unless it is centred in institutions where it will have the aid of 
many contributory studies, and where it will lead to the 
prosecution of vivifying research. So far as the practical side 
of the household arts is concerned, some sacrifice must be 
made. The project is surely such as may well come within 
the province of a university. It certainly demands the highest 
intellectual resources that we can obtain; it is in no degree 
inferior in substance or in aim to any other university work. 
The pupils we turn out will, I am confident, find abundant 
opportunity for the use of their knowledge. There is use for 
it—ample use for it—as I have said, in the privacy of home 
