THE UNIVERSITY AND WOMEN’S WORK 77 
life; there is use for it in the management and administration 
of public charities and other institutions and occupations 
relating especially to women and children, and there is use for 
it in the teaching world. In this connexion I should like to . 
draw attention to the very interesting changes and develop- 
ments that are taking place in girls’ secondary schools. On 
every side these schools are providing special courses of work 
relating to household affairs, usually following, but sometimes 
accompanying, the ordinary school course; and there is, I am 
happy to say, an ever-increasing desire to make the science 
teaching in girls’ schools bear more particularly on the things 
and phenomena of the household. From my own observations, 
and from the letters that I am continually receiving, I am sure 
there is a real dearth of teachers who have reasonable famili- 
arity with that borderland knowledge which lies between the 
formal sciences and the practical arts of the household—just 
that part of knowledge in fact which we include in our new 
scheme. I do not doubt therefore that many of our pupils 
will become teachers of a true domestic science, that they will 
co-operate in an effective way with the teachers of the domestic 
arts, and that they will help to raise the position of these 
home training classes in secondary schools, so that they may 
not be regarded as a sort of despised feminine modern-side, 
destined primarily for those who are deficient in brains or 
industry. 
The establishment of courses of instruction in home science 
and household economics in connexion with universities is no 
new thing. America has not failed to include this among its 
abundant educational enterprises, and in far Japan we have 
a women’s university which I believe, from all I have read and 
learned, might teach us many a useful lesson. We shall do 
well to study what has been done elsewhere, but I am not 
desirous that we should merely imitate. Transplanted schemes 
often perish like exotics, and it is better for us to let our schemes 
