The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1909-12-28
Houghton Department.
TELEPHONE SOUTH 10
MARQUETTE NORMAL SCHOOL
TO OPEN A NEW DEPARTMENT
Domestic Science Instruction Will be
Given Shortly After New Years
Plan is Ultimately TO Give
Complete Course.
TELEPHONE SOUTH ia

shortly after the first OF the new
year start will be- made with work i'm
new department. at the Northern
Normal one that In time will greatly
extend the usefulness of the institution
and broaden the training that IL offers,
says the Marquette Mining Journal
The appropriation for the Normal
made by the last legislature carried an
amount for a domestic science depart
ment The work OF preparing 10 open
this department. has been in progress
for the past several weeks and is now
50 well advanced that il is expected to
be finished about the middle OF next
month some time in February il is
expected 60 give the first manual train
ing instruction 10 pupils in the train
ing school and by the opening Of the
final term OF the regular Normal
school year. in April. II is expected
that the arrangement will have been
made TO open the new department To
an Normal students who desire TO take
advantage Of the opportunities il viii
afer.
The rooms that viii be occupied by
The department are located In the half
easement OF the south wing The kitch-
I'm dining room and pantries viii be
located in the space under the library
riCh has been used for gymnasium |
purposes. The sewing rooms will be |
located under the class rooms in the |
main building 10 which the library |
wing is attached The space avail |
able is being partitioned of into good /
sized rooms. well adapted for the pur-
pose for which they viii be used. The
Kitchen and dining room will be roomy
and well equipped.
Equipment Not Vet Housed.
Principal Kaye viii wait until the
arrival OF the Instructor who will have
charge Of the domestic science depart
ment before completing The arrange
ments FOR fitting it out The equip
ment win be selected carefully. as il is
planned 10 make the department one
I'm keeping with the other excellently
equipped departments OF the school |,
for it Is anticipated that ultimately it
will be highly popular with the student
body
1t is the plan to i'm time. probably /
next year. offer a course in domestic
science training that will entitle the h
der Of "a diploma from that depart
ment 10 take up the work professional {
~ in high schools and other institu-
tons. The planning OF such a course
viii require considerable work and ,
study 10 get the best arrangement. and /
Pr The beginning the domestic science ,
yrs v'll be elective with the stu
dent body and can be taken in con-
junction with work along other lines
There are as yet no definite plans '
FOR introducing manual training at the
Normal. as the Legislature has made 5
no appropriation covering this line Of I
work IL is expected that later on 2
however, the domestic science depart
nent viii be augmented by WELL /
manual training department. Y
Instructors 20 Return. .
For the next term, which begins Jan. .
, Miss Flora Hill. the head OF the +
English department at the Normal.
Who been absent for the past several
ronths will have charge Of her regu-
ar work. Miss Hill has been travel c
ng in France, England and Spain.
nd has done considerable studying in
0nnectlon with her subjects Mrs. Y
frances Kelsey, the head of the train p
ng school who has also been absent y
rom the city since early last summer d
vim likewise be back for the next term 81
{ the Normal She has been pursu- p
ng advanced work in her speciality at II
he University Of Columbia, in New a.
FORK 81