Evening journal., 1921-04-02

Miss Laura V. Clark. the head Of
the Department OF Home Economics
at the women's College. spoke OF
Home Economics as College
Course in chapel on Wednesday
morning. Miss Clark very empha-
tically rejected the definition that
home economies is the course which
teaches cooking and sewing. Miss
Clark went back over the history Of
education for women in this country
in order to show how home econo-
mics developed into a college course
the first schools were the dame
schools which taught manners and
dancing After the Revolutionary War
came the academies which were a
transition from the Latin grammar
schools to the present public high
school. In 1920 Emma II. willard
established school at Troy, New
York. where reading. english, arith-
metic and the art Of housekeeping
were taught. Katherine Beecher.
and Mary Lyons established schools
with similar courses. But women
were now being admitted TO be mem
tally equal 70 men and as a result
women studied the same courses in
college as mon. The difference be-
tween the two students was the fact
that men studied mathematics and
other technical subjects with a pur-
pose, the women took them because
they were in the college course.
Since seventy-five to eighty percent
OF women choose home making as
their life work and since home MAX
ing was no longer taught in the
home, women began TO feel the lack
In their education and the course in
home economies was given 20 MI
this need. The purposes OF home
economies are to give a good general
education, to teach the fundamentals
OF life. True culture means sym
pathetically taking part in real life
The movement for teaching home
economies is widespread. Not only
the United States but in such coun-
tries as New Zealand and Crimea,
home economics Is part Of the col
lege courses. The problems OF the
home should be every woman's first
thought, whether 1t be her own
homes problems or the problems Of
municipal housekeeping.
Miss Marian Hatfield, the adver-
tising manager Of the Blue and Gold,
told the Sophomores and Freshmen
OF the cooperative plan for getting
ads for the year book. The under
classmen are asked TO helf in getting
the ads and as n reward get ten per
cent OF the price OF the ad which
they may get Since personal in
fiuence counts much in the getting
OF Advertisements the juniors hope
that the underclassmen may bring
many ads to the year book.
on Thursday morning Miss Edith
Leonard '23 spoke of the life and
work OF John Burroughs The
eminent naturalist died early Tues
day morning. His last words were
How far are we from homer" He
win be buried on Sunday April third.
the day which no would have been
cighty-four years old. Emerson and
Whitman were the writer's who in
fluenced him most His first liter
airy effort was so like the work of
Emerson that some mistook it for
the work OF Emerson. After this
attempt the naturalist wrote in his
own way about things he knew.
His writings on nature became fam
GUS. His work was first objective.
but during his later life was sub
jective. His home "Slabsides" in the
Mountains OF New York was very
dear 20 him. Here he lived, loved
and wrote what appealed TO him.
He entertained distinguished visitors
in this rude retreat President and