Science (a) Domestic (about £2 2s.); board may be had near the Institute at prices ranging from $5 to $8 (about £1 to £1 12s. 6d.) a week. A students' boarding-house has been organised in connection with the department, the inclusive terms being $5 (£1) a week, board only $3.50 (14s.); the accommodation, however, is limited, and the long waiting list shows how inadequate it is to the demand. In the kitchen washing-dresses are not required, white blouses and black skirts with the usual apron, sleeves, and cap being the selected costume. The demand for the normal students on graduation is at present larger than can be met; the training received having a very high character throughout the United States. The normal practice work is obtained by means of classes for guilds, church schools, children's Saturday classes, etc., held in various quarters of the city. In addition to the Normal courses in cookery, ten alternative courses are offered in this and other subjects connected with the household; each course occupies one term and is complete in itself. Of these, three are confined to general cookery; they are consecutive and must be taken up in regular order. The First Course consists of instruction in the composition and dietetic value of food materials. The lessons are arranged in logical order, and each principle is illustrated by the preparation of simple dishes. The teaching is largely individual, each student preparing an entire dish; the object of the course is the preparation of food in the most digestible and appetising forms. In the Second Course instruction and practice are given in the preparation of more complicated dishes and menus than are included in the first course. The Third Course includes the preparation of still more elaborate and expensive dishes; lessons in marketing and carving; and practical demonstration in the cutting of meat. In each course one lesson of three hours is given weekly. The course in Invalid Cookery is intended for professional nurses and other persons desirous of acquiring a practical knowledge of cookery suitable for the sick room. It extends throughout one term, with one lesson of two and a-half hours each week. Similar classes are arranged for medical students either in the afternoon or evening to suit their convenience. The Housekeepers' course is offered in the belief that greater skill and intelligence are needed in the management of the home, and for the purpose of providing thorough training for women who possess the requisite qualifications to fit themselves for positions as housekeepers or as matrons of public institutions. It is analogous to that on Food Economics at the Pratt Institute, and occupies a year. It includes the general courses in cookery, courses in invalid and lunch-room cookery; a course for waitresses; laundry work; marketing; lectures on physiology and hygiene; home nursing; familiar talks on food materials and other matters relating to the household together with a study of business forms and accounts. At present the number who attend it is very limited; applicants must be twenty-five years of age and must give evidence of a good education. Courses are also organised in Home Nursing, Laundry work and for Waitresses (six lessons of two hours each); there is a good fecture course on Home Construction, as well as children's Saturday classes and evening classes in General Cookery; there is also a Chafing-dish" course for men'; all are open to the public; occasionally boys are included among the Waitress course students. The syllabus of the first course in the Evening Cooking Classes is included in Appendix B (p. 312), also one in Household Science ; they will be seen closely to resemble those employed for corresponding classes in this country. One lesson a week is usual in the above courses for one or two sessions; the fees charged vary from twelve shillings to £1. 5s. All materials in the cookery classes are provided by the Institute. Good reports are given of the attendance at the greater number of these numerous classes. The General Course of Instruction in Dressmaking consists of (6) Domestic Art Courses. four grades, each occupying one term or half the academic year; (General, two lessons of two hours each being given weekly. All materials Normal,' must be furnished by the students, except those supplied in the Technical). third and fourth grades for order work, when, for further practice, students are allowed to receive and execute orders. All work cut and planned in the class room must be finished at home. Instruction is also provided in accounts, business forms, and correspondence, two lessons of one hour each being given weekly during the second term. A course of lectures in the Chemistry of textiles, dyeing, and cleansing is given during the second term of each year. Throughout the Domestic Art Department, similar stress is laid upon the study of line, form, the proportions of the human figure, etc., as in the Pratt Institute; one and a-half hours a week must be devoted to such instruction and practice in the General, as well as the Technical and Normal dressmaking and millinery classes. The two terms begin in September and February respectively; students enter for one term at a time. The fees are £3 for the first grade, and £4 for each of the more advanced. The Technical courses in Sewing, Dressmaking, and Millinery are arranged to meet the need of those who desire to train as professionals. The dressmaking students are expected to attend lectures in physiology and in hygiene with reference to dress, in addition to those in the chemistry of textiles, dyeing and cleansing, no additional fee being required; they also have the privilege of physical training in the gymnasium without extra payment. They must be at least eighteen years of age on admission, have a good knowledge of hand and machine sewing, and must present for inspection a dress made personally from patterns. Applicants are admitted only in September in each year; certificates are granted to satisfactory students who have followed the entire course. The fees are $30 (£6) per term. In the evening classes instruction is given in hand and machine sewing, in the first, second, and third grades of the general course in dressmaking, and in millinery. The session extends through six months, from the beginning of With reference to the Normal Course in Domestic Art, see above' page 209. (e) Junior Courses in Household (a) Vassar October to the end of March; in each grade two lessons of two hours each are given weekly; the fees are 12s. 6d. for the first course, and from £1 to £1. 12s. 6d. for the more advanced. Brief mention must be made of the junior course in Domestic Science and Art which is a non-professional course of prescribed studies for girls; it covers two years, and is designed to supply that training for the duties and responsibilities of home life which the ordinary academic education fails to give, and also to lay a broad and solid foundation for the technical work involved in direct prepara tion for a profession or a skilled occupation. The course is based upon the recognition of the fact that training for the practical business of life should have its due place in the education of the individual during the plastic period of life, and experience is constantly showing the soundness of this position. Of the pupils who have thus far graduated, more than three-fourths have developed aptitudes for some domestic art or science; these have subsequently taken advanced courses in chemistry, physiology and hygiene, domestic science, millinery, or dressmaking, with a view in each case to following the pursuit as a profession. "As a result of this preparatory training in a well-arranged and soundly-correlated course of study, these pupils have the advantage of entering upon the pursuit of their technical courses with good habits of thought and study, and with the ability to feel an intelligent delight in their work." The course is divided broadly into scientific work, academic work, and technical work-about one-third of the time being given to each of these branches. The complete list of studies is as follows:-language and literature, general history, civics, current events, mathematics, elementary chemistry, physiology and hygiene, domestic science and arts (including household economics), cookery (practical instruction in the school kitchen, talks on foods), sewing, millinery; the planning, decoration, and furnishing of a house; business customs and accounts; drawing and physical training. E-WOMEN'S COLLEGES. A course in physiology and hygiene is given at Vassar College Hygiene and for Women by Professor Thalberg, which is obligatory for all freshmen during their first term. It comprises lectures, recitations, and practical investigation of the principles of house sanitation; drawings and models are provided for this study. An elective course is also offered in advanced hygiene, which is open to juniors and seniors; this comprises, in addition to text-book work, the microscopic study of tissues, experiments in physiological chemistry and frequent dissections. Certain courses in biology are recommended as a good introduction to these advanced courses. In chemistry, the analysis of food is open to those who have studied quantitative analysis and organic chemistry; while in the department of economics and sociology Professor Mills, in his course on Charities and Corrections, treats of the physical and physiological, as well as of other causes of abnormality. A course in the Elements of Hygiene, conducted by Miss E. B. (b) Wellesley Sherrard, resident health officer, is also required of all freshmen College. at Wellesley College for Women, and counts towards the degree of B.A. Miss Hazard, the President, believes that this course provides for health in the present and in the future by awakening and helping to educate a "physical conscience." The part of the subject presented is concerned chiefly with the proper care of the body. The course is designed to give a practical knowledge of its structure and an understanding of some of the chief causes which lead to deterioration of health and to needless loss of life. A useful outline is also given of the general principles of public hygiene. The courses in zoology and animal physiology afford opportunity for further study to any specially interested student. Instruction in domestic science, including the theory of diet and cookery, was given for some time; the resignation of the instructor, on her appointment to work in another college, brought this to a close. Since then occasional lectures on this subject have been given, and have invariably been received with much interest, but no regular course has been organised. In the other colleges for women--Bryn Mawr and Smith, for instance-attention is devoted to physical culture, and a general supervision is exercised over the health of the girls; though Wellesley College is still the exception in the excellent work carried on by its resident health officers. These medical women endeavour perseveringly to train students to judicious care of themselves, chiefly by the adoption of a set of commonsense rules for healthful living. The results to their well-being, physical and mental, are first-rate. Considerable interest has been aroused at Boston, and indeed (c) Simmons over a much wider area, by the founding and endowment of the Female College, Simmons Female College, several million dollars having been Boston. bequeathed for the purpose by the late John Simmons. The college is established as an institution in which the instruction given is such as will best enable women to earn an independent livelihood. The trustees believe that the purpose and plan will interest and attract students who desire to fit themselves to become superintendents or matrons of institutions, heads of college houses, or of social settlements, private secretaries, librarians, and teachers of household arts and sciences. Provision will be made. for those who desire to prepare themselves for the study of medicine and nursing, and for others who wish to become more proficient in a calling already adopted, or who need to add general training to practical skill. Thus, college graduates who wish to secure technical or professional training will have special opportunities for doing so, while encouragement will be given to that large class of women interested in educational problems, who feel not only that constructive work should accompany academic studies, but that no woman is well educated until she is thoroughly prepared to obtain an independent livelihood, whether choice or necessity may demand such self-maintenance. The plan of instruction (c) Simmons provides for three classes of students. It offers a complete course Female College, of four years for such students as are able to give the requisite time for the college training, while shorter technical courses are to be provided for those who have had adequate preliminary preparation elsewhere, whether in college, or normal school, or in practical life. Properly qualified students will also be received for a partial course. There are to be Saturday and evening classes for students unable to attend the regular classes, with regard to which detailed announcements are not yet published. The following courses in the departments of Household Economics, Secretarial work, Library training, and Science will be begun in the year 1902-3. The Corporation expects to open the department of Applied Art in the year 1903-4, and other departments in subsequent years. A. Household Economics. 1. Regular course of four years in preparation for professional housekeeping and for teaching. 2. Advanced course of one or more years for college graduates and others of sufficient training. 3. Elementary course of one year. 4. Special or partial courses. B. Secretarial Courses. 1. Regular course of four years preparing for professional positions and for teaching. 2. Advanced course of one or more years for college graduates. 3. Special or partial courses. C. Library Courses. 1. Regular course of four years. 2. Special or partial courses. D. Scientific Courses. 1. Collegiate course of four years in preparation for science teaching. 2. Advanced course of one or more years for students with previous college or normal school training. 3. Course of four years in preparation for the study of medicine. 4. Courses of one, two, or three years in preparation for admission to training schools for nurses. 5. Special or partial courses. The regular course in Household Economics is designed for women who wish to prepare themselves for taking charge of institutions or social settlements, or for teaching the subjects of household arts and sciences. Students preparing to teach will be expected to take the theory and practice of teaching in their last year. Four years will be required for the course, unless students have had a satisfactory preparation subsequent to their High school training, such as two years in college study, a course in a Normal school, or sufficient experience in teaching, in which cases they may be admitted directly to the advanced course. The Elementary course is offered for those who desire to understand the principles underlying elementary Household Economics or to become proficient in the management of the home. The following tentative programme indicates the number of periods a week allotted to each subject in this elementary course; the labo |