Show STUDENT LIFE 1G The Engineering Society lias not organized season ll yet but will do so as soon as the foot-ba- is over The Sophomores are making a topographic survey of the grounds east of the college and will map them this winter One of their chief amusements berore starting on this work was tc pull up the stakes along the Senior’s canal before they had cross-section- ed it They did not bother the Seniors much for Nebeker would step off 3179 steps from the last station and stop with his right heel on the place where the stake liad been Domestic Science In September Miss Abbe L Marlatt opened the department of Domestic Arts in the Agricultural College of Utah The only room available was one 24 by 21 in the southeast corner of the basement of the main building which was partitioned into a dining room kitchen and pantry There were only one 1890 year even though there are three rooms used There have been several instructors since the first year As the attendance increased Miss Marlatt found it impossible to have direct charge of both sewing and cooking so Miss Ada Little later Mrs E J MacEwan was given the superintendency of the work She was succeeded by Miss Sarah Bowen who resigned to be married after having successful!' conducted the department for five years Iler sister MrsJthoda Cook is now instructor and the department owes its growth to her untiring effort in making it popular as well as beneficial The work done is most beautiful as the cabinet of finished articles shows Two assistants are kept busy several hours each day Several courses are given as a matter of accommodation to young ladies who can not remain at school to complete the regular course With the exception of the special work in household management the four year course is parallel with the General Science Course and leads to the degree of Bachelor of Science For completing the Three Year Course or the Manual Training Course a certificate is given There is also a short Winter Course designed to give special training to housekeepers Among the interesting features of the department is the fact that as many as four hundred people have been entertained at luncheon the meal being prepared and served by the The Constitutional Convention students numbering two hundred and fifty the State Legislature three hundred the guests at the Commencement banquet one hundred have at different times been entertained most hundred and forty-fou- r students in attendance and of these a very small portion were girls most of whom took cooking With little assistance small room and poor equipment Miss Marlatt for two years carried on the work successfully and often served special dinners to large parties The sewing was also under her supervision In 1893 an addition was built to the College five rooms of which in the basement were equipped for use by this department At the end of this school year Miss Marlatt resigned to accept a position as professor of Domestic satisfactorily Science in Providence U I and Mrs Dalinda Cotey was engaged to till the vacancy in this Agricultural Institution The department lias grown are Where the medals for which the stock rapidly under the efficient management of Mrs judging class comjieted at the State Fair Cotey and that the work is being appreciated Methods of reclaiming and utilizing the is evident from tlie fact that numerous requests waste lands of the State will occupy the atare received at the College for young women tention of tlie class during the next two weeks who are qualified to give instruction in Domestic Science and Art Four graduates from the There are 40 students registered in Agriculdepartment are now engaged in teaching ture an increase of about twenty-fiv- e over last Domestic Science and many homes have been year Among these are members of every class benefited by the instruction received by the in school young ladies taking the work at the College Tlie class in agronomy is doing elementary The training is both scientific and practical on soils and plant growth Some of the work and meets the needs of every day living There possibilities of Utah agriculture are being disis such a demand for the work that several assistants have been engaged to take charge of cussed and the students were surprised recently to find that only one per cent of the cultivarious branches while new classes are conutilized is stantly being organized and additional work vable land at present taken up Tlie animal industry classes were left withThe sewing department too is crowded this out an instructor liecause of Prof Linfield’s i |