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Show Home Economics Work To Be Emphasized. Practical Training in All Phases of Household Efficiency Arranged For. I'lnns laid for the coming school year nt the Dtah Agricultural College Col-lege which Opens September 10, provide pro-vide for unprecedented growth In the School of Home Kconomlcs. nceordlng to a statement Just Issued hy President Presi-dent Peterson. The students will be, first of all, trained for efficiency In the home. This does not mean that the girls will receive training only In the preparation and values of foods, or in the making of hats and clothes Important as these .subjects are, but that they will receive training In the whole problem ,,f household management. manage-ment. The many and Various problems prob-lems of child rearing will be developed. de-veloped. Including feeding and clothing the Infant, children's games, diseases of children, and Studies of child growth and development. The j economical feeding of the family will ; also receive attention and especial emphasis will he laid upon the conservation con-servation of foods. The Immediate I elimination of waste, a problem so t Important at this time, wdll be ! .stressed. All phases of household management manage-ment win be studied, including buy , lug food for small and large fatn-: fatn-: llles. preparation of food, household accounts, the home laundry, clothing the family; in short training in all the principles of family rearing. To make the above outlined work as practical as possible, It Is planned to establish a home economics practice house at the college. Here girls from the upper classes will live for specified spe-cified periods of time and perform all the duties of housekeepers under the direction of an experienced matron, Miss Alice ltav eiiblll, an expert In home economics of International repna tatlon, will come to the Institution next year as professor of home mimics. Miss Itaveuhill has possibly pos-sibly done more for the advancement of household science In Kngland, Camilla and the United States than any other woman living. Her 1 lea upon home economics subjects ami the care of children are considered au- thorntlve all over Europe mid America. In discussing her plans for the work next year at the Utah Agricultural College, Miss Kaveahill said: "For various quite good reasons the Rcope of Home Economics has become be-come unduly restricted to the three main divisions of food, clothing nnd shelter, with the result that the nature na-ture and possibilities of the Individual In the home, for whose benefit the study Is pursued, has been considerably consid-erably overlooked. The applications, therefore, of the knowledge acquired hy students have been Inadequate and imlnflueiitlal as appears from the pub-Uc pub-Uc health statistics and the continuance continu-ance of habits prejudicial to human i progress. 1 believe that t'. remedy lies In giving much more prominence to personal hygiene and the wide range ' of Influences affecting human development devel-opment at all ages throughout life, j and to closer co-ordinntlon of the subject matter of all the courses one with the other, in order clearly to Indicate In-dicate their connection and to more emphatically Insist upon their application applica-tion to the reformation of habits ami the more intelligent conduct of life In accordance with the knowledge now possessed of the necessary details. All my long teaching life I have I pioneered this method, and always With great ouraement ; I have been urging It through my recent lee-ture lee-ture trip, as First International I.ee- l turer on Household Economics to the colleges and universities of this country, coun-try, and everywhere have had my , views and suggestions most sympathetically sympathet-ically received." The school of Home Economics provides pro-vides many baccalaureate courses In the following departments: foods nnd dietetics, domestic art, home coo-BtructloU coo-BtructloU nnd sanitation, art and music. Vocational courses are offered i In the same departments. Hy close correlation between the technical courses offered In Art, Music, English and allied subjects, a well rounded education enn be se-cured, se-cured, The student secures, besides, the all Important facts of home ef- I flclency in Its broadest phases, the cultural training so necessary to fill out the life of the home. |