Identifier: bulletinofuniver19univ_0 (find matches)
Title: Bulletin of the University of Rhode Island : catalog number
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: University of Rhode Island Rhode Island State College Rhode Island College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts
Subjects: University of Rhode Island
Publisher: Kingston, R.I. : University of Rhode Island
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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rtant a part. In the various bills presented to Congress in behalf of national aidfor such forms of education, these paragraphs appear: Our most important and racial institution—the home—can bedeveloped along with other institutions only as we give to it thediscoveries of science and build it up through education. It is notenough that America has homes averaging better than homes ofother parts of the world; they should be very much better. Every city and town should offer opportunity to girls to gain aknowledge of the production and preparation of food and clothing,of lighting, heating, water supply, and sanitation, of household careand decoration, such as would mean a distinctly higher standard forour homes.7 There is the greatest fear that such schools be thought below thestandard of our classical schools, and until we dare to take the standthat it is all a question of relative values, and that Latin and math-ematics have not as much educational value for certain girls as house-
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COLLEGE CATALOGUE. 21 hold science and art have, these schools will probably not performthe greatest service of which they are capable. When we are wideawake to the fact that the solution of our domestic difficulties isdependent on a greater knowledge of production and its wise direc-tion, perhaps we shall be ready to say that learning to do thingsand learning to understand the reason for doing things will have asgreat a cultural value as the study of Homer and solving originalproblems in geometry. It is to meet the demands for such practical education that thehome economics department has been established here. It is soplanned as to give both men and women a general view of the house-hold in society, and to provide such training as will lead to morehealthy, happy, intelligent and economical administration of thehome as a social unit. It is also designed to aid in fitting such studentsas desire to enter special fields of domestic activity in institutionaland educational lines of work.

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