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Title: Catalogue of the Hampton Normal & Agricultural Institute, at Hampton, Virginia, for the academical year ..
Year: 1869 (1860s)
Authors: Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute
Subjects: Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute
Publisher: Hampton : Institute Steam Press
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Modeling with spokeshave. 32. Scrap-ing. 33. Beveling with spokeshave. 34. Oblique planing. Course in Sewing!— % Two periods a week to each class.Junior Class.The object of the work is to give to each pupil a thor-ough knowledge of the stitches used in plain sewing, viz.--basting, running, overcasting, back-stitching, overhand-ing, hemming, felling, blind-stitching, cross-stitching, gath-ering and stroking gathers, and machine-stitching. Eachstudent makes for herself a book containing samples of thedifferent kinds of work, and keeps a note book in which shesets down the verbal instruction given.Middle Class.Continuation of the work of the Junior year. Eachstudent cuts and makes for herself a full set of under-clothes. Senior Class.Students are given talks on colors and materials used,and taught to draft and cut from patterns. Each studentcuts and makes for herself a dress. Cooking : — Three and a half months. Four hours a week.This course is given to the girls of the Middle Class
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48 CATALOGUE OF and the aim is to teaeh them the principles underlying goodcooking, and to give them the simple, practical knowledgeneeded in their home life in the South. Course of Instruction. Making and care of fires, dish washing and care ofkitchen, talk on fuels and foods. Baking apples, potatoes,etc., boiling vegetables and eggs, steaming. Lessons inbuying meat. Cooking of meats, warmed over dishes,soups, broiling and stewing. Simple and invalid cooking.Biscuits and cookies, bread, plain cake, plain pastry. Cook-ing of poultry, fish, and eggs. Tea, coffee, cocoa. Setting table. . These lessons are accompanied by instruction in the.chemistry of cooking so far as it applied in the practicalwork. Laundry Work. The course is intended to give to every young womanin the school a practical knowledge of laundry work that willbe of service to her in her own home or elsewhere. Course of Instruction. The work for the year will cover the following:— The uses and abuses of chemicals in a l

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