Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1880 [PAGE 35]

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33 the mother as much as the father, the woman as well as the man. We discard the old and absurd notion that education is a necessity to man, but only an ornament to woman. If ignorance is a weakness and a disaster in the places of business, where the income is won, it is equally so in the places of living, where the income is expended. If science can aid agriculture and the mechanic arts to use more successfully nature's forces, and to increase the amount and value of their products, it can equally aid the housekeeper in the- finer and more complicated use of those forces and agencies, in the home where winter is to be changed into genial summer by artificial fires, and darkness into day by costly illumination; where the raw products of the field are to be transformed into sweet and wholesome food by a chemistry finer than that of soils, and the products of a hundred manufactories are to be put to their final uses for the health and happiness of life. The purpose is to provide a full course of instruction in the arts of the household, and the sciences relating thereto. No industry is more important to human happiness and well-being than that which makes the home. This industry involves principles of science, as many and as profound as those which control any other human employment.

SPECIAL STUDIES.

The special studies of this course, which requires the usual four four years of college work, are as follows: Food and Diatetics, two terms; Domestic Hygiene; Household ./Esthetics; Household Science; Domestic Economy; Usages of Society; Home Architecture; Landscape Gardening.

HEALTH AND PHYSICAL TRAINING.

A spacious Gymnasium for young women has been fitted up in the Library wing, and instruction in calisthenics is given to two or more classes daily. Lectures on health, and its conditions, and on other important topics, will be delivered to these classes, at suitable intervals, and great pains will be taken to secure, to the utmost possible extent, physical vigor, robust health, and a graceful carriage, and to prepare young women to take enlightened care of their own health, and the health of others under their charge.

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