. Ohio University bulletin. Undergraduate catalog, 1911-1912. for cooking and sew-ing. In 1889, The Lake Placid Conference of Home Eco-nomics devoted its attention mainly to the selection of asuitable name to the group of subjects taught under suchvarious titles. At that time Home Economics was agreedupon as a general descriptive term to cover this instructionin schools and colleges. Some years later the matter wasagain discussed and this suggestion made,—That thegroup of subjects now variously taught under the nameof domestic science and the like should be known as handwork in the elementary
. Ohio University bulletin. Undergraduate catalog, 1911-1912. for cooking and sew-ing. In 1889, The Lake Placid Conference of Home Eco-nomics devoted its attention mainly to the selection of asuitable name to the group of subjects taught under suchvarious titles. At that time Home Economics was agreedupon as a general descriptive term to cover this instructionin schools and colleges. Some years later the matter wasagain discussed and this suggestion made,—That thegroup of subjects now variously taught under the nameof domestic science and the like should be known as handwork in the elementary schools; domestic science in the high(34) Ohio University Bulletin 35 schools; economics in normal schools and colleges; andeuthenics in university and clul> work. It was considered then that the adoption of this sug-gestion would assist not only in making clear the meaningof some of the names, but also in defining the differentgrades of work. The word euthenics means right livingand this is what home economics aims directly and specific-allv to The Living Room. Domestic Science Department. The teaching of home economics is spreading countless schools and colleges throughout the East,West and South, household econom\- is made a regularbranch of instruction. The establishment of these depart-ments has been brought about by a demand throughoutthe country for trained women to cope with the problemsof everyday life and for trained teachers to instruct girls 36 Ohio University Bulletin in sul^jects that will fit them for their future work in life,thus bringing about better social and economic is the special teacher trained in this work who canreach the girl who may never be able to secure a highschool education to sa} nothing of a normal or universityand through her influence shape the home. The liork of the School—At this point the ciuestionmay arise, why do we deem it necessary that these sub-jects be made a part of our school and college cur
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