Pennsylvania School of Horticulture for Women - Wise Acres Yearbook (Ambler, PA)

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piar Courses LIEUTENANTS’ COURSES VEGETABLE GARDENING 12 weeks Mondays 10—12.30 April 8 to Pune 24 Mondays 2 — 4.30 April 8 to June 24 The morning course deals with Principles and Practices of Vegetable Gardening such as sowing, planting, cultivating the crop, planning and preparing the ground, the use of tools, etc. The afternoon course deals with Culture of specific crops—Potatoes, Onions, Root Crops, and all principal vegetables. FRUIT GROWING 12 weeks Fridays 10—12.30 April 12 to June 28 The aim of this course is to prepare lieutenants to insure the production of our staple fruit supply. This course deals with the planting, pruning and training, spraying, harvesting and routine culture of fruit. CANNING AND PRESERVING 12 weeks Fridays 2—+ P. M. April 12 to June 28 Latest up-to-date methods of conserving Vegetables and Fruits by Drying, Canning and Preserving. POULTRY 12 weeks Fridays 2—4 P. M. April 12 to June 28 General Course in Poultry Rearing with special attention to War rations for fowls. CAPTAINS COURSE Mondays to Fridays inclusive 12 weeks April 8 to June 28 This course includes the War Courses in Vegetable Gardening, Fruit Grownig, Canning and Preserving and Poultry; also lectures and practical work in Floriculture and a Practical Business Course, most essential in the management of a unit. FEES FOR WAR COURSES LIEUTENANTS’ COURSE 12 weeks—half day each week $10.00 12 weeks—whole day each week 17.50 CAPTAINS’ COURSE 12 weeks—5 days each week 65.00 Board and lodging at school weekly (Accommodations limited) 10.00 Board and lodging in neighborhood, prices and addresses on application. A deposit of $5.00 is required for registration. This will be credited on payment of fees. No fees transferable. The courses under the auspices of the Drexel Institute will cover practically the same ground in a more or less concentrated form. Write to the School of Horticulture for information. 15

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suitor, whose lovely figure was a joy to behold! The heroine was most artistic in her portrayal of emotion and her wonderful range of expression was truly marvelous. Most dainty and bounteous refreshments were served; and a jolly Virginia Reel was a gay finishing of a most enjoyable party. The Hallowe’en Party was an event long to be remembered, but our Valentine Party was unsurpassed. We all truly thank the Faculty for the jolly good times and the good feeling they engender among us MEETING THE EMERGENCY. Last spring when the appeal was sent out over the country for increased food production and conservation, and the need became a vital one, the School of Horticulture responded heartily to the call. From the Director down through the ranks to the youngest student, there was a unanimous desire that the school should rise to the emergency of the occasion and prove itself of value in a time of national need. And the school did rise most nobly to meet the need. Special War Courses were organized, many short course students were enrolled, and to meet the demand for instruction in Canning and Preserving, a program of extension work was adopted. And now another spring approaches, and plans are being made for carrying on the work along broader lines; for the emergency has proved itself one which cannot be overcome in the space of a single season. It will not lessen but grow graver as the days go on, and it must be met again with a spirit of earnest endeavor and a deeper realization of its demands. The school this year, in addition to the War Courses given at Ambler on Mondays, is to organize a course in Horticulture at the Drexel Institute for the students in the Household Arts Department. Also in connection with the Drexel Institue a course in Vegetable Gardening will be given at the old Drexel Homestead in Philadelphia, on Saturdays. This will be open to teachers and business women of the city and it is hoped will reach many persons who would not otherwise be able to have the benefit of the first mentioned course. Several other tentative plans are under consideration at present and it is hoped that through the hearty co-operation of all those connected with the school, the coming year may be one of far-reaching importance. 14 L. C.

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Speaking of exams reminds me of that dreaded week at the School of Horticulture. Queer, isn’t it, how such trials affect one? The strongest of the crew shake as if with palsy, and the faint hearted quietly pass away. You see, at the school the exam schedule was given out a few weeks ahead. Upper and lower classmen scanned feverishly the page that sealed their doom. Here and there loud ejaculations from the terrorized mob gave evidence that the week-end previous to the time appointed was to be spent in hard, thoughtful, earnest boning, that there might be no necessity for late hours during those harassing five days. Three-thirty Saturday afternoon found the students, who previously started home to spend Sunday and Monday with fond parents, huddled in a miserable heap with the regular “stop overs, bewailing the swift approach of their last day on earth. Only seven-thirty Saturday evening and so quiet? You could hear a pin drop and the old clock ticked patiently on in the awful stillness. What, had the dormitory been deserted ? Ah, no! A peep into the different rooms showed every wretched beggar of the bunch sleeping that sweet dreamless sleep from which one wakes to find she can conquer any task set before her. Could it be possible that these were members of the heretofore-mentioned fear-stricken student body? Weird, what things can happen to a person under these strenuous mental strains. Sunday, a truly perfect day, found many absentees from church on account of the coming week, busily engaged in cleaning up already spotless room. Fly specks that had never been, appeared in enormous numbers on mirror and woodwork, a tremendous task for a lone soul to tackle, but a few minutes’ notice, with plenty of elbow grease, found things beautiful, entire, and clean. Stockings that had awaited the darn of their owner’s hands for weeks, became so vain after receiving countless patches that they fell head over heels into the whole stocking bag. Endless pairs of shabby boots became models of perfection as a result of their zealous wearer’s efforts. Sunday afternoon you could hear the resounding echo of the tick, tock of the faithful old sitting room timepiece, a thing unheard of before this date. In the various rooms of students the atmosphere was such that it coaxed the occupant to stretch herself comfortably upon her bed and cuddle snugly in her steamer rug and with lecture notes in hand, fall fast asleep to dream of better, wiser, things. Monday dawned a glorious day and enticed each and every hoary headed sage to enjoy its refreshing breezes and its beautiful coloring in the form of a long walk. Monday evening, what a change. Conscience-stricken mortals raced through page after page of notes and not until the wee small hours did their cozy nests claim them. 16