University of Delaware - Blue Hen Yearbook (Newark, DE)

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School of DEAN IRMA AYERS The School of Home Economics offers a unique opportunity to combine a general education with a professional major in a field where women are in great demand. Through its curriculum, the School strives to de- velop the abilities and attitudes that will function in the intellectual, social and professional life of the individual. To achieve these aims, approximately one-half of the required courses are selected from the fields other than Home Economics and there is opportunity through electives to pursue areas of special interest, The major field of study is selected from the follow- ing areas of specialization: Child Development for a profession of teaching in nursery schools and child care centers; work with excep- tional children, hospital recreation; social work and counseling. Foods and Nutrition as preparation for dietetics, research, institution food service or development and pro- motion of food products in business. Home Economics Education for those desiring to teach in the public schools. Textiles and Clothing for positions in merchandising, textile testing, fashion promotion or research. General Home Economics for a broad professional preparation and a selected area of study. The School of Home Economics offers the challenge to college women to assimilate learning from the humani- ties, the arts, and the basic sciences, and to apply these learnings in Home Economics requires intelligence of a high order. 24 Alison Hall

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DEAN GEORGE WORRILOW School of 0f all occupations from which gain is secured, there is none better than agriculture: nothing more productive; nothing more worthy of free man . . . Cicero, 106-43 B.C. Nineteen hundred vears after Cicero made his pro- found observation with respect to the profession of agriculture, the Morrill Act, signed by President Lincoln in 1862, created landgrant colleges . . . to offer an opportunity in every State for a liberal and larger education to those needing a higher education for the world's business and industrial pursuits and the professions of life. Cicero's philosophy and the expressed purpose of the Morrill Act form the foundation for the School of Agricul- ture's programs. The School has the mandatory functions of resident instruction, agricultural research, and agri- cultural-home economics extension. So then, teaching fundamental principles, expanding scientific knowledge, and channeling the henefits of research to the public are the three essential responsibilities of the School to the citizens of the State. The scope of these programs involves deeply the biological, physical and social sciences, The biological sciences furnish insight into the life and life processes of plants and animals. A knowledge of the physical sciences and mathematics enables one to more intelligently comprehend the composition and functioning of the complex world around us. An understanding of the social sciences means the understanding of people as social beings, and the cultural, economic, social and psychological kinship among and between peoples. In short, the fundamental purpose of the School of Agriculture is to carry on an educational and research effort which will provide the scientific know-how so necessary to solving the diverse problems of modern-day agriculture, the one enterprise essential to man's existence.