Home Economics Research

Frances Seeds, a graduate student in Textiles and Clothing, who is now teaching at Hood College, Frederick, Maryland, is completing the work on her thesis in absentia, and hopes to have her Master\u27s degree conferred at the end of this quarter

Grape Juice and Milk for School Children

Interest in the problem of supplementary feeding of school children, and in the previous experimental work done to determine the value of various foods, such as oranges, figs and milk, f.or this purpose, led Zorada Titus, M. S. in foods and nutrition, July 1927, to conduct a study of the effect of the supplementary feeding of grape juice, and of milk, on the rate of growth of children, for her master\u27s thesis

Preparation for Nutrition Research

Special Problems, F & N 359, will be offered for the first time,in the fall quarter, to undergraduate home economics students who are classified as seniors, according to Dr. Rossleen M. Arnold, director of research in Foods and Nutrition

Home Economics Vocational Education

Every Home Economics teacher who is teaching clothing construction work with seventh grade girls is confronted with several questions regarding the problem of basting. Should students be taught to baste from the beginning of their construction work? Should they be taught to baste on all construction processes? If there are certain construction processes in the making of which they should use basting, what are these processes

Home Economics Research at Iowa State

Enrollment in graduate work in the Home Economics Vocational Education Department has shown a decided increase during the recent summer sessions over that of any previous summers. During the first session 41 students were enrolled, while in 1926 the enrollment for that session was 25. The second session this year totalled an enrollment of 21, and in 1926 there were only 8 students during the second session

The Maples

Sheltered among fine, graceful maple trees, with the tapering outline of evergreen pines against the southeast horizon, The Maples is set apart from the hurry of campus shielding life, the memories of yesterdays that live within its walls still, and adding a feeling of peace and quiet

Home Economics Research at Iowa State

Electricity in now available to 15,- 000,000 homes in the United States, says Miss Zula M. Dowler in a thesis A Study of the Operation Cost of an Electric- Oven prepared at Iowa State College. Electricity is expensive, but an attempt to reduce the cost by adopting more efficient methods may make it more widely used

Home Economics Research at Iowa State

Lucile Magruder, a graduate student in the Vocation Education Department, carried out a problem on the study of factors which seem to influence high school girls for or against the election of home economics courses

The Iowa Homemaker vol.7, no.3

Table of Contents American Home Economics Association Convention, page 1 Common Sense in Buying Equipment by Margaret Davidson, page 2 Is Training in Homemaking Essential for a Good Homemaker?, page 3 Home Economics Research at Iowa State, page 4 “Cracker Rat” – “Milk Rat” by Melba Nisewanger, page 5 The Role of Home and Parents by Dr. Grace S. M. Zorbaugh, page 5 Busy Mother, Read This! by Frances Thomas, page 5 4-H Page, page 6 4-H Page, page 7 Looking Forward by Regina J. Friant, page 8 Iowa State Home Economics Association Page, page 9 Preparation for Nutrition Research by Melba Nisewanger, page 10 Who’s There and Where by Cleo Fitzsimmons, page 1