THE EXHIBITION


Introduction
Biography
Botany
Horticulture
NY State College of Agriculture
Cornell University
Nature Study
Education of Women
   To the Farmer’s Wife
   1903 Reading-Course
   Letter to M. Van Rensselaer
   Staff of Farmers’ Institute
   Alumni Yearbook
   Home Economics Department
   Lesson for the Farm Home
Commission on Country Life
Hortorium
Photography
Writings
Travel


THE EDUCATION OF WOMEN

My attitude, therefore, is that home-making subjects are just as essential a part of a college of agriculture as any other subject whatever, and that we cannot expect to make much progress in the redirecting of country life until these subjects are as well developed as the technical agricultural subjects.

In 1908 the newly formed Commission on Country Life, chaired by Liberty Hyde Bailey, visited the College of Agriculture. Bailey wrote to Martha Van Rensselaer to prepare her for the visit and to ensure that the Commission witnessed the work being done in the Department of Home Economics.


Letter to Martha Van Rensselaer from Liberty Hyde Bailey, November 27, 1908.

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