cookery, 10; plain sewing, 4; laundry, 3; foods, 1; sanitation, 1; home nursing, 1; care of the house, 3; English, 2; elective, 4.

Alpha Chapter of Omicron Nu. During the past year, the Chapter has made an attempt at the standardization of Home Economics in the high schools throughout Michigan. This problem seemed to us an especially interesting and important one, for, if a standard course of study could be worked out and introduced into high schools of the state, students would enter college on a uniform basis, with their abilities neither over nor under-estimated.

With this in mind, a comparison was made of the high school courses offered in cities and towns of various sizes, thereby laying a foundation upon which we have planned to carry out our work for the coming year.

The following is a list of our national officers for the coming year.

President, Miss Georgia L. White, Dean of Home Economics, Michigan Agricultural College.

Vice-President, Gladys Robinson, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana.

Secretary, Emily Castle, Michigan Agricultural College.

Treasurer, Mabel Moore, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois.

The work of Beta Chapter of Omicron Nu during the past year was of necessity along financial lines. We began the year with a debt that seemed quite an incumbency to the five active members. After an appeal to the Alumnae, who responded very generously, we had a side show at the annual House Economics party, which this year took the form of a circus. The net proceeds did much to swell our bank account. Still more was needed and so we made and sold doughnuts-forty-five dozen. By these means we were able to raise our debt, and to send a delegate to the National Conclave held at Ames, Iowa. Desiring a clean slate for next year's work, we sought to put ourselves on a

firm financial basis. This we did by introducing State College Seals. Of the order of 25,000 we have sold enough to cover the initial cost, and to start next year's bank account. This was accomplished during the last week of college. It is the plan to make the seals a steady source of income to the chapter.

With our Senior and Junior accessions we had a total membership of fifteen at the close of the college year.

We aim to come in close contact with the Freshmen of our department by giving them a tea early every fall. We keep in touch with our Alumnae by issuing yearly bulletins of our work. We ask them to give us from their experience what they consider we can do to prepare ourselves better for the problems we are sure to meet after leaving college, and how to prepare ourselves better in college for leadership afterwards. From their letters we plan to make a series of programs for our year's work.

The Ely Club for Students. The Ely Club for students, established in New York City and conducted by the Alumnae of the Misses Ely School of Greenwich, Conn., though independent in its organization and management, provides a home for young women, who are either studying with a view to self-support or who are in their first year of professional work.

The object of the Club is to give to young students of limited means, from out of town, the protection and the privileges of a clean and comfortable home such as can not be had at the usual commercial boarding houses within their means. It is also intended to provide an opportunity for the stimulation of earnest endeavor, enhanced by community interest, and an appreciation of the dignity of labor.

The Club House accommodates twentytwo resident members. The dining room is open to non-resident members.

The University of Wisconsin has, for 1916-17, offered its first fellowship in Home Economics. The fellow this year is Miss

Brenda Sutherland of Melbourne, Australia, who did her undergraduate work and received her Master of Science degree at the University of Melbourne. Since then she has done teaching and recently has taken her Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Toronto, majoring in Home Economics. This fellowship is open to graduate students who have majored in Home Economics, and the applications should be in the hands of the Registrar of the University of Wisconsin by March 1 each year, since the appointment is made in March or April.

Peace Prize Contest. The American School Peace League offers two sets of prizes, to be known as the Seabury Prizes for the best essays on one of the following subjects:

1. What Education Can Do Toward the Maintenance of Permanent Peace. Open to seniors in normal schools.

2. The Influence of the United States in the Adoption of a Plan for Permanent Peace. Open to seniors in secondary schools.

Three prizes of seventy-five, fifty and twenty-five dollars will be given for the best essays in both sets.

Information concerning literature on the subject, and details in regard to the conditions of the contest may be obtained from the Secretary of the League, Mrs. Fannie Fern Andrews, 405 Marlborough Street, Boston, Mass.

Brief Notes. Miss Grace Schermerhorn, for three years associate professor of education and in charge of the practice teaching in Home Economics at Iowa State College, has resigned to accept the position of supervisor in the schools of Long Beach, California.

Miss Cora B. Miller who has been in charge of the public school work in Home Economics in Fort Dodge, Iowa, has resigned to accept a position as instructor in critic teaching, Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa.

Miss Mary Louise Tuttle, during the past year Director of the Social Work Department of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union, Boston, Mass., is now Director of the School of Home Economics in the Russell Sage College of Practical Arts, Troy, N. Y.

Two college instructors who have lately resigned from their positions are Miss Jessie P. Rich, in charge of extension work at the University of Texas, now Mrs. B. L. Ames, Montgomery, Ala., and Miss Luella Scovill of the University of Wisconsin, now Mrs. E. L. Harrison, Lexington, Ky. Both of these women have agreed to help this year in the work of the Association and the JOURNAL.