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Graduate studies at the pres-tisiims Research Institute of Agricultural Economics in Moscow led to his obtaining a doctorate in 1936. He embarked on a successful career in aericultural economics, serving as senior research associate at the Institute of Economics of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and as a member of the editorial board of the journal Problems of Economics.She then taught at the institute, in the Woman's Laboratory (1876-1884), and after 1884, as an instructor in the field of sanitary chemistry. She applied chemistry to living conditions, especially to sanitary science, broadened the field of science for women, and helped to develop the home economics movement. A conference which she organized in 1899 led to the founding in 1908 of the American Home Economics Association, of which she was the first president. RICHARDS, Herbert Maule, American botanist, brother of Theodore William Richards (q.v.) : b. Germantown, Pa., 6 Oct. 1871. He was educated at Harvard and Leipzig, and later traveled in Java, Japan, China, Straits Settlements and the Malay Archipelago. After occupying different positions at Harvard, Rad-cliffe, Columbia and Barnard he became professor of botany at Barnard in 1906. He specialized in plant physiology. Died 9 Jan. 1928.
SAINT SCHOLASTICA, College of, sant sko-las'ti-ka, a Roman Catholic liberal arts college for women, in Duluth, Minn., under the auspices of the Benedictine Sisters. Students of all faiths are admitted. Located on a 160-acre campus, the college buildings include a library with 41,000 volumes; a cottage for home-management practice for seniors majoring in home economics; and Rockhurst Auditorium, with a seating capacity of 1,000.
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