“Dear me,” I said, “you must be kept very busy. And is Social Endeavour all that you are going to do?”
“No,” she answered, “I’m electing a half-course in Nature Work as well.”
“Nature Work? Well! Well! That, I suppose, means cramming up a lot of biology and zoology, does it not?”
“No,” said the girl, “it’s not exactly done with books. I believe it is all done by Field Work.”
“Field Work?”
“Yes, Field Work four times a week and an Excursion every Saturday.”
“And what do you do in the Field Work?”
“The girls,” she answered, “go out in groups anywhere out of doors, and make a Nature Study of anything they see.”
“How do they do that?” I asked.
“Why, they look at it. Suppose, for example, they come to a stream or a pond or anything”
“Yes”
“Well, they look at it.”
“Had they never done that before?” I asked.
“Ah, but they look at it as a Nature Unit. Each girl must take forty units in the course. I think we only do one unit each day we go out.”
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