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school children have received those leaflets which are especially 

 adapted to their needs. Two thousand five hundred young farmers 

 are enrolled in the Agricultural Reading Course. These are assisted 

 from time to time by means of printed circulars which give directions 

 and assistance to the farmer in carrying on his studies at home. From 

 time to time question papers are sent out for the purpose of giving 

 opportunity to the farmer to make known his needs, that they may be 

 more fully understood and met. The location of Nature-study centers 

 is shown in figure 1 74. 



Mr. A. C. True, Director of Office of Experiment Stations, Wash- 

 ington, D. C, suggested that the members of the instructing corps of 

 the University give a course of lectures on Agriculture in the schools 

 of Ithaca with the view of determining whether such instruction could 

 be fitted into the present curriculum without adding seriously to the 

 work already required. The Superintendent of the city schools and 

 the Superior of the parochial school entered into the scheme most 

 heartily. Their opinion of this work is set forth in the following 

 communications : 



Board of Education. 



Roger B. Williams, President, 



H. W. Foster, Superintendetit of Schools. 



Office— 32. 33, Savings Bank Building. 



Ithaca, N. Y., January 28, 1898. 



Prof. I. P. Roberts, 



Dear Sir : — On behalf of the A room of the Grammar School, I 



wish to thank you and the professors whom you sent for the lectures 



and demonstrations which were given before the pupils of that room 



during the past term. I was present but very little myself, but the 



teacher reports a very great interest on the part of the pupils. Every 



one of the lectures was used as a basis for composition work. It 



seemed to us that the EngHsh work resulting was unusually good and 



that there was a decided improvement, a part of which at least we 



attributed to the very great interest of the pupils and their desire to 



give expression from a mind full of the subject. It appears to me 



that full and free use of language must necessarily arise from an 



abundance of thought pressing for expression. A full flowing stream 



implies an overflowing reservoir. 



