For November, I'Hl 



787 



COLLEGE; WORKSHOP OR PLAY- 

 GROUND? 



Preiidcnt Charles A, Richmond ui Un- 

 ion College is distinctly right in his state- 

 ment that the college should he a work- 

 shop, and that the young man who begins 

 his career on the campus should not ex- 

 pect an easier time than one who takes a 

 job in a factory or in an office. "The idea 

 that in coming to college a boy is post- 

 poning his life work for four years while 

 ne tloats down tne stream of time un- 

 troubled by the hard realities that other 

 young men of his age have to face is not 

 at all our idea of what a college means, ' 

 he says. "Neither is a college a kind of 

 intellectual incubator where young fledg- 

 lings are hatclied out with no effort of 

 their own." 



The problem which faces the universi- 

 ties is to make their undergraduates re- 

 alize that their work is not only a prepara- 

 tion for life but life itself; that the study 

 of mathematics or Greek or history, that 

 the difficulties they overcome, that what 

 they accomplish is just as vital to them as 

 will be their life "out in the world." 

 Every instructor knows how hard it is to 

 convince the student that lectures and 

 classes and examinations are not a mere 

 round of calisthenic exercises. 



President Richmond does a distinct serv- 

 ice, then, in pointing out that the college 

 must be a beehive of industry. As he says, 

 the picture of a college where the long 

 hours were passed agreeably under the 

 shade of the classic elms smoking pipes 

 and singing college songs has a certai.i 

 attraction to the retrospective imagination 

 of the graduate, but the entering fresh- 

 man must realize that there lie before 

 him years of hard, earnest endeavor, that 

 he is not preparing for life but is partici- 

 pating in it, that he has entered a work- 

 shop, not a playground. — New York Sun. 



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Sealed bids were invited for the sale of 

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 ed Seeds, Inc., they having taken possession 

 October 19th. The Seedsmen of .\merica 

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 & Co. is to be carried on by another old- 

 established and reliable firm, whose exist- 

 ence reaches back for 85 years. 



"Grant Thorburn," founder of the Seed 

 House of J. M. Thorburn of New York, 

 was born in 1773 in Dalkeith, Scotland, and 

 early came to New York to seek his for- 

 tune. He was engaged for a time in the 

 manufacture of wrought nails, but later 

 established himself in a small store in Nas- 

 sau St., where he sold Tapes, Ribbons, 

 Thimhles, Thread, Scissors, etc. Through 

 the sale of these, he occasionally had in- 

 quiries from Ladies for plants and flowers, 

 and it was through this continual demand 

 that he, in 180S, began wdiat wa.s then the 

 first seed store in New York. His trade 

 grew, so that in 1806 he was obliged to 

 issue a catalog containing seeds and 

 plants. The publishing of this catalog 

 led to more pretentious writings and the 

 "Gardener's Calendar" was the outcome, the 

 first edition being published in 1818. 



"Grant Thorburn" was a prolific writer 

 for the Current Press on a variety of topics 

 under the noiii dc plume of "Laurie Plod." 

 "Grant Thorburn" left a most interesting 

 autobiography, which was published in Xew 

 York in 1852. He died at New Haven, 

 Conn., January 21st, 1863, at the age of 

 ninety. 



James Carter & Co., the founder of Car- 



ter's Tested Seeds, Inc., began business 85 

 years ago. He was the first seedman to 

 guarantee the germination of seeds. This 

 practice is still in operation but has the ad- 

 vantage of the much improved scientific 

 and up-to-date methods now in use. 



STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, M.^N- 

 .\GEMENT, CIRCULATION, ETC.. required by 

 the Act of Congress of August 24. 1912, of 

 "Gardeners' Chronicle of America," published 

 monthlj' at New York, N. Y., for October I, 1921. 

 State of New York ) 

 County of New York J ^^• 



Before me, a notary public in and for the State 

 and' county aforespid. personally appeared M. C. 

 Ebel, who, having been duly sworn according to 

 law, deposes and says that he is the editor of the 

 "Gardeners' Chronicle of America" and that the 

 fcllowing is to the best of his knowledge and be- 

 lief a true statement of the ownership, management 

 (and, if a daily paper, the circulation), etc., of the 

 aforesaid publication for the date shown in the 

 above caption, required by the Act of August 24, 

 1912. embodied in section 443, Postal Laws and 

 Regulations, printed on the reverse of this form, 

 to wit : 



1. That the names and addresses of the pub* 

 lisher, managing editor, and business manager are: 

 Publisher, The Chronicle Press, Inc., 286 Fifth 

 Ave., New Yi vk, N. Y. Editor, M. C. Ebel. 286 

 Fifth .\ve.. New York. Tilanaging Editor, M. C. 

 Ebel, 286 Fifth Ave.. New York. Business Man- 

 ager, M. C. Ebel, 286 Fifth .^ve., New York. 



2. That the owners are (give names and ad- 

 dresses of individual owners, or, if a corporation, 

 give its name and the names and addresses of 

 sl-^ckholders owning or holding 1 per cent, or more 

 of tile total amount of stock.) 



The Chronicle Press. Inc., 2S6 Fifth .Ave., New 

 York. N. Y. M. C. Ebel. Summit, N. T. M. E. 

 Burniston and T. A. Burniston, bf th of Summit, 

 N. T. S. Warendorff, 325 Fifth Ave., N. Y. 

 Chas. H. Tottv. .Madison. N. I. A. Bauer, Tuxedo 

 Park, N. Y. .T. Barnett, Sewickley, Pa. 



3. That the known bondholders, mortgagees, 

 and other security holders owning or holding 1 

 per cent, or more of total amount of bonds, mort- 

 gages, '^r other securities, are: (If there are nrne. 

 so state.) There are no bondholders, mortgagees 

 or other security holders. 



4. That the two paragraphs next above, giving 

 the names of the owners, stockholders, and se- 

 curity holders, if any. contain not rnly the owners, 

 stockholders and security holders as they appear 

 ujion the books of the company, but also, in cases 

 where the strckholder or security holder appears 

 upon the books of the company as trustee or in 

 any ether fiduciary relation, the name of the per- 

 son or corprration f r r whom such trustee is acting, 

 is given; also that the said two paragraphs conl.nin 

 statements embracing aidant's knowledge and belief 

 as to the circumstances and conditifius under whicli 

 stockholders and security holders who do not .ip- 

 pcar upon the books of the company as trustees, 

 held stock and securities in a capacity other than 

 that of a bona fide owner; and this affiant has no 

 reason to believe that any other persons, associa- 

 tion, or corporation has any interest, direct or in- 

 direct, in the said stock, bonds, or other securities, 

 than as so stated by him. 



.Sworn to and subscribed before me this 1st day 

 of October, 1921. M. C. EBEL. Editor. 



rSeall .TOIIN H. KALB. 



(My commission expires March 30. 1922.) 



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