10 May. 1918.] 



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A study of the scholar- 

 ship and conduct of the 

 students of the Uni- 

 versity Farm School, 

 covering two years, 

 showed that the best 

 students are those who 

 have regularly gradu- 

 ated from a high school. 

 The next best are those 

 who Ixave reached the 

 age of eighteen without 

 having been in a high 

 school; while the least 

 proficient in scholarship 

 and most lacking in 

 manly conduct are the 

 students who have left 

 the high school without 

 completing the course. 



(3) The third reason 

 for the present procedure 

 is the well-grounded be- 

 lief that the important 

 educational task in 

 America to-day is to pro- 

 vide suitable training for 

 the young men who have 

 reached college age with- 

 out having college re- 

 quirements for entrance. 



The University School 

 is designed for the young 

 man who has dropped 

 out of the public school 

 at some earlier period of 

 life, but who, at the age 

 of nineteen to twenty- 

 two, discovers that he 

 desires a training in ag- 

 riculture. 



While the primary 

 purpose has been to 

 reach the farm boy who 

 has reached eighteen or 

 over, and who, through 

 no fault of his own, has 

 failed to obtain a high 

 school education, the 

 facts are that the ma- 

 jority of men at the 



