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As a fitting emphasis on just the sort of work which the Gar- 
den has been doing along gardening lines, I will quote from 
President Emeritus Eliot, of Harvard University, in an ad- 
dress on “ Defects in American Education Revealed by the War,” 
delivered before the League for Political Iducation, as printed 
in the New York Times of November 24, r918: “The war has 
also placed in a clear light the need all over the world of a more 
productive agriculture, and has shown how that need may be 
satished through giving instruction to children and adults in the 
means of increasing agricultural productiveness through the 
study of soils, seeds, food plants, domestic animals, and the best 
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means of cultivating and improving the soil. It follows that t 
teaching of agricultural science and art should be an important 
feature in the education of every child in both the urban and 
the rural population. Fortunately, the agricultural arts afford 
admirable means of training children and adults to accurate see- 
ing and recording and then to sound reasoning on the records 
made.” 
Another popular series of Garden lectures were the nine Win- 
the-War lectures given during April and May. The following 
were the subjects and lectures in this spring course: 
April 3 and April 7. Farming for Women. 
Miss Sophia de M. Carey, official lecturer of the British 
Government. 
Miss Elizabeth Cleveland and Mrs. Florence Young, Bed- 
ford Farmerettes and members of the Woman’s Land 
Army of America. 
April 14. The Back Yard Vegetable Garden. 
Miss Jean A. Cross, Assistant Curator of Elementary In- 
struction, 
April 21. Forest Products and the War. (Arbor Day Lec- 
ture. ) 
Prof. Samuel J. Record, School of Forestry, Yale Univer- 
sity. 
April 28. Diseases of Garden Crops and How to Control 
Them. ; 
Dr. Edgar W. Olive, Curator of Public Instruction. 
