oe) 
reading even the most beautifully illustrated book, and thus to 
help lay the foundations for a more effective educative process in 
the classroom of the school. 
Incidentally, it may be noted that in 1932 teachers brought more 
than 41,000 pupils from schools located in all five boroughs of 
Greater New York City. No pains are spared to make these 
visits as profitable, educationally, as possible. Of the personnel 
budget required for this work approximately 40 per cent. was 
provided from the private funds of the Garden, and 60 per cent. 
from the annual Tax Budget appropriation. 
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RESEARCH DURING 1932 
A former Secretary of War, Newton D. Baker, in a recent 
magazine article, raises the question, “as to whether the social 
return for the expenditures necessary to make college education 
available justifies the cost’’; but he continues: “ Nobody has any 
doubt that the extension of knowledge by men with pioneering 
minds justifies any outlay necessary to produce and equip fruitful 
research scholars.” 
This statement is a truism in educational and scientific circles. 
It is quoted here because it not only states the attitude of the 
Brooklyn Botanic Garden from its beginning, but reflects what 
has come to be the general attitude of the more intelligent portion 
of the public. This is in contrast to the condition some thirty 
years ago when the attitude was largely one of indifference, if not 
of positive opposition.t Perhaps the Great War did more than 
any other single influence to bring about a general realization of 
the practical value of scientific research in relation to the problems 
of daily living. Now there is wide recognition of the importance 
of research primarily for, the purpose of extending the boundaries 
of knowledge and liberalizing the mind. The research program 
at the Botanic Garden has both theoretical and applied aspects. 
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1 The late Dr. William A. Henry eee November 24, 1932), in the 
880’s, secured from the legislature of Wisconsin the first definite state 
appropriation for research at the State ae ersity—for investigations on the 
ensilage of fodders and the manufacture of cane-sugar from sorghum cane. 
“Henry later delighted in telling ae one of the legislative leaders leaned 
across the aisle when the appropriation was under discussion, and remz page 
to his boon companion, ‘ Let’s kill this pup before it gets to be a dog 
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