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ScuHoot SERVICE 
During the first half of the year Miss Rusk carried on the work 
of supplying study material to the high schools, junior high schools, 
and colleges. She was able to do this in addition to her other 
work, because of assistance from the Emergency Work Bureau. 
The work has grown so that without such assistance it could not 
go on. Therefore, after consultation with officials of the Board 
of Education, it was decided to make a small charge for materials 
supplied to the schools, since the latter received an allowance from 
us sort. A price list of materials 
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the City for expenditures of t 
was prepared and sent to all the schools when they opened in early 
September. 
Miss Julia Ik. Best, formerly Assistant in Connecticut College, 
came to the Garden to take over this part of the work, with the title 
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of “School Service Assistant.” The table given herewith pre- 
sents some of the data for this service during the past three years. 
An interesting point shown 1s that with this new departure the 
1931 1932 1933 
Total no. of requests for the year vo... ee. ee eee 387 398 421 
Total no. of requests for January—August ....... 209 215 238 
Total no. of requests for September—December .. 178 183 183 
No. of petri dishes filled during year ........... 5482 5727 4888 
No. of petri dishes filled January—June ......... 2873 3664 42065 
No. of petri dishes filled September—December .. 2609 2063 623 
number of requests for material in 1933 actually increased. 
The decrease in number of petri dishes results partly from a 
complete loss of requests from certain schools, and partly from a 
reduction in number of petri dishes per school. The schools which 
no longer ask for petri dishes include 8 high schools, + of which 
are known to be preparing their own, 9 junior high schools, and 
ol. We are very glad of the relief thus afforded 
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this department, our object being to meet school neec 
wise provided for. 
ApuLt CLASSES AND COURSES 
New Courses—The popularity of the new course in “* Flower 
Arrangement” (A23), given in January, 1933, and sponsored by 
the Woman’s Auxiliary, was attested by the large enrollment—108 
