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a week lectures on various subjects in agriculture. In 

 eight months the two were ready for the Rutgers Col- 

 lege entrance examinations, and, after attending for 

 four years, they both graduated with the highest 

 honors. To-day they are scientists, one of them being 

 of international reputation the greatest authority on 

 soil analysis Dr. Jacob G. Lipman. The establish- 

 ment of the Agricultural School and the scholarships 

 meant that the Fund stood ready to do as much for 

 any other promising pupil. 



The classes in the new Agricultural School went 

 ahead. The natural sciences subjects such as botany, 

 chemistry and physiology were taught by my hus- 

 band. Specialized branches of agriculture, such as 

 poultry raising, bee-keeping and dairying were taught 

 by Frederick Schmidt his assistant; while the general 

 subjects, including drawing, were supervised by an 

 alumnus, Jacob Kotinsky, of Rutgers College. Five 

 hours were devoted to school work, and not less than 

 five to farm work. Everything went well. The ex- 

 hibits of farm products and the results of the school 

 work at the county fair at the Court House, the Jewish 

 Fair in Philadelphia, and the National Poultry Fair 

 in Washington, D. G, furnished proof of the efficacy 

 of the instruction. 



The school, at this time, had more spirit than body. 

 There were, as yet, no dormitories, and the pupils 

 either lived with their parents or boarded in the fam- 

 ilies of the colonists. 



