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Hirsch Agricultural School. The success of many of the 

 graduates of the institution, their attainments in practical 

 agriculture and in the profession of agriculture bear 

 testimony to Professor Sabsovich's clearness of vision 

 and justified his faith and his devotion to the cause of 

 agricultural education. 



In later years the Trustees of the Baron de Hirsch 

 Fund found it necessary to remove the agricultural school 

 from Woodbine. They were guided principally by the 

 wish to locate their school nearer to New York City, 

 where most of the students came from and where a num- 

 ber of the active Trustees lived. There were also other 

 reasons which to them seemed sufficient for building a 

 new school plant in the vicinity of New York City. 

 Meanwhile, the World War came to disturb the normal 

 activities in the United States and the young men who 

 would ordinarily have become students at the school 

 were called to military service. The plan of the Trus- 

 tees to develop a new school plant was, therefore, never 

 carried out. 



It is doubtful whether, under conditions as they exist 

 today, there would be justification for making a large 

 investment in the school in order that it might be made 

 to function again. The vocational agricultural schools 

 which have come into being within recent years make the 

 reopening of the Baron de Hirsch Agricultural School 

 unnecessary. It may be said, therefore, that Professor 

 Sabsovich has established an institution which rendered 

 an important service at a time when other institutions of 

 a like nature were not available. He fulfilled a great pub- 

 lic need. He laid the foundation of character ; he taught 

 many young men the power of ideals and of devoted 

 service. Having for many years unselfishly labored for 

 the cause, having been faithful to his trust, having built 



