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such centers as Washington, New York, Chicago, Roches- 

 ter, Philadelphia, Cleveland and Cincinnati. It was 

 hard, exhausting work, especially as for nine months I 

 suffered with severe attacks of malaria brought with me 

 from India. But, the thought of the need of the India 

 that I loved, to which God had called me, gave me a 

 strength beyond my own. 



I was graduated B. Sc. in Agriculture in June, 1911, 

 and returned to India in October, 1911, with thirty thou- 

 sand dollars of real money given by friends who believed 

 in this form of evangel. With the thirty thousand dol- 

 lars given by friends in America, two hundred and 

 seventy-five acres of land in one solid block were pur- 

 chased for about eleven thousand dollars. In order to 

 secure this land for an agricultural college it was neces- 

 sary to appeal to the government to put the Land Ac- 

 quisition Act into force. This it was kind enough to 

 do to secure the land, but the Mission paid for it. The 

 old Jumna Mission compound, which has been in posses- 

 sion of the Mission since before the mutiny, contains the 

 Ewing Christian College and the boys' high school. It 

 occupies a beautiful site on the north bank of the Jumna 

 river, having about one-third of a mile of river frontage. 

 The Jumna river at Allahabad varies in width from a 

 half mile during the cold season to about a mile during 

 the rains. The college campus goes right up to the two 

 story bridge which carries the main line of the East In- 

 dian Railway on the upper story with a cart track 

 underneath the railway. Across the bridge and imme- 

 diately opposite the college campus is the Mission farm. 

 This gives a most desirable and beautiful location for a 

 college campus and agricultural institution. The land 

 selected for the farm was rough, and very badly eroded 



