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is to reply to the view that incapacity and 

 old age are suggestive of charity and not 

 of the advancement of the teaching pro- 

 fession. As one who is interested in the 

 causes which the foundation was instituted 

 to promote, I can not look with equanimity 

 upon the curtailment of the influence of 

 the foundation as now proposed, and I am 

 willing to risk the confusion of personal 

 interest with a disinterested view of the 

 benefit to the teaching profession in order 

 that the question may be seen as a whole 

 and not decided abruptly by mere tem- 

 porary expediency. 



Two obligations seem to rest upon the 

 foundation in order to reinstate its influ- 

 ence and to justify its mission. In an 

 unequivocal and equally in a generous 

 manner it must meet the obligations which 

 its announcements have aroused in the 

 minds of those who within a few years will 

 be in a position to take advantage of its 

 formulated provisions; and in the second 

 place, to reinstate confidence in its meth- 

 ods, there should be a plain statement to 

 the effect that the financial difficulty is or 

 is not the determining cause of the present 

 action. If such prove to be the case, let 

 the arguments against a system be held in 

 reserve, and let the actual situation be met 

 in that same helpful spirit which has char- 

 acterized so many of its important and 

 beneficial decisions. 



Joseph Jastrow 



Columbia University, 

 March 2, 1910 



Alsl AMERICAN BE8EAR0H INSTITUTION IN 

 PALESTINE. THE JEWISH AORICVL- 

 TVRAL EXPERIMENT STATION 

 AT HAIFA 

 A NEW American institute of research has 

 just been incorporated in New York under 

 the title of the " Jewish Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station," with a board of trustees com- 

 posed of Mr. Jul. Eosenwald (Chicago), presi- 

 dent, Mr. Paul M. Warburg (New York), 



treasurer, Miss Henrietta Szold (New York), 

 secretary and Dr. Cyrus Adler (Philadelphia), 

 Mr. Sam S. Pels (Philadelphia), Judge Jul. 

 "W. Mack (Chicago), Dr. J. L. Magnes, Mr. 

 Louis Marshall, Dr. Morris Loeb, Mr. J. B. 

 Greenhut (New York) and Dr. O. Warburg 

 (Berlin, Germany), members of the board. 



This new experiment station is to be located 

 at the foot of Mt. Carmel in Palestine, seven 

 miles from Haifa, and is the first agricultural 

 institution of research supported by private 

 American capital to be established in a for- 

 eign country. The funds for the station have 

 been furnished by several philanthropic Jews. 

 Messrs. Jacob H. Schiff, of New York and 

 Jul. Eosenwald, of Chicago, have furnished 

 the first $20,000 necessary for the initial 

 equipment. The minimum budget of $10,000 

 a year has been assured by Messrs. SchifE and 

 Eosenwald, together with Mr. Paul M. War- 

 burg (of Kiihn, Loeb & Co.), Mr. Is. N. Selig- 

 man, Mr. Isidor Straus and others. 



As an American institution in the Levant 

 and carrying the American experiment station 

 idea abroad, this newly incorporated institu- 

 ton can not fail to interest American experi- 

 ment station workers, since its purposes are 

 the scientific study and development of the 

 agricultural resources of one of the oldest 

 parts of the old world, as rich in latent 

 wealth as it is in historical and religious in- 

 terest. 



The director of this new station, Mr. Aaron 

 Aaronsohn, is already known to quite a circle 

 of experiment station workers, having spent a 

 number of months in making comparative 

 studies of the agricultural, climatic and bo- 

 tanical conditions of our southwestern coun- 

 try, for the purpose of comparing them with 

 present conditions in Palestine, in which 

 studies he has been deeply impressed with the 

 remarkably close agricultural resemblance 

 existing between California and Palestine. 

 Mr. Aaronsohn is peculiarly well equipped to 

 establish such an institution in Palestine, 

 having spent fourteen years of his life in 

 agricultural and botanical explorations 

 throughout that region and having made 

 himself familiar with Turkish, Arabic and 



