. Adventures in idealism; a personal record of the life of Professor Sabsovich. so beneficialthat it was decided to build a large barn on Farm , the upper story of which was to be used as a lectureroom. But while in course of construction the plan ofthe upper hall was changed, and built so as to makeit available for school purposes. This was the firsthome of the Baron de Hirsch Agricultural School. During the preparatory period of the school (Marchto October, 1894) forty-two pupils were Woodbine farmers sent their sons, and so didAlliance, Carmel, Rosenheim—the neighboring
. Adventures in idealism; a personal record of the life of Professor Sabsovich. so beneficialthat it was decided to build a large barn on Farm , the upper story of which was to be used as a lectureroom. But while in course of construction the plan ofthe upper hall was changed, and built so as to makeit available for school purposes. This was the firsthome of the Baron de Hirsch Agricultural School. During the preparatory period of the school (Marchto October, 1894) forty-two pupils were Woodbine farmers sent their sons, and so didAlliance, Carmel, Rosenheim—the neighboring SouthJersey colonies—and Jewish farmers all over the coun-try. The first students could not receive a systematiccourse of lectures, as the school was not yet fullyorganized, but they were given practical instruction inthe planting, grafting and care of fruit trees and inthe growing of garden truck and field crops. Mean-while the Model Farm did much to advance the knowl-edge of the farmers in general, to whom the country,soil and climate conditions were unknown when they. BRINGING SCIENCE TO FARMERS 115 came from their ghettos—whether in the cities of theold world or New York or Philadelphia. It may be interesting to mention here, as an exampleof my husbands care for the individual students aswell as the general welfare of all collectively, the caseof two young boys, the sons of Woodbine were unusually bright and intelligent and herealized that all they needed was a chance. He sawin them good teachers and future farm-inspectors, whowould be all the more useful because they spoke thelanguage of the Jewish farmers. He did not purposeto keep them waiting until the Agricultural Schoolshould grow up to their needs. He devised, therefore,a plan for their training and the Fund gave him per-mission to carry it out. Shortly after peace had been made with the farmers,he called the two boys in one day, and asked themwhether they would like to go to college. It was, ineff
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