. Adventures in idealism; a personal record of the life of Professor Sabsovich. ns. The order of the school day was thus: The boyswould rise at 6:30, take a cold shower, dress and starttheir daily work. They were led about the farm, whichcovered 300 acres, absorbing from actual experienceknowledge of the cultivation of orchards, vineyardsand greenhouses, and of the care of live-stock. Then,at ten, the days toil was over, and the bell called allto bed and to rest. Students of both sexes were admitted to the Agri-cultural School. I remember the incident which ledto the opening of a department th
. Adventures in idealism; a personal record of the life of Professor Sabsovich. ns. The order of the school day was thus: The boyswould rise at 6:30, take a cold shower, dress and starttheir daily work. They were led about the farm, whichcovered 300 acres, absorbing from actual experienceknowledge of the cultivation of orchards, vineyardsand greenhouses, and of the care of live-stock. Then,at ten, the days toil was over, and the bell called allto bed and to rest. Students of both sexes were admitted to the Agri-cultural School. I remember the incident which ledto the opening of a department therein for girls. Oneafternoon a girl of fifteen, the daughter of one of thefarmers, came to see my husband to complain, withbitter tears, of her unhappy home. Her father, havinglost his wife, had married a new one, who was provingthe proverbial step-mother. What was the girl to do?Where was she to go ? My husband could not see hergo without helping her, and it occurred to him atonce: Why not give her a chance to study all branchesof housekeeping and some branches of farming?. AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL PIONEER 119 This was his precedent for opening a girls depart-ment in the Agricultural School. In the teacherscottage, occupied by the matron and her staff, the upperfloor was fitted up for the use of the girls. A coursein cooking, general housework, mending and sewingwas started, under the direction of our amiable andable matron, the late Mrs. Jennie Steinberg. Work inthe hothouse, courses in EngHsh, arithmetic and otherstudies in the schoolroom completed the curriculum ofthe fifteen girls who were found ready to enter thedepartment. In return for the instruction given themthey assisted Mrs. Steinberg in taking care of thedormitories and keeping house for the hundred ormore boys. With the high standards of accomplishment insistedupon by my husband in the school, only those teacherswere employed who were able and willing to carry onthe work in the right spirit. In answering an applicant
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