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Show SEVENTEEN GRADUATE FROM FARM SCHOOL Pennsylvania Agricultural College Students Given Positions. Special to The Tribune. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 22. The sixteenth six-teenth annual graduation exercises of the National Farm school took place at the Farm Bchool, Bucks county. Pa., tonight Seventeen students received diplomas. One graduate received a post-graduate certificate for one additional year in farm management. The exercises were presided over by Dr. Joseph Krauskopf. the president and founder of the school. Addresses were made by Senator Clarence Ruekman of Ianghorne, Pa., Judge Henry N. Weasels Wea-sels of the common pleas court of Philadelphia Phila-delphia and Jerome J. Rothschild of Philadelphia. Phila-delphia. Every one of the seventeen who graduated gradu-ated has already secured a position upon which he will enier Immediately. The fact that these young: men have secured the positions so far in advance of their graduation is especially significant, and shows how great is the demand for trained agriculturists of ihe type educated at the National Farm school. The object of the National Farm school is to take some of the surplus populations popula-tions of the large cities and transplant them to t be farm. It therefore takes poor but worthy lads, between the ages of IB and 20, and gives them a three -year course in practical and scientific agriculture, agricul-ture, free of all cost to them. During the past year, owing to the high cost of rood stuffs, clothing and other necessities, necessi-ties, the school has been able to accommodate accommo-date only seventy-five students. Plans for a new domestic hall, to take care of an additional luO students, for whirh $75,000 was recently given by the family of the late Morris Lasker of Galveston, Gal-veston, Tex-, in his memory, are being pushed forward, and it Is the hope of the board of directors of the school that the building will be completed In time for the admission of the new class In March, 1918. |