Show GREEK BOYS STUDY OUR FARM METHODS American School in Athens Athen Reports More Pupils Pupil Athens The The ba the land k to-theland to movement move move- ment In n Greece under way since 1022 1922 when 1 refugees refugee were ere received Into the mother country after lifter the exchange ex ex- exchange change of population with Turkey hn has Leon boon so 80 much accelerated by the de- de llon and restrictive Immigration throughout the world that the American Amerl Ameri cnn can farm form school located on OD an aD arm of f bay facing Mount Ol has li this year an aD over overcapacity total of ot 21 Greek boys bOYI studying American dry farming f and aDd Industrial methods This J Is a Jump from pupils last year and 1 Is I. more than thIn the total of alumni In in the schools school's two thirty years of life There hue have been beeD several Jewish students accepted from the flood of ot applicants who are preparing themselves them them- selves for farming In the Holy Land IlInd More Yore than fish from Louisiana which have an appetite for mosquito eggs hue have been distributed this WI year lear In the worst wont malarial districts dis dl of Greece by hI Charles L L. House ithe principal of the school and son of It lu Its year old founder Dr Ur John Henry Hear House Some came am from the Rockefeller Institute at t Rome the ancestors of others crowed the Atlantic earlier cradled In JD the arms of the messenger whenever whenever when when- ever Ter there was a heavy heur sea In la order that the water In their bowl might not be agitated more more than their native swamps Thirty Acres Acrea of Land Added Thirty acres of land at Verria the billies nerM mentioned In the wanderings wanderings wan wan- of ot Paul have hue been added this year to the schools school's acres This land was as once the bottom of Lake Ama Amo tavo which has hns been dried for the Greek Grek government by the foundation compo company ny now v at nt work on land drainage drainage drain drain- age In the Macedonian swamplands All but one olle of the herd of Jerseys which supplied the first bottles of the only certified milk In Greece have had to be sold Hold however during the year because of t their Infection with tuberculosis a disease which afflicts almost 05 95 per cent Int of ot the Greek cow cows COWl About quarter one of ot the schools school's Income income In in- come Is II received from the United States In the form torm of gifts Besides suffering the expected depreciation of the times the sum lum hat has decreased with the fall of the dollar on OD European exchanges exchanges ex ex- ex changes accentuated In Greece by a arile arise arise rise rile on nn the part of the drachma The school has haa an ao Ingenious budget under which Its American Income Inome Is II spent almost wholly within the school The salaries of the faculty go ro as far as possible to buy bUl things produced by the school Pool W Water t r Used Ud Twice Another ADother way the school which Is modeled somewhat on heron Keren college In Kentucky and aDd the Hampton Institute In ID Virginia has lately learned to save Is In the double use of ot water from the foot 2 swimming pool which the boys boy I built with given by hy Mrs John II II Finley The pool was built at this cost from rock hewn In the mountain fool foothills hills behind the school and the water precious In a 1 country of Inch ID-Inch rainfall waters fields below the p pool ol through halt hall section pi pipes pIS pI'S that are made at the school for tor 10 30 cents a yard On the way from one use to another the water pauses to sport at a little fountain to which the boys hoys have brought ferns fern and other plants from train such shrines of ancient Greece as Delphi Delphi Del Del- phi and Athens An Armenian sculptor Is making a abronze abronze bronze bust bUilt of ot Doctor House lIo wh who first came camp to the as 88 a missionary In 1872 and who negotiated with Bui- Bui garlan garian bandits for the ransom of ot Ellen EllenM M M. Stone when that American woman missionary's capture caused an on International international Inter inter- national sensation Doctor House who Is the oldest living graduate of ot Western West est estern ern rn Reserve now loaves leaves ad od- of the school wholly to his son BOn Charles Charlls I I. I House Douse a Princeton engineer who has lived almost all his life In the Balkans |