The Penn's Grove record., 1914-05-22
The Opportunity The State Gives.

examination for state scholarships in
Rutgers College. In connection with
the College the State of New Jersey has
a Scientific School and experimental
farm where is taught all branches of
agriculture by mel with the latest sci
entiic methods. Every youth who has
learned thoroughly the classical Oh scien-
tific high school course can pass this
examination. The best sixty in the
State will get free tuition. which is paid
by the State thereby saving the parents
$I60 a year. In a four year college
course the saving will be $640.
The State is now having erected up
Oh the State farm at the edge of New
Brunswick a large building which will
cost more than $I00, 900, i'll which are
recitation rooms and a lecture hall for
the instruction of men and women in
tour year course in agriculture and also
a short winter course of three months.
The Eastern States have long held to
the old academic cultural lines of edu-
cation to qualify men to become preach
els, lawyers and doctors, while the
Western States are far ahead of the
Eastern people in the progress of educa-
ton on scientific lines i'll agriculture.
New Jersey is situated most fayOrably
between the two largest cities in the
Union and has thousands of acres OF
unimproved land. The citizens of New
Jersey should be the most enlightened
to have the best information to till
the soil and get the best results;
also TO have men with trained minds for
industrial pursuits with a broad culture
education which goes with advanced
civilization.
Rutgers College is one of the Oldest in
the United States. While the attend
ance has not been large, a high scholas
tic record has been maintained, equal
to larger universities. The attendance
has greatly increased i'll recent years
since the S ate has made it the center
of scientific i%ntruction. About half a
million dollars of endowments have been
received wi hin a year. A new dormi-
ty is being erected at the expense of
several thousand dollars. MIS-. Ballen.
time, il Newark the widow of the man
who some years ago gave a gymnasium
which cost several thousand dollars, has
donated $25, 600 for a new swimming
pool, which is to rival the III at Yale
College. The College cooperation has
within a year bought an entire unoccu-
pied block of land i'll New Brunswick
for future Developments of the College
During the present school year so,
students attended the Colleges. Tn e
short agricultural course was studio
last winter by 206 and the first 8 ummer
school last July and August was attend
ed by 3I4. A teacher from Penns Grov
WIZ dOUOAOON OLuOA ouulIuCI oCuOOl s
pronounced the instruction received
there more efficient than that at Cape
May, the University of Pennsylvania or
at Columbia University.
The State is spending hundreds of
thousands of dollars OH the Scientific
School connected with Rutgers College.
1t is the peoples money and spent for
their benefit. 1t is for the parents to
be lOyal to their State Institution, where
their money is spent, with their patron.
age by sending their boys there to learn
whatever is desired i'll a scientific, agri-
cultural or literary cultural lire. Every
citizen in the State gets this education
cheaper individually, because of the
large expenditures by the State.
The U. S. Government also appropri.
ates money to Rutgers for instruction
in military tactics, so there will be an
educated citizen soldiery in case of war.
The discipline given under a U. S. Army
officer lnstills the need of proper physi-
cal department, ~neatness in person,
obedience to authority and duty to the
State.
Why not take advantages to save your
individual purse by patronizing Rutgers,
which will be the leading educational
institution in the State Of New Jersey
in future yearsp