Excerpt from The Gleaner, 1936, Vol. 41

Great courage was needed by one already overburdened with other duties, to hazard such eu-untried venture, an undertaking decreed by many as impracticable. In' the beginning, administrative problems were difficult, educational standards crude, financial backing meager and student enroll ment limited. Hence his associates depended upon his zeal and optimism to keep the doors of the school open. Compare this struggling institution of 1897 with its small enrollment, faculty and acreage, to the outstanding school of today, a credit to the energy and devotion of its founder. The extent of its future development, becomes the responsibility of present and oncoming generations. They must not fail.

The purpose of The National Farm School is more than educative. It is not limited to the teaching of youth, it is their home, year in and out, where intellectual, physical and ethical training are stressed, to the end that they who enter may learn and go forth to serve as competent farmers and forthright citizens. Here environment, loyalty and close companionship leave an intangible imprint upon graduates long after they have entered the realistic world of action.

On June 12, 1923, Dr, Krauskopf died, deeply mourned by those he served so well. It may be interesting to speculate what more might have been accomplished had this thinker and Idoer been longer spared to a grate ful people. There were those, who during his lifetime thought the school, his child, could not survive after his passing, but the splendid progress made during. The past thirteen years, is a challenge to those who prophesied dis aster, They failed to appreciate the vitality of an idea and that in his wis dom the founder had surrounded himself with altruistic men and women in whose consciousness, the Krauskopf philosophy had been implanted. The progress and advance made during his lifetime and since, are definite results of his foresight and lofty idealism.

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