TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART I 25 



Necessity for an Adequate Educational Building on the 

 Iowa State Fair Grounds. 



Present Accommodations: 



1. Inadequate space. 



2. Unfortunate surroundings for exhibits — commercial concessions 



and distracting counter attractions. 



3. Arrangement and character of rooms very poor. 



4. Light insuificient. 



5 Auditorium accommodations at present offered — crowded and 

 very unsatisfactory because of noise of passing visitors. 

 Provisions needed in new structure: 



1. General school exhibits — 



a. Rural. 



b. Consolidated. 



c. Graded and high schools. 



2. Vocational — 



a. Home making. 



b. Agriculture. 



c. Trades and industries. 



d. Commercial. 



NOTE — Boys' and Girls' Club activities in home making and agri- 

 culture should have space here. 



3. Health activities of the public schools — 



a. Work and demonstrations of county and city school 



nurses. 



b. School and community clinics and other demonstrations 



relating to health. 



c. Sanitation and so forth. 



4. School equipment — 



a. Drawings and models of buildings and grounds. 



b. Furniture. 



c. Systems of building, heating and ventilation. 



d. Teaching apparatus. 



e. Libraries, pictures, and equipment for moral and religious 



instruction. 



f. Visual instruction apparatus — lanterns, slides, stereo- 



scopes, and stereographs. 



5. Exhibits and demonstrations from state institutions of ele- 



mentary and secondary rank — 



a. School for blind. 



b. School for deaf. 



c. School for feeble minded. 



d. Industrial schools. 



6. Higher institutions of learning — 



a. Private colleges. 



b. State institutions, 



(1) State University of Iowa. 



(2) Iowa State College. 



(3) Iowa State Teachers' College. 



