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make a topographical survey, our courses in elementary drafting, lettering 

 and freehand sketching, something certainly of the elements of architecture 

 in its simpler forms and uses, for they will be concerned with at least minor 

 architectural features needed in parks for park purposes (all other archer 

 tecture should be wholly excluded from parks), the power to write correctly 

 and effectively in English, and, of course, the utmost possible knowledge of 

 the plant materials -- trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants with which 

 they will be constantly concerned. This last involves fundamental instruc- 

 tion in many parts of horticulture as well as plant materials, and special 

 work in planting design. For these fundamentals we offer definite, carefully 

 chosen instruction, while all through our courses in design, construction 

 and planting, the needs and requirements, methods and relative costs of 

 maintenance are constantly kept in view by the instructor and brought to 

 the attention of the student. The problems in design and construction, 

 moreover, are nearly all based upon actual areas which the student visits 

 with the instructor, and are thus enabled to make those nice adjustments 

 of design to topography, which distinguish the best work not merely in 

 design but in execution and maintenance. 



It is desirable when possible that such instruction as a future park 

 executive receives with us be supplemented afterwards by some study and 

 travel abroad, particularly in England, and by a year or more of experience 

 in superintendence on the ground in the service of some firm of landscape 

 architects in good standing. It goes without saying that some experience 

 also with a contracting firm and with a nursery is highly useful. 



In closing, I am moved to urge that the better all-round general edu- 

 cation the student has before coming, the more he will get from the course, 

 and that the more he takes of the course, including those portions of it 

 which bear less directly and obviously on his future work, the better super- 

 intendent he will become and therefore the higher position he will be able 

 to attain among important park executives." 



Courses Given at Harvard Bearing on Work of Park Executives. 



Landscape Architecture, 2c. First half-year. Practice in Landscape Design (advanced course). Park Prob- 

 lems and Special Problems of Landscape Design. Solution of original problems based on topographical surveys. 

 Lectures, field work, drafting, criticism and collateral reading. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 2-5, and at least 

 twenty-one additional hours a week. 



Each of the larger problems will be preceded by special lectures with 

 illustrations and references, and the work on them will commonly begin 

 by a visit to the actual topography (in the vicinity of Cambridge) which 

 furnishes the basis of the problem. Under the guidance of the instructor, 

 the student is supposed to familiarize himself with the ground and to make 

 on the print of the topographic map which is furnished him such notes as 



