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3. The school garden may serve a number of purposes, as study, beauty, 

 recreation, practical utility. 



4. The school ground should be planned, and the work of planting and 

 beautifying so executed, and the grounds so kept that they will serve 

 as a model for study by the residents of the community. 



5. The grounds should be the pride of the school and they should be 

 the outward manifestation of the inner spirit of the school. 



6. Artistic beauty will help to win a better school spirit and a closer 

 sympathy among teachers, pupils, parents, and taxpayers. 



From the above points we should therefore easily reach the 

 conclusion that this work should not be planned in a haphazard 

 way by inexperienced and untrained minds. Every school board 

 should be impressed with the fact that in selecting a school site 

 and planning buildings and grounds, they are dealing with that 

 which may be far-reaching in its consequences. It is to become a 

 familiar scene; it will become a landmark; it will form lasting 

 impressions and the pictures of memory. The work of beautify- 

 ing the grounds should have a plan. 



There should be as much care in the selection of the land- 

 scape artist and in the execution of his plans as in the selection 

 of an architect and competent workmen for the construction of a 

 school building. No building should ever be placed where there 

 is no room for large and commodious grounds. The grounds are 

 a part of the complete school. A school without grounds is a 

 lame school, and it will make crippled minds. 



Location of Buildings. 



School buildings should not be located near the street, nor on 

 busy, noisy thoroughfares. They should be away from smoke 

 and the noise of factories and railroads, as far as possible and 

 practicable. 



The primary consideration in the organization of new schools 

 should be location of grounds. Second, the location of the build- 

 ing. The proper order for this work should be : 



1. Selection of a proper site. 



2. Selection of an area of sufficient size. 



3. Planning the school grounds. 



4. Plans and location of building. 



