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The Farmstead 



Four college buildings are shown in Figs. 20, 

 21, 23, and 24. School buildings can hardly be 

 said to be a part of the farm lay-out, but they 

 will serve quite as well as farm* buildings to 



Fi^-. 20. University building,— gray stone and tile roof. 



educate the taste and to train the eye and the 

 judgment. The reader will see at once which 

 two of these buildings are most dignified and 

 pleasing. 



In the schools, the people of the rural dis- 

 tricts have had no instruction which would lead 

 them to carefully observe and compare buildings 

 of any kind; and hence, with but rare excep- 

 tions, they are ill -qualified to make an intelligent 

 study of them. They are totally unprepared to 

 grasp the fundamental principles which should 



