SCHOOLS 



Seldom is there a rural district so fortunately located for schools as 

 Runnymede. A beautiful new, modern $20,000 grammar school is 

 located on the most picturesque site of the colony. This has four well 

 lighted and ventilated recitation rooms. Also large aud i tori u-m,- with 

 stage setting and modern moving picture arrangements. It also has a 

 kitchen for teaching domestic art science. This school has its own well 

 and centrifugal pumping plant for water supply. 



In conjunction with the school is four acres of land donated to the 

 school by Chas. Weeks for the purpose of School Gardening. The 

 School Garden movement is growing over the world and the Runny- 

 mede School Garden is expected to be a model along this industrial 

 science which means so much to humanity. We are beginning to see 

 that the highest work of the teacher is to impart to the child that 

 knowledge which will enable it to live well in the natural way, close to 

 the soil, out in the fresh air and sunshine. 



Every child instinctively loves nature and craves the opportunity 

 of reveling in the wisdom of plant and animal creation. Every child 

 should be reared in a garden and become a creator of its own earthly 

 paradise. Every child should have its aesthetic tastes developed in 

 the love of plants, flowers, and domestic animals. Pity the poor little 

 starved souls in tenement houses in large cities, shut out from this 

 natural existence. 



A school surrounded by a garden with beautiful flowers, luxuriant 

 vegetables, thriving trees, delicious fruits, gives the child a fit environ- 

 ment which will add to a healthy, useful and unselfish life. With soil 

 and water and climate, the best in the world, what a fairyland is 

 possible for our children. 



The Runnymede school will be a garden school where the boys and 

 girls will learn how to produce from the soil with their own hands the 

 very choicest things for the table. They will learn to love all growing 

 plants and animals and will be a part of nature itself and will have a 

 keen appreciation of the essentials of life. This school garden will 

 surround the Runnymede school and will be a visual manifestation of 

 the greatest quantities of luxuries that can be produced on the least 

 space of land. This garden will be a continual incentive for every 

 settler of Runnymede and will help all newcomers to learn the art of 

 producing a good living from a little land. 



STANFORD UNIVERSITY 



Stanford University, founded by Leland Stanford, is one of the 

 richest universities in the world, having an endowment of thirty 

 million dollars. Space is too limited to give an adequate description 

 of this wonderful institution, lying at the base of the foothills over- 

 looking San Francisco Bay, surrounded by its ten thousand acres of 

 picturesque landscape. 



Stanford University is three miles from Runnymede, and is directly 

 connected by the University avenue car line and fine macadam road. 



What a wonderful privilege it is to build a garden home right under 

 the shadow of one of the greatest universities in the world. What a 



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