IMPROVEMENT OF SCHOOL GROUNDS 



Improvement Association to visit the schools 

 and endeavor to enlist the support and coopera- 

 tion of teachers and pupils. The children re- 

 sponded and worked well, hut the results showed 

 that neither teachers nor children were edu- 

 cated up to an appreciation of the eternal fit- 

 ness of things. In this case familiarity had 



Rosa setigera: Climbing Rose. 



produced contempt, for instead of being alive 

 to their opportunities and taking advantage of 

 material collected from woods and fields they 

 destroyed or disregarded the "wild things" 

 and planted seeds that came in paper packages. 

 One school was surrounded by a field of the 

 most fascinating moss-grown and lichen-cov- 

 ered glacial boulders. The teacher said she 



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