PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS 



ficiencies of our American system of edu- 

 cation that it does so little to develop 

 the aesthetic side of the ordinary citizen. 

 When one goes to Berlin, for example, and 

 sees there the beautiful theaters accessible 

 to the poorest classes, the magnificent art 

 galleries practically free to all, and the 

 wealth of public concerts in which the best 

 classic music is truly popularized, he begins 

 to feel that democratic America still has 

 something to do for her citizens. 



The best things that have been done 

 in this country, however, have been in the 

 direction of what we may call the popular- 

 ization of landscape. The park systems of 

 Boston, Hartford, New York and Chicago 

 have made beautiful landscape a daily in- 

 gredient in hvindreds of thousands of lives 

 otherwise almost untouched on the aesthetic 

 side. This good work ought to be extended, 

 and the good things thus developed ought 

 to be systematized and more widely applied. 

 The schools ought to recognize the value 

 of landscape, as they now recognize the 

 value of drawing, literature and music. 

 We would consider that school very 

 grossly mismanaged which should exist 

 for years beside a great library without 



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