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making use of it, or near a well-stocked 

 art gallery without maturing intelligent 

 plans for bringing its student body into 

 vital touch with such a means of uplift. 

 Some city schools, in fact, are be- 

 ginning to use the parks; but, for the most 

 part, the effort is desultory and lacking 

 any great purpose. The parks are used 

 mostly by way of picnics for primziry 

 grades. Occasionally the kindergartners 

 visit the zoological gardens to see the 

 animals. Still more seldom does the botany 

 class study trees and shrubs in the parks, 

 or the geology pupils come to see where the 

 glaciers planed away the rocks. Yet the 

 parks are full of pictures — ^real living 

 pictures; — and the country roundabout, 

 accessible to most schools, contains larger 

 and sublimer pictures without end. The 

 ordinary school children do not find it a 

 defect that these pictures are not recognized 

 as classics and that they are not classified 

 and set down in the art catalogues. Only 

 the sophisticated teachers think it im- 

 possible, or even unworthy of them, to 

 teach such things, seeing they are not 

 stamped with the authority (and the 

 blight) of conventionality. Some of these 



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