THE LANDSCAPE BEAUTIFUL 



10. PICNIC GROUNDS 



Name and locate all the best picnic grounds 

 in Amherst and tell what attractions each one 

 has. 



11. THE COMMONS 



Draw a map of one of the commons: Center, 

 North Amherst, East Amherst or South 

 Amherst. Tell what could be done to im- 

 prove the common. 



12. VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT 



What things could be done to make Amherst 

 more beautiful? 



Various teachers who have taken 

 these exercises report gratifying results. 

 The essential value of the work lies in the 

 fact that each exercise calls the attention 

 of the pupil to certain beautiful objects and 

 in such a way as to lead him to compcire 

 and discriminate on the basis of beauty. 



Another form of exercise which I have 

 tested with college students, but which is 

 capable of adaptation to grammar and high 

 schools, consists in studsang photographs 

 of landscapes. Of course, it might be 

 assiuned at once that no photograph is as 

 good as the landscape from which it is 

 taken, but this assumption is not quite true. 



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