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GARDENS AND THEIR MEANING 
have been known to flourish, too. In one well-managed gar- 
den it is the custom to " choose partners ” for the working 
of each plot. This is certainly a step, if not a stride, toward 
cooperation. 
Probably the ideal way to utilize the highest incentives and 
bring out the best in human nature is through harmonious 
little partnerships working within one great brotherhood. 
How rare it is for grown people like ourselves to do their most 
telling work in isolation ! And is it not true that some highly 
PARTNERS 
gifted and efficient persons are pitifully limited in their use- 
fulness just because they cannot work with others ? Each 
one of us has learned, with more or less success, to reenforce 
his own peculiar gifts by the aid of criticism from efficient 
and responsive friends. The habit — one may truly say the 
talent — of working with others has been somehow supposed 
to develop of itself. The recognition of this talent as a force 
to be nurtured and utilized during the period of school life 
has, some believe, been too long neglected. It is time for 
schoolmen to realize its deep significance. 
Let us listen for a moment to what is being said by men 
out in the world who are " doing things.” Not long ago 
the managers of certain important business enterprises were 
