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Student and faculty Worked together and built. Whether a play train for the kinder- garten or an ambitious bus garage, boys and girls enthusiastically pitched in. Manual labor as such was as much a part of the curriculum as Algebra and Latin. But there are other histories of the school for those interested patrons, and our chief concern is with the spirit, the life, the people. Park School teaches the student not only how to learn but how to live. The curricu- lum has been enriched by M-days, renova- tion projects, building, planting, Working, creating. Homework Was not stressed, for most students had an honest desire to learn and studied more than was necessary to meet requirements. The back steps were a favor- ite place to study during lunch hours.
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OUR VIEW OF THE PARK SCHOOL At its completion in 1917, the campus of the Park School secured international acclaim. Its list of firsts was endless: the first school with all classrooms on one level, the first school with full window lighting, the first school with an outside door to every classroom fdesigned to get the faculty members out of the class- room J, the only school placed as to points of the compass to secure the best lighting conditions, etc. But the school's true fame lay not in its physical plant but in the searching philosophies underlying and stimulating the spirit of the faculty and student body. The Park School pioneered the American educational movement, which geared its courses to the maturation of the individual rather than the fact retention of the collective group. 3
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Even the soil was utilized for the best advantages of the learning and growing process. In the kindergarten, primary, and intermediate grades students planted flowers behind the classrooms, and in the upper grades boys and girls graded the Liberty Heights Avenue hill and planted trees. Everywhere nature and the school worked together. The School road, con- stantly out of repair, commanded the continual attention of the House and Grounds Committee. It wasn't the work that made the school stand out but the working together. 5 X ral
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