hence, show for themselves without exploitation.  To teachers and pupils it would seem a mark of ill-breeding to expatiate upon their own things.  Such a thing is simply not done in this school.  The auditorium is a stately, commodious, and beautiful room, and everybody connected with the school accepts it as a matter of course with no boastful comment.  Anything approaching braggadocio would prove a discordant note in this school, and, in this respect, it represents the American ideal that is to be.

=Rooms are phases of life.=—­The home economics room, the industrial arts room, the laboratories, the dining room, the rest rooms, and the hospital room are all supplied with suitable fittings and equipment and all represent phases of life.  At luncheon each pupil is served a bowl of soup or other hot dish to supplement his own private lunch, and this food is supplied at public expense.  The school authorities have the wisdom to realize that health is an asset of the community and is fundamental in effective school work.  The pupils serve their schoolmates in relays, wash the dishes, and restore them to their places.  The boys do not think they demean themselves by such service, but enter into it in the true spirit of democracy.  A teacher is present to modify and chasten the hurry and heedlessness of childhood, and there is decorum without apparent repression.

=Industrial work.=—­In connection with the industrial arts department there is a repair shop where all the implements that are used in caring for the school farm, gardens, orchards, and lawns are kept in repair.  Here the auto trucks in which the pupils are brought to the school are repaired by the drivers, assisted by the boys.  In this shop the boys gain the practical knowledge that enables them to keep in repair the tools and machinery, including automobiles, at their homes.  The farmers who have no sons in school avail themselves of the skill and fidelity that obtain in the shop, bringing in their tools, their harness, and their automobiles for needed repairs.  The money thus earned is expended for school equipment.  The products of the orchards, farm, and garden are the property of the school and are all preserved for use in the home economics department for school lunches.  The man in charge of the farm is employed by the year and is a member of the teaching staff.  The farm, gardens, orchard, and lawn are integral parts of the school, and perform the functions of laboratories.

=School a life enterprise.=—­There are all grades in the school, from the kindergarten through the high school.  There is but slight disparity in the size of the classes, for the parents instinctively set apart thirteen years of the time of their children for life in the school.  To these parents school and life are synonymous, and when a child enters the kindergarten he enlists in the enterprise for a term of thirteen years.  The homes as well as the school are arranged on this basis, and this plan of procedure