. Social center features in new elementary school architecture and the plans of sixteen socialized schools . s, each 26x71 feet, in the basement, while its new Froebelschool will have still larger gymnasiums located on the first floor,on the two sides of the auditorium. They will be connected withthe playground in the rear by independent entrances. Thegymnasium of the Kalamazoo school is beneath the assemblyroom and has a running track. In the Eagle school in Cleveland, there is not only a large gymnasium in the basement, but thereare also two inside playrooms. The Westwood school in Cincin-na
. Social center features in new elementary school architecture and the plans of sixteen socialized schools . s, each 26x71 feet, in the basement, while its new Froebelschool will have still larger gymnasiums located on the first floor,on the two sides of the auditorium. They will be connected withthe playground in the rear by independent entrances. Thegymnasium of the Kalamazoo school is beneath the assemblyroom and has a running track. In the Eagle school in Cleveland, there is not only a large gymnasium in the basement, but thereare also two inside playrooms. The Westwood school in Cincin-nati has a gymnasium 38x64 feet, while that in the new Guilfordschool, of the same city, covers an even larger space. This school,as well as the Eagle school in Cleveland, is also provided with tworoof gardens, while roof playgrounds have been enjoyed in severalof the New York schools for a long while. The Winslow schoolof Beverly, Massachusetts, is furnished with a bowling alley, andsome of the Milwaukee schools are equipped with pool St. Louis, Cincinnati, and a number of other cities the cor-. Lu-iilesy oj Ilu lii ukbmldti Swimming Pool, Emerson School, Gary, Ind. ridors of the schools are being built so large that they can be usedas indoor playrooms during inclement weather. BathsThe provision of opportunities for strenuous physical exercisein our school buildings has brought with it the necessity of afford-ing bathing facilities. Few schools now furnished with gymna-siums are without shower baths in the adjoining dressing-rooms,while many of the new schools in New York, Cincinnati, and sev-eral other cities possess commodious plunge rooms. The newFroebel school in Gary will be equipped with two swimming lO pools, each 21x60 feet, and having locker and dressing-booth ac-commodations for four hundred men and three hundred women,these being so arranged that they can be used by outsidepeople without interfering with those of the pupils. In the newThorndike school in Ca
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