Country life and the country school : a study of the agencies of rural progress and of the social relationship of the school to the country community . Horticultural Class Pruning Trees,John. Swaney School 154 COUNTRY LIFE AND THE COUNTRY SCHOOL the required majority of signatures, were supposed to grant theprayer of the petition. But this they refused to do. When sucha predicament occurs, the school law of Illinois provides thatthe question be weighed and decided by the county superin-tendent. To the county superintendent the petitions were thencarried. After careful and deliberate considerat
Country life and the country school : a study of the agencies of rural progress and of the social relationship of the school to the country community . Horticultural Class Pruning Trees,John. Swaney School 154 COUNTRY LIFE AND THE COUNTRY SCHOOL the required majority of signatures, were supposed to grant theprayer of the petition. But this they refused to do. When sucha predicament occurs, the school law of Illinois provides thatthe question be weighed and decided by the county superin-tendent. To the county superintendent the petitions were thencarried. After careful and deliberate consideration, in a mostexhaustive legal treatise on the subject, and at some peril tohis political prospects, the superintendent, to his ever-enduringhonor as a man and protector of children, revoked the decisionof the trustees and granted the prayer of the Baseball Field, John Swaney School A year later the building was dedicated. Although not anespecially wealthy community, liberal donations in money,about $2,000 in all, were made. Besides this, Mr. and Swaney, or, as they are afifectionately known to the chil-dren whose lives they have enriched, Uncle John and AuntSade, gave outright twenty-four acres of beautiful woodedland for a campus. Growing on this campus are three hun-dred noble trees, and through it winds a stream with all theopportunity for study and pleasure that water afifords. CONSOLIDATED COUNTRY SCHOOLS 155 Crowning the campus, here in the heart and quiet of allthis natural beauty, stands the building. It was originallyplanned at a cost of $12,000 but with the equipment installedthis sum soon reached approximately $15,000. It is a brickstructure containing four good schoolrooms, two laboratories,a library, offices, a shop for manual training, a kitchen fordomestic science, a basement playroom, a furnace room, cl
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