High-school buildings and grounds . 18 HIGH-SCHOOL BUTLDHSTOS AND Plate 11.—PLANT ROOM, ADJACENT TO BOTANY LABORATORIES, CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL, WASHINGTON, D. O. A glassed-in area for plant propagation, connecting directly with the botany group, is sometimes preferable to greenhouses. (C) THE SCHOOL LIBRARY. The school library group has become one of the most vital, as well as inter-esting, features of the modern high school. It offers opportunity to schooladministrators and the architect to depart from fixed conventions of schoolprocedure. Educationally, it constitutes one of the most


High-school buildings and grounds . 18 HIGH-SCHOOL BUTLDHSTOS AND Plate 11.—PLANT ROOM, ADJACENT TO BOTANY LABORATORIES, CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL, WASHINGTON, D. O. A glassed-in area for plant propagation, connecting directly with the botany group, is sometimes preferable to greenhouses. (C) THE SCHOOL LIBRARY. The school library group has become one of the most vital, as well as inter-esting, features of the modern high school. It offers opportunity to schooladministrators and the architect to depart from fixed conventions of schoolprocedure. Educationally, it constitutes one of the most effective units; archi-tecturally, it lends itself to characteristic treatment both in furniture anddecoration. For the small high school, the library group is usually restricted to a mainreading room, a conference room, and a workroom for the librarian. In thelarge high schools, the accessory rooms are frequently increased to several con-ference rooms for the group project work and may even include one or moreclassrooms for library courses, a store room, a stack room


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