Arizona republican., 1912-05-26
Educational Tn tit utio r That Will Be Pride of the Phoenix Union
 District
PERFECTION OF
 APPOINTMENT
Public Invited to Assemble Tonight in Largest and Best Auditorium
 i'll Phoenix

r all the residents of the Phoenix union high school district had taken advantage of their privilege to thor oughIy inspect the new school plant now nearing completion as some have done and as representative of The Republican was permitted to do un- der the personal guidance of Prof. A K Stabler, the principal If the school. the institution would today he the talk of the town. IL is pro- posed in this article to mirror few of the impressions gained during d two hours tour of the buildings, dealing mainly in gener1Iities. with here and there dash into details that were particularly interesting. A little later the school management will issue pretrutious catalogue, which will set forth comprehensively many things that are important. but for which there is not space n a newspaper article. one year ago ., great dell was printed regarding the high school-what was planned coT it-but today the dream has mate rialized and the institution cannot fail to commend itself to every ris- itor.
 The scheme of things is the univcr- sity plan. or perhaps more appropri- ateIy named. the unit plan; that i: to say. separate buildings for par ticular purposes, perfect in desigT and equipment in so far as perfec- ton has been reached by architects and builders of school structures The high school does not embrace everything. but it is more compre- hensive than many colleges Were | generation back, and in all things undertaken it is as perfect today a' the most modern university. The new plant consists of three new buildings of classical Grecian archi lecture in their outward appearance a power house of harmonious de sign which will eventually become part of a much larger building de voted tO the mechanical arts. or. bet ter stated. advanced obstruction il those lines represented by mmua training in the graded schools Adapted to the plans and purpose of these new buildings will be tn present main building, which will b remodeled within to supply the need of the classical courses. language literature. etc. and the commercial department Then there is a larg and roomy. though not an imposing structure. across the canal from tn other buildings. at present used fo manual training that will eventual be removed or utilized as may scer best when the time comes.
 All told. there are now five build ings. three of which are new an which will Ike completed and cquippe at d total cost of $150,000. includin the $I0,O00 paid for the lot on Whic two of them stand and which com pIetes a school campus eXtendin from Fifth to Seventh streets, wit fine structures facing south, hu practically opening on three sides ( rectangle. When the debris ( construction has been cleared ava and the drives laid out in accOrdanC with the plan presented in the aC COmpanying picture. the place wi not only be the Citys pride as a institution of learning, but one , it's most attractive show places. Al ready the stranger cannot but | impressed as he stands in front the school square and looks up { the imposing fronts of the big whit buildings Still there is no real al