Evening star., 1925-03-09
PLAN FOR SINGLE
HUGE HIGH SCHOOL
WINNING SUPPORT
Officials to Study Proposal
Providing Building for All
intermediate Work.
WOULD USE PRESENT
FACILITIES FOR JUNIORS
Some Might Be Turned Over for
Grades Also-Secretary Davis
Backs Proposition.

On the eve of d trip of inspection
by school officials and the District
architect to survey school construc-
ton in other cities to be used as
guide in the s19.00o.o00 fve-year
school building program. the project
for great master high school for
Washington, proposed four years ago
by Secretary of Labor Davis. has been
revived and will be pushed in the i'm
mediate future, 1t became known
today.
With the aim of diverting part of
the money already authorized by
Congress to be spent over a five-year
period for schools in Washington to
a survey of the need for and
ultimate construction of a great high
school plant to serve as the master
senior high school for the city,
conference will be held within the
next few days to push the project.
Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas.
chairman of the Senate District com
mittee; Secretary Davis, Frank W.
Ballou, superintendent of schools, and
Ernest Greenwood, vice president of
the board and chairman of its build
ing, grounds and equipment COM
mittee, will attend the conference.
Mr. Greenwood. Mr.. Ballou and Mr..
Harris will go to Baltimore Friday
to survey the school facilities of that
city and plan other trips during the
Spring which will take them as far
west as Chicago.
Plan Wins Support.
Secretary Davis and Mr.. Greenwood
conferred at the Department of La
Dor today on the proposal for the
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lined by Mr.. Davis more than four
years ago, the project has been dor
mant since that time, meeting, how
ever, with good reception by Sena-
tor Capper and other leaders in Con-
gress. Now, with a definite school
building program embarked upon
and with money authorized by Con-
gress for completion of this program,
the project for a great master high
school with the many attractive sup
Elementary features that would create
a national shrine of intermediate edu-
cation, Mr.. Davis believes the time is
ripe for pushing the scheme.
Mr.. Davis plain would be for the
school authorities in Washington to
purchase a large tract of ground
somewhere on the outskirts of Wash
ington, preferably in an area in line
with the trend of population of the
school plant, which would combine all
the technical, vocational, business and
academic courses now offered in sepa-
rate schools in the City. Such plant,
Mr.. Davis said, would serve as the
senior high school for the entire
City of Washington. The present high
schools would be retained as junior
high schools and some of the present
high school buildings, among them
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ultimately be turned into grade
schools. Mr.. Davis proposal would
not stop at construction of one great
master high school plant, however.
AS the city grows and its popu-
lation nears the million mark, with
the corresponding necessary increase
in high school educational facilities,
he would favor construction of
another in an opposite section of the
city, each plant complete in itself
in its study courses. and each unit
in which would be offered every
modern high school educational op-
portunity, even to the first year of
college.
Would Become Model.
II want to see in Washington the
biggest, finest high school plant in
the world" he told Mr.. Greenwood.
"A plant that will serve as a model
not only to the United States but to
the whole world as a central educa-
tional plant.
I'VE can go out on the edge OF
Washington and buy a thousand
acres of land at a reasonable price
and put up a high school plant that
will be the model for all similar
projects in the world. l would have
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