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May 3, 1929 WI L M B T T E L I .F E 63 Beautification of Evanston parks and playgrounds along the lines of those in Oak Park which are considered among the finest in the country is urged by W. C. Bechtold, sup_ e rintendent of the bureau of recreation. He expressed the hope that this project could be accomplished within the next two or three years, upon his return from the sixth annual conference of Illinois recreation leaders in Oak Park last week. He suggests that an expenditure of $500 on each Evanston park and playground would go a long way toward enhancing their beauty. "Practically every park and playground here has possibilities for becoming a beauty spot through landscaping, the correct surfacing an_ d planting of hedges," he stated. "So!!le are pretty, no doubt, but much more could be done. "Effect of beauty on the children has been widely noted, and Oak Park recreation leaders state that since their program of playground beautification was completed, vandallsm has been reduced to almost nothing. Surroundings influence the type of play amona- the children; their environment teaches them love of beauty. They appreciate fully what is done for them." Oak Park has only four playgrounds (in addition to several parks) but each of these has a shelter house erected at a cost of around $10,000, which serves as a community center. The playgrounds are divided into two sections by hedges, so that one part has a clay surface with torpedo sand and is suit!lble for more active games, while the ·o ther section has trees and bushes and hence shade for the more quiet activities. They have also open air theaters made by mounding of the earth and shrubbery. A party of ten recreation leaders and students of the Leaders' institute represented Evanston at the conference. C. T. Byrnes, director of men's activities, addressed the Friday morning meeting on water sports programs which he has developed highly here. Beautify Pla:v Fields Harvard Offers Course in , as Oak Pt~trk Does, Is Real Estate Fundamentals Are · like bankers .and lawSupt. Bechtold,s Plea yers, torealtors. be done with the daY§ of the has just recommended to Rutgers Uni- Estate Boards. on real estate cour3es versity the establishment of an under- in colleges and universities, a total of graduate course designed as a prepara- 190 courses is offered. Of these 116 tion for the real estate business. are given in the regular full-time day According to the most recent figures, program. 54 are evening courses and lowly apprentice who learns the busi- tabulated ·by the department of educa- 20 are offered through extension divit)ess from the bottom of the ladder tion of National Association of Real sions. right on up to the president's office, and to be included in that group of professions and bu'sinesses in which the beginper has learned the theory in ·school and gets the practical side from his first experience? So it would seem. Harvard is now that have sixty-eighth in the list of universitie3 and colleges offering courses in real estate instruction. and · The recently organized course in real estate fundamen.tals which is being of.IST.l.~TIO'& OF fered by Harvard is given as a graduate for course in the school of business administration. The case method of in& struction is used. That is, when industrial property is being studied the Our Easy Payment Plan Will Fit Into Your Budget students test out theory on the study of call some particular example of industrial property which they can investigate. e4f~.The real estate courses at Northwestern University and at the Univer·sity of Michigan are also included in the work of the graduate schools of 701-709 N. SANGAMON ST., CHICAGO those institutions. The New Jersey state association of real estate boards ·························· STYLE-~OLOa PA'ITI· · aOIIE STOllE IIAYIIA.KIT .: U.S. Tent &Awning Co. ·························· ('Indian Hill Estates Is Not Expensive" "Nowhere on the North Shore-in the new or old section-are prices as low for the values given as in Indian Hill Estates." Such is the matured conclusion of careful buyers who·live on the North Shore and know it well. April Building Total Due to Pass Million; It Goes Only Halfway While, until the close of , business Tuesday, Evanston~s April building total was expected to exceed the $1,250,000 mark, the final unofficial total was only a little over $500,000, very close to the April, 1928 total-$507,000. Last April 102 permits were issued and almost the same number went out last month, but what was expected to be April's ace in the hole, the $700,000 Marshall Field building, did not come in under the wire, blasting the expectations of .building officials that Evanston would hit its million-a-month stride. · The two largest projects for which permits were issued during April were the $225,000 Victor C. Carlson building on Church street and the $100,000 Northminster Presbyterian church. The permit for the remodeling of the east half of the old Campus theater at a cost of $35,000 was also issued but the permit for remodeling the west half, to cost approximately the same amount, did not go out. 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