Schools

The Idea: A school building in glass.

The Motive: To promote health./-

The Story: Said a despatch from Berlin last week: "The Steglitz District of the German capital is to have an enormous new public school constructed practically entirely of glass.

"According to the plans approved today, the building will consist of a frame of steel and concrete, with outside walls of heavy plate glass. The partitions separating the classrooms will also consist of glass.

"To carry the cheerfulness still further, the new school will be surrounded by a beautiful park, visible from every section of the building, even the inside rooms. If the experiment is successful all new schools here will be built along the same lines."

/-Already in Birmingham, England, schools have ordered their window panes replaced with glass constructed to permit passage of the ultraviolet rays of sunlight (TIME, Nov. 1,1926).