Excerpt from State of Maryland; Teachers' Year Book: For the Information, Use and Guidance of Officials and Teachers of the Public Schools of the State of Maryland; Scholastic Year 1912-1913 It is impossible to set any arbitrary standard for the size of a school ground in the country. It certainly should be large enough for baseball, as it ought not to be necessary to do most of the school play in the neigh bors' fields, as is SO often the case at present. Very often a neighbor hood park and picnic ground should be made at the school also. This should always be done, I am inclined to believe, if the site cfiers the facilities, and there is no better place in the. Neighborhood. The minimum size for the ground of a country school should be two acres. Nothing less than this will do for baseball, and if the tract is to be used by the older people evenings and Saturdays, as it ought to be, nothing less than three acres will be adequate. Ten acres will not be too much for the general athletic field and picnic place for the district. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.