CRITICISM OF SCHOOL BUILDINGS.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20905, 12 July 1933, Page 3

CRITICISM OF SCHOOL BUILDINGS.

CONDITION OF MARLBOROUGB& COLLEGE. (PKJSS ASSOCIATIOK MLEO*AIC> BLENHEIM, July 11. ' Trenchant criticism of the shift range of buildings and isolate* wooden shacks at' present housing Marlborough College was made atjM meeting of the Board of Governors bjr Mr R. P. Fumess, who declared th«# as the college attendance grew, instead; of additions being made in the 100 pear cent, American way. they were glvtta a shed here and a shed there—a cage of here a shed and there a the thing was a glorified collection <tt army huts in which the children CouM not be taught to the best advantage^* '"Under the present ciraxmstancfji functions have to be held, out: of do<n or in the old gymnasium, with *c«Jr ing *o low that it -woiad crttk/W skuU of a man of average • height added Mr Furness. "It is all makMfhitt and I say the time is ripe for Marlborough to be given something nermay nent—something worthy of the district,. and something worthy of the Do* minion." . M ..... , ; Another speaker described the col* lege as "a conglomeration of meoiocr* shacks." " •"■ ■ . _s Other members and the principal (Mr John Stewart) concurred aad unanimously decided to approach tfa* Acting-Minister for Education, the Hon.' John Bitchener, on the occasion, of hitj projected visit to Blenheim, with at straight-out request for a new college building.