ABSTRACT
The contract, while appointing Bill as Administrative Head of the school, required him to conform to the reasonable instructions of the Trustees. Although W. B. Curry had been to a grammar school himself he too, like Leonard Elmhirst, was thinking far more of public schools. Public schools were flourishing. The separation made Dartington more like other schools. As numbers increased he instituted in the Senior School a School Council consisting of elected representatives chosen from the houses and the teaching groups, the teaching staff and the domestic staff, with the children in a voting majority. The neo-Georgian touch made it look more like an ordinary school and the numbers of children rose steadily. Dartington became an international school and so remained until later when British were mixed with German, Austrian, French, Swiss, Polish, Spanish, Persian, Danish, Dutch, Egyptian, Italian, Indian and, of course, American.
