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basement, has ninty-seven apartments, seventy-seven closets, eleven 

 spacious halls, eight bath-rooms, (with warm and cold water,) and 

 each story is furnished with iron verandas or promenades. Every 

 apartment is supplied with pure filtered rain water and the whole 

 premises is illuminated with rosin gas. The kitchen and dining- 

 room arrangements are complete. The drawing-rooms are spacious 

 and so arranged that pupils, teachers, and visitors, may all be ac- 

 commodated together. The improvement most worthy of special re- 

 mark, and that which must make the establishment the admiration 

 of visitors, is the mode of warming and ventilating. 



It is well known to all familiar with the subject, that atmospheric 

 air is the chief agent in purifying the blood ; that when inhaled, fully 

 charged with oxygen, it is freighted with the carbon of the blood 

 and thrown off by each expiration in the form of carbonic acid gas. 

 When thus loaded with impurities, it is no longer fit for use, until 

 it has passed through the great laboratory of nature. This carbonic 

 acid gas is absolutely poisonous and often proves fatal in mines and 

 wells. When it is remembered that during every twenty -four hours 

 no less than three thousand two hundred and forty gallons of air are" 

 required for the lungs of a single person ; that pure air is the first 

 requisite for healthy bodies and sound minds ; that in stove rooms, 

 especially, much of the oxygen is used in supporting combustion, the 

 importance of this subject will be understood. This model building 

 is a vast breathing apparatus, performing a complete respiration 

 twice every hour. It is impossible for the occupants to breathe the 

 same atmosphere the second time. To eifect this important object, a 

 tower has been erected 200 feet from the building, into which a cur- 

 rent of air is constantly pouring, and is conveyed by a subterraneous 

 passage to the basement, where it is attempered by coming in con- 

 tact with steam pipes, and passes thence by flues into each room, 

 entering near the ceiling. After pervading the room, and making 

 every part of the same temperature, it is passed out by other flues, 

 the registers being near the floor. In the summer season, the rooms 

 are cooled in the same manner, by means of another set of registers 

 and flues. Experience proves the perfection of the plan. A fire- 

 proof building, two hundred feet from the College, contains the boil- 

 ers, where the steam is generated for warmth and motive power. 



Other buildings, with all the requisite conveniences, are provided 

 for those pupils who from motives of economy, or otherwise, may 

 prefer to board themselves. The grounds are beautifully laid out 



