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music or assembly room with chairs for 1 60, and dairy room with mod- 

 ern machinery occupying the entire basement; in the Farm Mechanics 

 Building machine shed. 



For the second term of the present year seven classes met the first 

 period Monday, six the second, six the third, five the fourth, nine the 

 fifth, six the sixth, nine the seventh, and nine the eighth, or a total of 5 7 

 classes daily. To carry this load, for the whole day there were twenty- 

 three classrooms and laboratories available eight periods each, or 184 

 periods. This means a percentage of room use for the day of 31 per 

 cent. On Tuesday the percentage was 32, on Wednesday 33, on 

 Thursday 32, (one period was given over to assembly and is not 

 counted), on Friday 34. There are no classes on Saturday. For the 

 whole week the percentage was 32 (total number of periods use pos- 

 sible divided by total use actual). 



For the first period throughout the week the percentage of use was 33, 

 for the second period 32, for the third period 34, for the fourth period 

 29, for the fifth period 34, for the sixth period 30, for the seventh 

 period 35, and for the eighth period 31. 



None of these figures takes into account the work which was done out 

 of doors, or in other than classrooms or laboratories. It does, however, 

 include two rooms in the greenhouse which cannot be used all the time 

 because an insufficient number of classes use greenhouses. It is also 

 true that in some laboratories there are not sufficient drawer arrange- 

 ments for full use. This could be overcome in case of necessity by a 

 system of lockers. 



Due to the lack of complete records showing in what rooms classes 

 meet and numbers of pupils in classes it was not possible to show for 

 each room and building percentage of time used, and proportion be- 

 tween size of classes and seating capacity of rooms. For a number of 

 classrooms and classes, however, it is possible to show this proportion, 

 and the random illustrations will be sufficient to show the general relation 

 One classroom with seats for 32 held classes of 13, 21, 6, 4 

 One with 23 seats held a class of 7 

 Two rooms with seats for 20 and 32 held classes of 5, 10, 9, 14, 



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The largest class had an enrollment of 30. The smallest classroom 

 had 20 seats. The largest classroom had 56 seats. There were only 

 twelve classes (meeting 43 times a week out of a total of 289 class 

 meetings) in the second term which could not be seated in the smallest 

 classroom. 



The conclusion seems inevitable that the school has more room than it 

 can use. After providing for extra rooms for all purposes including rest 

 rooms, store, practice home, locker rooms, music rooms, there remain 



