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rior to all others, or is unexceptionable in every re¬ 
spect, but because the plan could be conveniently 
obtained, and in it the great principles of school 
architecture are observed. 
The building stands 60 feet from the highway, 
near the centre of an elevated lot which slopes a 
little to the south and east. Much of the larger 
portion of the lot is in front, affording a pleasant 
play ground, while in the rear there is a woodshed, 
and other appropriate buildings, with separate 
yards for boys and girls. The walls are of brick, 
and are hollow, so as to save expense in securing 
antaes or pilasters, and to prevent dampness. This 
building is 33 feet 6 inches long, 21 feet 8 inches 
wide, and 18 feet 9 inches high from the ground to 
the eaves, including 2 feet base, or underpinning. 
The entries A, A, one for boys and the other for 
girls, are in the rear of the building, through the 
woodshed, which, with the yard, is also divided by a 
partition. Each entry is 7 feet 3 inches, by 9 feet 
3 inches, and is supplied with a scraper and mat for 
the feet, and shelves and hooks for outer garments. 
The school room is 24 feet 5 inches long, by 19 
feet 4 inches wide, and 15 feet 6 inches high in the 
clear, allowing an area of 472 feet, including the 
recess for the teacher’s platform, and an allowance 
of 200 cubic feet of air to a school of thirty-six. 
The teacher’s platform B, is 5 feet 2 inches wide, 
by 6 feet deep, including 3 feet of recess, and 9 
inches high. On it stands a table, the legs of 
which are set into the floor, so as to be firm, and at 
the same time movable, in case the platform is need- 
Top of Desk. —Fig. 90. 
ed for declamation, or other exercises of the 
scholars. Back of the teacher is a range of shelves 
b , already supplied with a library of near 400 vol¬ 
umes, and a globe, outline maps, and other appara¬ 
tus. On the top of the case is a clock. A black 
board 5 feet by 4, is suspended on weights, and 
steadied by a groove on each end, so as to admit of 
being raised and lowered by the teacher, directly in 
front of the bookcase, and in full view of the 
whole school. At the bottom of the black board is 
a trough to receive the chalk and the sponge, or 
soft cloth. 
The passages D, D, are 2 feet wide, and extend 
round the room ; E, E, are 15 inches, and allow of 
easy access to the seats and desks on either hand. 
F, is 5 feet 3 inches, and in the centre stands an 
open stove C, the pipe of which goes into one of 
the flues, a. The temperature is regulated by a 
thermometer. 
Each pupil is provided with a desk G, and seat H, 
the front of the former, constituting the back or sup¬ 
port of the latter, which slopes 2^ inches in 16. The 
seat also inclines a- ts-ts ---—y 
little from the edge. J-kXl- vT fy 
The seats vary in 
height, from 9^ in. 
Fig. 92. 
to 17, the youngest children occupying those 
nearest the platform. The desks are 2 feet long by 
18 inches wide, with a shelf beneath for books, 
and a groove on the back side b (Fig. 91) to re¬ 
ceive a slate, with which each desk is furnished 
by the district. The upper surface of the desk, 
except 3 inches of the most distant portion, slopes 
1 inch in a foot, and the edge is in the same per¬ 
pendicular line with the front of the seat. The 
level portion of the desk has a groove running 
along the line of the slope a (fig. 90) so as to pre¬ 
vent pencils and pens from rolling off, and an open¬ 
ing c (fig. 90) to receive an inkstand, which is 
covered by a metallic lid. 
The windows, I, three on the north and three on 
the south side, contain each 40 panes of 8 by 10 
