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THE CULTIVATOR. 
June, 
Construction of School Houses. 
Editors Country Gent. —In a poor and thinly ‘ p—~ t| | 
settled district, wo are anxious to build a school-house. ci P j 
Will you furnish us the design of a common, cheap B 
school-house, the cost not to exceed three or four hun- | yjs || 
dred dollars, and accommodating about thirty-five or 1 ■ ■■■ - -- 1 Ns -^ • ■■ -r| 
forty scholars. For the internal arrangement we want | j] 
the latest and most improved style. In The Cultivator , I r r ' j r ~““~~\ 1 I » 
vol. 7, p. 396, and vol. 9, p. 75, we have designs ; but - WA/M WAAm 'WW/M. W/iMm * 
the expense is beyond the ability of the district. J. B. wmw, vmmm W/W/pA 
Masten. Rouse's Point , N. Y. •mJm. im/tM A mmmR J 
The subject presented by the inquiry of our corres- j WA//& WM/Ml VAMh j 
pondent, is one of deep interest, and worthy of the 1 WMWm WM/SMl Wf//Mm 1 
serious attention of every citizen. Thousands of dol- I | j * 
lars—we might almost say millions—are yearly wasted W/MA. 9S//A WAAMi W/MAk 
in the erection of unsuitable school-houses, which most W'W7/ W/AM m g 
commonly answer the purpose but very imperfectly. W/M/A WMm A Vw/rnm | 
and are not unfrequently a great waste of money by WMM, . pg§} WM/Ath I 
bad arrangement. State governments could not better 1 ^ [l 
apply a little money than by publishing a small, well L. . L 
prepared pamphlet on the erection, arrangement, and P 
furnishing of the cheaper district school-houses, and 1 1- 0 
sending a copy to every district. pi an 0 f Floor. 
The internal structure of a small house is exhibited wide and twenty-seven high. Every desk should be 
in the accompanying plan. The teacher’s desk a, is on numbered. The stove is placed at S. R R are the 
a raised platform; the pupil’s desks are in front of this, recitation rooms, one of which may be used for the 
and occupy the center of the room. The principal smaller children, and the other for more advanced 
aisle runs through the middle, separating boys and classes. If the teacher has one or more assistants, 
girls; this should be four feet wide; the two smaller, these rooms may be separately partitioned off, or the 
on either side, need not be more than twenty inches partitions may be left open next the teacher’s desk, but 
wide. Each pupil is provided with a seat and desk, shut off from the rest of the school, or with sliding 
two pupils occupying side by side the same double doors, so that he may hear one of the classes from his 
seat—a greater number should never be placed togeth- seat. Or if only one teacher is employed, there need 
er for several reasons, one of which' is, the inner ones be no partitions, and the same places occupied by the 
cannot leave their seats without disturbing their neigh- reciting classes; or, one of these rooms may be used for 
bors. The smaller or narrower seats and desks, for the a library, &c. Each room should be furnished with 
smaller children, are placed nearest the teacher; these blackboards, and now that clocks are so cheap, no 
seats are about nine inches in width and ten and-a-half school should be without one, to be placed over the 
high, with desks twelve inches wide and twenty-one teacher’s desk. Outline maps may be hung on the 
high. The larger seats are eleven and-a-half inches partitions of the recitation rooms. The entrance porch 
wide and fourteen inches high, with desks fifteen inches | P, may be used for hanging up caps &c., and it should 
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