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room, and seats for the accommodation of the scholars, and suitable means for warming the room. This plan may also be used for one large school, and the room R, used as a recitation room by the assistant teacher, in which case, it should communicate directly with the large school room instead of the entries.

The seats and desks in the large school room are designed for two scholars, and are sufficient in number to accommodate seventy, besides the front row of seats which may be used for recitations. These seats should be arranged so that the pupils will sit facing. T.-Teacher's platform, extending entirely across the room. I.-Smoke and ventilating flues.

B B.-Black-board, on the wall extending across the room. S.-Stove, with air tube for admitting fresh air, as mentioned in plan No. 1.

The plan represents six windows on the sides of the buildingfour in the large school room, and one in each entry. There may be two windows for the small school room, instead of one, as shown in the plan.

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DDD D-Outer and inner doors. The entry should be lighted over the outer door. In this plan there is but one entrance door. The boys and girls are furnished with separate closets, opening into the school room.

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W W--Windows, of which there are two in front, and three on each side.

A A-Aisles. The central one is three feet wide, and each of the other four is two feet wide.

HH-Desks, four feet in length, and varying in height from one foot five inches, next the teacher's table, to two feet two incles, near the entrance doors. The desks should vary in width from one foot to one foot six inches, and slope about an inch to the foot.

II-Seats, varying in height from ten to seventeen inches. The front edge of the seat should be in the same perpendicular line as the lower edge of the desk.

T-Teacher's table, two feet wide and six feet long, furnished with a drawer, lock and key. It would be better, perhaps, to have this table stand upon a platform, elevated about eiglit inches from the floor, and extending entirely across the room.

B B-1ackboard, reaching entirely across the back end of the room, which should be made by giving the plastering a colored, hard finish.

RR--Recitation scats.

S-Store, the pipe of which, passing over the central aisle, should enter the chimney at the back end of the room.

O-Air tube, under the floor, through which pure air may be introduced beneath the stove. Impure air should be allowed to pass off through a ventilator adjoining the chimney, or by lowering the upper sash of the windows, or both.

L L-Movable seats near the stove, which may be occupied by the scholars while warming, or by small children, if necessary. They might be placed in the closets, which being warmed, could be occupied by assistants as recitation rooms.

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The above represents a plan for two distinct schools in one building, 34 by 54 feet, one story high. Each school room having but one front entrance. The large room will accommodate sixty, and the smaller forty, scholars.

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D D-Doors. A A-Entries.

B B-Library and apparatus rooms, which may be used as recitation rooms.

TT-Teacher's platforms, with blackboards behind each, on the wall. In the large room is a movable blackboard (b).

EEEE-Benches. Those on each side of the teacher's platform are fixed to the wall; the others are movable, and may be used as recitation seats, together with the seats in front of the desks.

HH-Seats.

G G-Desks.

II-Aisles, between the rows of seats.

F F-Vacant space next to the wall of the room.

SUGGESTIONS IN REGARD TO SCHOOL ARCHITEC

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LOCATION OF SCHOOL HOUSE.

The site of the school house should be dry, healthy and pleasant, easily accessible from all parts of the district, and apart from the dust, noise and danger of the highway. The vicinity of places of idle and dis-ipated resort should be avoided in selecting a site for a school house, as well as places of public business; and if it can be so chosen as to overlook a delightful country, and be surrounded by picturesque scenery, it will increase the attractions that should always surround it. "As many of the pleasant influenc. es of nature as possible should be gathered in and around the spot, where the earliest, most lasting and most controlling associations of a child's mind are formed," To secure these requisites, and avoid their opposites, it is frequently necessary to select a location more or less removed froin the territorial center of the district. It is desirable that the site should contain at least one acre of ground, never less than half an acre, and be inclosed with a

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