Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-08-02

lar Go and look at it on the third floor. 1t
cuts of both light and venilstion. so that
the foui air that comes out of GU. room must
rush into The opposite room. The hall was
int nded to be open at both ends. as a COM
mon ouIsf OF foul air from all The rooms; H.
stead of which. it is converted into store
hnuss of foul air from all the rooms, 10 rush
into The first one ops ned. asE0
N.xI look at the danger and the folly nf
taxing pui the solfd brick wall thirty feet in
leng b. that supported the ceiling and the
b avy gravri,-t roof so ti'at a spaee of fifty
feet that was sHppsri ell by a central wall is
now uns Ipparied. Four gpHl school rauIa-
ar. thus spoiled by being made in'o two, %
as TO pat into II twice many pupils enc
teacher can dn justice To-.
/ By an ilch-buurd partition, q room about
| ten by thirty feet il cut off at the end OF this
large room. Whates er is done in one OF
| these rooms can be distinctly heard in the
other, 50 t;at the boarrl- NIGH as we'll Goi be
! there. The lower. part OF this Inlrtilisrn is
hung with rep"s or p,illrys. so as TO slide up
and down. This will be IL comfortable dead
fail fr the children TO he caught in. Do not
tiy 10 laihom The de-; p wisdom of THIS design.
but pu y"ur hand against the partition and
shake 1T gently. andsce what a fine rafting
n"i-e it Makes {" quiet The chldrn; but do
not De 20 angry as TO knock it down with
This is the school that pays $50 per
| hundr' for. .-nois-less siaies,' mer-iy he
c Use piece OF old cloth is glued onto the
Frames.
The schools do not buy hooks. but leave
that matter to parents and booksellers"
They only buy 500 -lates. &c. for The '.indi
| g mt pupils" and say. if you want States you
can have them at 81 cents each.
| II these 500 states are for poor children,
then one-fuurth of the schools are paupers.
Why was riiis trssie tessr-ss icaT8 III boekseli-
ers? On this one purchase $50 or 500 might
have been saved; but no, some $3.50 must be
paid Tor -'noispl,ss States and $500 or LOCO
more for '-partitidn ratilprs.' Look at the
Hume and al the Hynes Building, for Pat
ent Ink-standS, S70,'' aud you fad they cost
about thirty cents each. when better ones can
b. got for five to ten cents. But these little
savings of three to six hundred per cent the
committee tell us "are of too trivial char
acter to merit a separate explanation But
observe the wisdom in the distribution of
these ink-stands. In room containing some
40 ink-stands, you will see one at each cor
ner seat. as the Military Editor of the Patriot
would say, to act as fuglemen (or fiji gelmen.)
Could not the corner boys the same kind
of iuk-stands as the others, or are the inter-
mediate ranks 10 be filled up with patent
Ink-stands, $50 not $40 or $50.
If these roofs should fall in. or the hung
partitions should fall and kill some of the
manelaughter?
r .ader do not take for granted what |
have said or what | may say on this or any
Other subj CT, but examine for yourself, anu
remember all the facts aud classify them.
putting into one class Justice, Judgment and
economy, and in the other everything that
shows the opposite. Do not say you are not
interested in it, There Is no man. woman or
child i'll Nashville who is not interested in
this matter. In Nashville Education is not
only valuable tor its own sake, but 1t has
commercial value. and its chrapness and eX
cellcnce are the standard by which is to be
measured the growth or decay of the CITY
aud consequently the value of property
aport towns may look TO their position for
prosperity, but the prosperity OF Nashville
always has been. and il always will lie, de-
pendent ON her roads her schools. aud
hese will eventually give birth TO manuiac-
lures. Establish scho, l. of the excel
lence aud a. cheap as those in New ORLEANS,
PriladelphIa. &C., aud Nashville will be
s"ught a. IL place of residence and business.
For want ol sucn ,cHools how many tax
pIycIs have become discouraged AT III,
SCHOOLS her, and are now sending their
children "ut of lie city TO get an educationT
Gn AID look at lie Costly Hn"aid 81, ldIng,
la South NashN lille. and see If jud gineut ami
,couumy have been consulted With the
architecture OF e building. as such. have
-adap alton must originate with those who
emt,iuy aH architect. LIS origin then l. up
posed to be with ihs. Boa d. The sciruce of
Optics, o. Acoustics, and vi Puy siul"gy seem
TO have been but liItle Thought OF. The
main building is III Ihree large study halls.
u, rhaps so by 60, aud at each corner IS AN
addition Tor stains and 20 or 80 recitation
rooms. about 10 let ~ are. L pity the
teacher that has 20 be shut up III one OF these
litile rooms with 20 or 80 pupils. Think OF
il We WHO love to br atne. aud say il you
would like to be either teacher or pupil, to
ne smut up with 20 others III "a room 10 feel
souare? Tine teach IS platform should occu
py at least six feet of this, aud the CHI dren
are to he stow, into the rest of it. Tnis is
the siZ.. at he How ard Building, while those
a, the Hume Building, % ~ 80, must be
altered in rounls 80 oy so. Is this consls-
tencS? What chance is there in these little
rooms 10 train tue voices, very important
thing?
The first thing that strikes the educated
eye on entering the large study hail. is the
great Inconvenience from the manner i'll
which light is admitted. On each side
five windows, and three at each end. The
crossing of the rays of light coming in so
many different directions Is very unpleasant
aud injurious TO the eye. Nature sends light
In one direction aud reflects il according to
one law. Ii this law is violated i'll the struc-
ture of school rooms, studios, etc., the eye
must pay the penalty of That transgression.
How admira ply the laws of vision are studied
in the structure OF the hume building the
light being admitted behind the pupil, il is
consequently reflected to the eye. This
is madr much worse by the narrowness of the
windows, ~ hich gives them rather the effect OF
cracks than windows. The walls being Is
inches thick, and opening of most of them
only admitting Is inches in width of light,
there is very little chance for reflection of
the rays; consequently the sixteen windows
will still leave parts of the room deficient
in light. This is made still worse by the eX
ternal protection oil the walls of the recita-
ton rooms, cuts off on all sides OF the house,
all except the direct rays of light The cir
culatinn of air is Ubotrucied by the same ar
rangement. Had the i've side windows been
mad into two. they would have cost but ha I
as much, andthey would have given threeIlInes
as much light. As it is, the pupil IN the COR
ner must walk fifteen feet along the end wall
before be gets one ray OF light from The win
dow nearest him on the side he LETT, and he
must advance thirty feet from the corner be-
fore he can get one ray from The most distant
one on he side he left; and every step ne adj
vancrd cutting off SO much OF the rays from the |
opposite side, and when III the middle be |
dues not get half the rays from her side
Those coming in at the farther end will be of |
no use to tn. student "hilN t'Is'-e - srant
will be an injury, SO that in room WIN siA
teen window~, be i. deficient in light. make |
The structure will at The sane "a or speak in.
th'' rom d nenia oae f, ct in the upper part
4 space oi SIX q" Tishout the means II ventii-
a ion. "Huls is
II ID the recitation rU--,s been placed to-
gcther along the sides o the hall, it would
| b we SAVED several thousand dollars in cosi,
aud by having large window, extending up
/ tn t,,,. c,itinp at the ends oil the halls liz hL