Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-02-27

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These will conduct the vitiated air
above the ceiling, and il may then be
allowed to pass out at the south end
of the building through mock
chimney, or it may pass into the real
chimney. Others may prefer that
the chimney should stand in the.
center of the roof, and answer both
the above purposes; but the openings
for ventilation should occupy the
same position in either case, so that
the air after being heated may be
conducted to the back part Of the
school-room, aud be oreathed while
passing
The smallest school room should
not be less Than twelve or thirteen
feet high, aud a large school room
should be at least thirteen or fourteen
feet high.
The school,room should be AS "wide
aa 1T is long" or even wider; that is,
il should be as far across from east
to west as from north TO south, or
even farther. A school may be more
easily governed in room 80 shaped
than in any other. The distance
across from north to south may be a
trife farther than from east to west,
and do but slight harm but a long,
narrow school-room for school of
all grades, is q thing to be dreaded,
and especially 50 if il is o L0,o room.
The rostrum or "teacher's plat
form" should be from four to six
inches high, from four to five feet
wide, and should extend quite across
the room. Pupils who are busily
employed at the black board are
liable to step off or fall from rostrums
which extend only part way across
| knew two pupils whose spines were
seriously injured in this way,
The black board should be five and
one-half feet wide, should extend
across the north end of the room,
and the bottom OF it should come
down within eighteen inches Of the
platform. All the space along
the side walls not occupied by win
dows, should be blackboard Of the
same width as that across the end,
and it should come down within
eighteen inches Of the floor.
The outer door should not open
directly into the school-Ioom /; and
the most common plan for preventing
this is to cut off by a partition, from
five TO ten feet Of the south end Of
school-room, making an entry or two
of them If there are two outer doors.
Now, | do not like this plan for two
reasons: | have noticed that both
boys and girls are more inclined 20
misbehavior while in the entry than
while in plain view Of the teacher ;
and the entry is always cold and is
not fit place to keep the outer
garments in during school hours for
the child just from warm room,
who puts on a cold shawl or overcoat,
is not wholly tree from danger Of
"takiDg cold"
A better plan, one that would
correct both Of these faults, is to
construct a very small entry just
large enough in each case to accom-
modate the opening and closing Of
the outer door, but not large enough
fora play-room The inner or entry
door should be folding, self,closing,
noisless and cheap.
All the vacant space along the
south wall may be rendered very
useful by fastening to it two rows
Of hooks for hanging hats, bonnets
and outer garments. The upper row
Of hooks should be six feet from the
Fl cor, and the lower row three feet
from it Clothing hanging upon
these is always warm and may be
put on at any moment without
endangering the health of the pupil
The southeast and southwest corners
should each contain from three to
five shelves for dinner pals, etc
For such school-houses / prefer. the
single entrance with a large door.
The most convenient school-room
that have seen, considering the
number of pupils in attendance, is
one whose location and interal ar-
raugements are in accordance with
the above suggestions, and whose
Dimensions inside are twenty nine
feet from north to south and thirty
feet from east to west.