Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1905-02-17
In Its New Home.

On Tuesday last the AS pupils attend
ing school in district four, and the
fourteen teachers moved back into the
new schoolhOuse having been exiled a
year lacking 4S days.
a hearty cheer went up from the
pupils of the high school last Friday
when Principal Skillings announced TO
them that they would enter the new
building on Tuesday. After two months
of freeze-outs in their temporary quarters
the change to a well lighted, well heated
and comfortably furnished building was
very welcome. Yet the pupils and
teachers have borne their exile well
and there has been almost no complain
ing. The pupils are not the only ones
benefited by the change, it extends also
to the janitor, Mr.. Gulley, and to the
townspeople, and especially to the mer-
chants and those having business on
Main street who were sometimes con-
siderably disadvantaged by the presence
of the younger pupils on the streets at
noon and recess
There are any amount of improve
ments in the new building, chief of
which perhaps, is the ventilation system
which was spoken of in these columns
two weeks ago. There is very strong
current of air continually passing
through the big ventilator shafts. The
school building has been fitted with a
system of electric bells for use in assemb-
ling and dismissal. There are to be two
bells rung outside, one at e:45 and one at
$3.50. This bell is located on the front of
the building directly over the door, and
above the second story window. There
will be two inside bells, one at S:55 and
one at a. m. These bell are controlled
from switch in the principals office.
No pupils living in town will be admitted
to the building until the ringing of the
o:45 bell, when they will go to their
rooms, but will not be obliged to take
their seats until the S:55 bell. The tuition
pupils bringing their lunches will be
admitted to the building before S:45 but
only to the lunch rooms. Three noon
bells will be rung, two outside at :15
and l:25 and two inside at :25 and 80.
The desks installed in the rooms are
much the same as were those in the high
and grammar schools of the old building.
Both desks and chairs are ad diustable and
are fitted with sloping lid, which upon
raising gives access to the inside, also
each has an inkwell.
AS one enters the main door, to the
right at the foot of the stairs, is grade
three, to the left grade four, and beyond
the stairs to the right grade two, and to
the left grade one. At the middle of
the rear Is lunch room. On the second
floor In the south east corner is the fresh
men class of the high school, on the
south west corner, the laboratory, on
the north side is the large room divided
by Siding partitions, and occupied by
the sophomOres in the west half and by
the seniors and juniors in the east half.
In the middle of the rear is another
lunch room, and in the mid lie of the
front is Principal Skillings Office. On
the third floor in the south west corner
Is the grammar school, on the south east
corner Is grade seven. IN the north west
corner Is grade six, and in the north east
corner is grade 3, at the middle of the
rear is the grammar school recitation
room.
The session Tuesday was given up to
assigning seats, arranging wraps in
proper order in the wardrObes, and
measuring pupils for the proper adjust
ment of seats There was no afternoon
session IN the high school but the regular
schedule was resumed there ON Wednes-
day.