DIAGONAL ARRANGEMENT OF SCHOOL DESKS. VIRGIL WOODCOCK, of Swanzey, New Hampshire, has taken out a patent for an improvement in the arrangement of Desks and Seats in school-rooms, which is exhibited in the following Diagram. The room represented is 30 feet by 32, and will seat FIFTY-SIX Scholars, providing each with a chair, and a desk, each desk being 2 feet long, and 16 inches wide, leaving the two side aisles each 2 feet 9 inches wide, and the seven other aisles, each 18 inches wide, with a sufficient open space in front, for the teachers desks and evolutions of the school. The same room arranged on Mr. Woodcock's patented plan will seat SEVENTY-SIX scholars, with similar desks and chairs, and a similar open space in aisles. In addition to this economy of room, Mr. Woodcock claims, and we think justly, that this diagonal arrangement gives to each scholar all the advantages of a single desk each, facilitates the inspection of the school by the teacher, and adds to its efficiency, by enabling teacher and scholars to perform their respective duties with the least interference. Each pupil can take a position in the aisle in a line with his seat without interfering with the pupil before or behind him, or with those in the adjoining range of seats. Mr. Woodcock has made arrangement, with Joseph L. Ross, Manufacturer of School Furniture, in Boston, and New York, to introduce any of his style of chairs and desks on his plan. INDEX TO VOLUME I. OF BARNARD'S AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION. Abbott's, J., Teacher, contents of the, 769. on Bible and prayer in schools, 344. Abendberg, school for idiots at, 595. "number, teachers, pupils and income, 368. Juvenile population, 5 to 10; 10 to 15; 15 to Colleges in 1850, pupils, teachers & income, 368. 368. 368. Public schools native born Statistics of the deaf-mute, blind, insane, 650. (( slate and blackboard exercises, 770. history of, 3. first session of în 1851, 6. American Journal of Education, plan of, 111, 134. Amherst College, statistics of, 405. "L introduction of study of, 55. Architecture applied to schools, 787. schools of, 328, 626. Archives of American Association, 5. Arctic lands and islands, ext. in sq. miles, 365. United States, 367. ! X and index of Educ. in Europe, 746. history of Education in Connecticut, 761. Library of Education, 563. National Education in U. States, 764. Basle, university of, 404. Bates, Joshua, of London, 204. BAVARIA, Educational statistics of, 1851-2, 526. Public libraries, 626. Academy of paintings, 626. Conservatism of music, 526. Universitives, 626. Lycea, 626. Gymnasia and Latin schools, 626. Special schools, 626. Common schools, 627. Industrial schools, 627. Drawing schools, 627. Infant schools, 627. Convent and private schools, 627. Belgium industrial school, 384. 66 "apprentice work-shop for boys, 384. Ateliers d' apprentisage, in East Flanders, 384 Berlin trade institute, 322. Berlin University, 402, 404. Bermuda Islands, extent in square miles, 366. 66 population in 1850, 365. Berne, university of, 404. Bible and prayer in schools, 344. Biographical sketch, and notices. Abbott Lawrence, 205. Ezekiel Cheever, 297. Thomas H. Gallaudet, 417. Thomas H. Perkins, 551. Charles Brooks, 587. T. Romeyn Beck, 655. Mississippi, 447. Missouri, 448. North Carolina, 451, Pennsylvania, 453. Tennessee, 455. Bolivia, extent and population of, 365. Bonn, university of, 402, 404. Books on theory and practice of education. Population in 1855, 458. Number of pupils in public schools, 458. Evening schools, 460. Truant children and absentees from school, 460. Primary schools, pupils in, 461. Education of boys and girls together, 461. Brinsley, John, Latin accidence, 311. British America, extent and population, 365. mode of teaching English lan- Chili and West Patagonia, extent and pop., 365. City schools, gradation of, Cities in U. S., population of in 1840 & 1850, 476. Classical education, 67, 86. language, study of, 176. Clement of Ireland, 254. Cleveland, American Association at, in 1851, 6. COLLEGES, improvements practicable in, 174, 269. Increase of number of instructors, 275. Academic degrees, 277. Distribution of honors, 172. Arrangement of, 176. Denominational, 176. American system, 177. Course of instruction, 178, 181, 183. Age of admission, 185. Requirement for admission, 184. Colleges and Universities, outcry against, 164. Common things, teaching of, 629. Whites 5 to 10, 10 to 15, 15 to 20, 367. Libraries, state, college, school, &c., 369. Common school system, 373. State reform school, 373. The deaf and dumb, 373. Mr. Barnard's labors in, 669. Cooke, R. S., on Prof. Hart's account of ligh School, 102. Journal of 4th session of Assoc., 9. Cooper Scientific Union, 652. " engraving of, 551. in family, 112. Correction, paternelle, in the French code, 621. Crimes of children, extent, causes and cure, 345. Curriculum, necessity of 180. Curtis, Joseph, 655. Colleges of present day, 281. Dormitories of, 281. Relations to each other, 282. Council of delegates, 283. Correspondence between, 284. American, 171, 225, 368. "Missouri, 444, Remarks on consolidation of, 471. "Iowa, 444, 375. Upper Canada, 199. Democratic tendency, 164. Poor students, 171, 172. "Illinois, 444, 375. "Indiana, 444, 376. "Michigan, 444. Deaf and dumb, institution for, in Ohio, 444, 452. Debating, essay by Dr. McElligott on, 495. DELAWARE, extent and population, 367. Whites 5 to 10, 10 to 15, 15 to 20, 367. Free schools, 373. Deafmutes and blind, 274. Demetz, report on agricultural colonies, 611. ti The independent teacher, 250. Greek language, 251. Latin language, 251. Study of languages, antiquities, philosophy, interest in female education, 426. Gregory, S., 253. Prejudice of Ecclesiastics, 253. Education, thoughts on, by Prof. Henry, 17. Hartford female seminary, 426. normal school, 428. annals of education, 428. Mental and moral, 35. Goodrich association, 428. Public, among Cherokees, 120. System in Upper Canada, 186. Benefactors of, 202, 551. In Philadelphia, 93. Of daughters, 234. A Debt due to future generations, 238. Among Hebrews, 243, 244, 246. Among ancients, 249. Popular, in Germany and England, 267. Of woman, 567. American lyceum, 428. prison in Hartford, 428. retreat for the insane, 429. educating teachers for the west, 431. |