School Architecture: Or, Contributions to the Improvement of School-houses in the United StatesC. B. Norton, 1854 - 464 σελίδες |
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... present the following summary * of the Principles of School Architecture , which the author of that work has drawn up at their request , as presenting the result of his observations and practical knowledge in this department of ...
... present the following summary * of the Principles of School Architecture , which the author of that work has drawn up at their request , as presenting the result of his observations and practical knowledge in this department of ...
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... present with much hesitation , the result of my examinations as to several hundred school - houses in dif- ferent parts of the State . I will say , generally , that the location of the school - house , instead of being retired , shaded ...
... present with much hesitation , the result of my examinations as to several hundred school - houses in dif- ferent parts of the State . I will say , generally , that the location of the school - house , instead of being retired , shaded ...
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... present vastly fewer attractions , in point of comfortable arrangement and tastefulness , than are seen about our poor - houses , our jails , and our state penitentiary ! This remark is too true of the school - houses in this society ...
... present vastly fewer attractions , in point of comfortable arrangement and tastefulness , than are seen about our poor - houses , our jails , and our state penitentiary ! This remark is too true of the school - houses in this society ...
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... present state , will not deserve the credit . " - Enfield . " Our school - houses are in a bad condition . Look into the school some warm , comfortable day , when the children are more likely to be in at- tendance , and if you please ...
... present state , will not deserve the credit . " - Enfield . " Our school - houses are in a bad condition . Look into the school some warm , comfortable day , when the children are more likely to be in at- tendance , and if you please ...
Σελίδα 23
... presents the same unsightly ap- pearance which it has in years past ; and from the height to which the writing desks , and slabs used for seats , are elevated , some persons would naturally infer that they were originally designed for a ...
... presents the same unsightly ap- pearance which it has in years past ; and from the height to which the writing desks , and slabs used for seats , are elevated , some persons would naturally infer that they were originally designed for a ...
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accommodate aisles apparatus arrangement attic basement blackboard Board Boston boys brick cast iron ceiling cellar chairs class-rooms close cold air Committee Common Schools constructed convenient Culver's CURTAIN diagram diameter districts doors eight entrance entry erected exercises feet high feet long feet wide fitted floor flues frame front furnace furnished gallery girls grade ground heat High School hung inches inches thick inches wide inclined plane infant inside instruction iron lampblack lathed and plastered Lecture light lower main building monitorial system Normal School occupied pipe placed PLANS AND DESCRIPTION play-ground Primary School principal Privies Prussia public schools pupils rear recitation rooms recitation-rooms Rhode Island roof scholars school-room seats and desks second story side slate smoke pipe space stairs stove street studies teacher third story tion town tubes ventiducts ventilation walls warmed width wood yard
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Σελίδα 172 - ... and it is further ordered, that where any town shall increase to the number of one hundred families or householders they shall set up a grammar school, the master thereof being able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the university...
Σελίδα 217 - ... inexpensive scale, the walls of the school-rooms were often adorned with cheap engravings and lithographs, of distinguished men, of birds, beasts, and fishes ; — and, in many of them, a cabinet of natural history had been commenced. And throughout all Prussia and Saxony, a most delightful impression was left upon my mind by the character of the persons whose portraits were thus displayed. Almost without exception, they were likenesses of good men rather than of great ones, — frequently of...
Σελίδα 460 - The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance, and of my cup, Thou maintainest my lot : and, on the justest grounds, he immediately adds, The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places ; yea, I have a goodly heritage.
Σελίδα 383 - Varnish should contain only sufficient gam to hold the ingredients together, and confine the Composition to the Board. The thinner the mixture, the better. The Lampblack should first be ground with a small quantity of Alcohol, or SpiritVarnish, to free it from lumps.
Σελίδα 172 - Purmont was entreated to become school-master for the teaching and nurturing of children with us," and the first records of the town contain a sum voted for the •• maintenance of a free school-master.
Σελίδα 459 - ... every question of figures which comes up in practice — I call this a good education. And if you add the ability to write pure grammatical English, I regard it as an excellent education. These are the tools. You can do much with them, but you are helpless without them. They are the foundation ; and unless you begin with these, all your flashy attainments, a little geology, and all other ologies and osophies, are ostentatious rubbish.
Σελίδα 125 - ... of the whole number. When the class is large, there is a spirit, a glow, a struggle which can never be infused or called forth in a small class. Whatever time is spent upon a few, which could have been as profitably spent on a larger number, is a loss of power and time to the extent of the number who were not thus benefited. The recitations of a large class must be more varied, both as to order and methods, so as to reach those whose attention would wander if not under the pressure of constant...
Σελίδα 121 - ... latter always depending on the earlier, and all intended to be conducted on the same general principles, and by methods varying with the work to be done, and the progress already made. With...
Σελίδα 377 - While reading, as the eye rises to the top of the right-hand page, the right hand is brought to the position seen in Fig. 4 ; and, with the forefinger under the leaf, the hand is slid down to the lower corner, and retained there during the reading of this page, as seen in Fig. 6. This also is the position in which the book is to be held when about to be closed ; in doing which, the left hand, being carried up to the side, supports the book firmly...
Σελίδα 122 - In the mean time the order of the school must be maintained, and the general business must be going forward. Little children without any authorized employment for their eyes and hands, and ever active curiosity, must be made to sit still, while every muscle is aching from suppressed activity...