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Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-13

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9780265260142

Excerpt from Twenty-Ninth Annual Report of the Board of Education: For the Year Ending June 30, 1883 The corner rooms of these buildings are provided with six windows each, as in the best old buildings. This gives a lighting surface of less than 16 per cent. Of the floor space. The old plan was to place three windows on each of the two exposed sides, so that an equal volume of light would be received from the left and from behind the pupils. In the new build ings the windows at the left of the pupils have been increased to four, and those at the back reduced to two - one of the latter being placed at the right hand corner, the other at the left hand corner of the room. This arrangement admits more light where it is wanted, from the left, and less where it is not wanted, from the back of the pupil. It would be a further improvement to take out the rear window near the corner of the building (rear, right hand corner, looking from the teacher's platform) and put it in the side of the room to the left of the pupils, to increase the light where it is required, and remove it from where it is harmful rather than otherwise. The other rear window, that in the left hand corner, is useful since it throws light down the side of the room farthest from the side windows - a zone that in a dark day needs more light than can be supplied by four or even five side windows. The five Grammar School buildings named are all to be heated by Ruttan furnaces. This is a system of heat ing for school buildings which, if successful in heating, makes fairly good ventilation an unavoidable occur rence. Hence these school houses will be much better ventilated than any of our old buildings heated with furnaces of older patterns. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.