Prize Designs for Rural School Buildings: With Illustration and Discriptions (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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It is apparent that an increased interest is being felt in many parts of the country relative to the school building, and with the desire for a pleasing general appearance of the school edifice, the subjects of lighting and heating (things too long neglected) have come to have a greater importance. These are discussed in a plain and practical way in this little volume, and it is believed that the suggestions will prove really helpful to school officials.

As is shown in this volume, there is no doubt of the fact that much ill-health is to be traced to confinement in poorly ventilated schoolhouses. Children who begin attending school at six years of age continue until they are sixteen, thus spending ten years in the schoolroom. The school term is now in the cities nearly ten months long. Therefore the school official who is charged with the duty of erecting a new building should resolve that it be properly ventilated.

The subject of lighting is also an important one. The old-fashioned schoolhouse had windows on all four sides; valuable as light is, cross-rays are irritating and injurious.

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