Rural School Architecture: With IllustrationsU.S. Government Printing Office, 1880 - 106 pages |
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Page 92 - ... lime, and clean, sharp sand, well mixed with a half bushel of best long cattle or goat's hair to each cask of lime, thoroughly worked and stacked at least one week before using-, in some sheltered place, but not in the cellar of the house ; all to be well trowelled, straightened with a straight-edge and made perfectly true, and brought well up to the grounds. The skim coat to be of No. I Extra [Rockland] lime, slaked at least seven days before using, and washed [beach] sand, and well floated....
Page 26 - The schoolroom should have its longer axis directed east and west, and should be lighted by windows occupying nearly the whole length of the north and south walls. The entrances, which must be separate for the two sexes, should be so planned that both boys and girls may be under the eye of the teacher in entering and leaving the room. They may be in the wall behind him, a very common position, but are better either in the side or opposite end walls, so that, without turning his head, his glance may...
Page 34 - Corner urinals are in some respects the best, and a large number may be set in a small space by placing them on opposite sides of a zigzag partition. Whatever kind is used, the lipped pattern should be chosen. This saves the dripping and consequent foulness inevitable with troughs, or even with urinals of the ordinary shape. The screens should be 6 feet in height or more. In very many delicate and nervous boys nature refuses to perform its usual functions, however great the necessity, in the presence...
Page 92 - The skim coat is to be made with extra (BocMand) lime, slaked at least seven days before mixing, and washed (beach) sand, and well floated. Point up with lime and hair mortar around window and door frames; patch up and repair all the plastering at the completion of the building, and leave all perfect.
Page 97 - ... be added to or deducted from the amount of the contract, as the case may be, by a fair and reasonable valuation.
Page 65 - The building is warmed by two furnaces. It is ventilated by six flues from the hall on the lower floor, six from each of the school-rooms on the second floor, and one from each of the recitation rooms. Each of these flues has two registers; one near the floor, and the other near the ceiling. The two principal school-rooms are furnished with double windows. The institution is provided with ample play-grounds and garden plots, back of the building and at the ends.
Page 3 - It has been thought well in this connection to add in an appendix a brief selection from School-Houses and Cottages for the People of the South, by C. Thurston Chase, respecting the construction of log school-houses.
Page 96 - ... the said party of the second part from all actions, claims, suits, and damages by reason thereof. In consideration whereof the said party of the second part covenants and agrees to and with the said party of the first part to...
Page 97 - Neither the whole nor any portion of this contract shall be assigned or sublet by the party of the second part without the written consent of the party of the first part.
Page 13 - For writing or drawing, the light should come from the left, not exactly at the side, but a little in front ; then neither the head, the right hand, nor the pen will cast a shadow on the paper. For reading, the light may come from either side, indifferently, but should be a little back, that it may shine brightly on the page. For any purpose, the window must not be far off, or the light will be too dim, even though it may come from the right quarter. In arranging the more important schools, containing...