This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ...article. Philadelphians noticed these, and thought them very pretty; Bostonians noticed, pondered, went home and erected buildings, and now teach, beside the higher principles, in their School of Technology " the elementary branches of most of the trades, as moulding, turning, weaving, carpentering, smithery and the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ...article. Philadelphians noticed these, and thought them very pretty; Bostonians noticed, pondered, went home and erected buildings, and now teach, beside the higher principles, in their School of Technology " the elementary branches of most of the trades, as moulding, turning, weaving, carpentering, smithery and the rest. The students divide their time between these and their books." Is there anything in Philadelphia's climate to prevent her doing the same? III. More school houses. It is rather startling to those who believe that free institutions depend for their life upon free education to find that " while the city's population increases at the rate of about 25,000 annually, the appropriation for school buildings was last increased at the rate of accommodation for 448." But all this is to be changed, as Councils have given at one sweep $300,000 for the erection of new and the repair of old buildings. This is inspiring, and the only suggestion we presume to make is that there may be, in every class-room of every new building, efficient provision for the escape of foul and the entrance of fresh air. This is, of all architectural problems, perhaps the most difficult; but its importance is so great that if good ventilation is to be found anywhere in the world it should be found here. We had better starve a child's brain than taint its Wood. That there is need of such a suggestion is shown by the testimony of one lady whose daughter attended a handsome new school in the upper part of the city: "She had been a healthy child before going there, but she soon began to have headaches, which grew so frequent that I went to the school to see if the cause might be there. I found that the ventilators amounted, as usual, to nothing, and that th...
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