. The American public school; a genetic study of principles, practices, and present problems . ere accordingly primitive, andthe one-room district school will pass into history—letus hope, soon ! — as the typical educational institutionof the period. It was housed in a one-story framebuilding about sixteen feet by twenty-four, designedon the simplest possible architectural lines. Therewere three windows on each side, and an ^^ entry or vestibule in front about eight feet square. Itsfurniture consisted of pine desks, well whittled andcarved. In the center of the room there stood a bigbox stove
. The American public school; a genetic study of principles, practices, and present problems . ere accordingly primitive, andthe one-room district school will pass into history—letus hope, soon ! — as the typical educational institutionof the period. It was housed in a one-story framebuilding about sixteen feet by twenty-four, designedon the simplest possible architectural lines. Therewere three windows on each side, and an ^^ entry or vestibule in front about eight feet square. Itsfurniture consisted of pine desks, well whittled andcarved. In the center of the room there stood a bigbox stove with a cylindrical drum. In the front,a little to one side of the middle, stood the teacher^sdesk, also made of pine boards. It had a cavernousinterior under the lid for storing the school equipment,which consisted of a box of chalk, a six-inch globemade in halves, with the hinge broken, a register, anda five-inch bell with a wooden handle. Along thewall at the left of the teachers desk was the recitationbench, made of a ten-inch pine board, with a leg at 134 THE AMERICAN PUBLIC SCHOOL. 1^ ^SM r^ i ^m ^^^ ^ M ^^■ J cy ^^fe?^^ ^ ~ m ^^H ^•i iiy s ll 2 Ph
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