Old-time schools and school-books . A Schoolboy. 132 Old-time Schools and School-books. A Schoolgirl the small size of the schoolrooms as compared withthe number of pupils they had to of the rooms were less than seven feet high ;often they had broken windows, clapboards hanging ? <^M^ffr 1 1 « i i The District Schools 133 loose, props up at the blinds to keep them in place,stoves without doors, leaky roofs, patches of plaster-ing missing and the rest of the plastering muchmarred and begrimed ; crevices in the floor admittedany quantity of cold air, while the woodwork of the
Old-time schools and school-books . A Schoolboy. 132 Old-time Schools and School-books. A Schoolgirl the small size of the schoolrooms as compared withthe number of pupils they had to of the rooms were less than seven feet high ;often they had broken windows, clapboards hanging ? <^M^ffr 1 1 « i i The District Schools 133 loose, props up at the blinds to keep them in place,stoves without doors, leaky roofs, patches of plaster-ing missing and the rest of the plastering muchmarred and begrimed ; crevices in the floor admittedany quantity of cold air, while the woodwork of thedesks and walls was cut and marked with all sortsof images, some of which would make heathensblush. The required studies now were reading, spelling,writing, arithmetic, geography, and grammar. Alge-bra and even Latin and French were attempted inan occasional school if the teacher was equal to with all this broadening in studies and all theadvances in school-books, and in spite of the correctEnglish the books were supposed to impart, thescholars in their daily conversatio
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