File:Annual report of the Commission of Soldiers' Orphan Schools of Pennsylvania for the year 1884 (1884) (14774578574).jpg

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Title: Annual report of the Commission of Soldiers' Orphan Schools of Pennsylvania for the year 1884
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Pennsylvania Commission of Soldiers' Orphan Schools for the Year 1884
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Publisher: Lane S Hart, State Printer
Contributing Library: Indiana University of Pennsylvania Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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cientteachers to cooperate with the superintendent, every effort is made notonlv to develop the intellect, but establish in each child a good moral char-acter, and prepare it for usefulness in life, and enable it to be an ornamentto society wherever it may go. We have been renovating the buildings during the spring and summer.We have rolled back the old dining-room,and torn down the kitchen,bake-room,bath-house,and laundry,and put up in their stead a much more com-modious building of brick. The main building is 75: 40 feet, three stories high, in addition to thebasement. On the first floor of this edifice we will hereafter have theschool and recitation-rooms, with a ceiling thirteen feet high and fine ven-tilation, so as to give a sufficiency of pure atmosphere both for teachersand scholars. The second story will contain a private room for the prin-cipal teacher, together with a reading-room and clothing-room for the boys, H 3dm m Ui rm o TJ X > W DC 0 5* ro to to r << tn o 0
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Ex. Doo.) Superintendent of Soldiers Orphans. 37 :iinl also a large dormitory for the smaller-sized hoys; and the third Btorywill contain a room for cadi ol the male assistant teachers and a dormitory*60 40, for the larger-sized boys. A part of the basemenl story will bepartitioned oflf into separate apartments by brick walls so as to affordplay-rooms, one for the boys and one for the girls, during the extremecold weather of winter or when the weather is too inclement for them toenjoy their childish sports on the campus or in their outdoor play-houses.These apartments will have their entrance on different sides of the house.The boys will enter their play-room on the west, and the girls on the eastside of the house. The remainder of this basement will be sub-divided,and a portion will contain a pool lifted for a plunge or shower-bath, asthey may prefer, and the balance for a laundry, if in the course of time itshould be needed. The intermediate building, connecting the old and new buil

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