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Title: Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: California. Legislature
Subjects: Legislative journals
Publisher: Sacramento : State Printing
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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In High Schools the recitation rooms should vary from 16 by 20 to 24 by 30; about one half being 20 by 24. Rooms that are used for such special work as bookkeeping, drawing, domestic science, manual arts and science laboratories must of course be larger, and should vary in size according to the size of the school. Lighting.—The lighting schould [sic] always be from the left side of the pupil, and the window nearest the teacher should be about eight feet from the end. while the last window at the other end might come as near ~ 6 — the rear wall as practicable. This rule, however, can not always followed rigidly without seriously affecting the external design. In the ordinary one-room school often found in the country districts, with three windows on each side and perhaps two in the rear, the defect in lighting can be remedied fairly well by painting the glass of the windows on the pupils right and rear a solid black, thus receiving all of the light from the pupils left. If this is insufficient, the light can be increased by the introduction of prismatic glass in the upper sash of the
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CLOISTERS. Mr. Allen highly recommends cloisters for California schools, tempering the light and affording sheltered places for play. windows at a very small cost. If still more light is needed, leave the black paint off the rear window nearest the left side and cover it with a white Holland shade, which diffuses the glare of light from the window. Where fan ventilation is used all rooms would be best lighted from the north, but where there is no means of mechanical ventilation, the windows should be so placed as to admit sunlight into all rooms at sometime of the day. The best light for a schoolroom is north; next best, northeast; then south, then east, and lastly, west. — 7 — In schoolrooms lighted from one side only there should be two or three high transom panels on the opposite side above the blackboards, which could be opened for direct ventilation across the top of the room, in hot weather, when the windows must be open. These panels should be hinged at the bottom and be of wood or very dark glass that would admit no light.

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