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Identifier: schoolarchitectu00bruc (find matches)
Title: School architecture; a handy manual for the use of architects and school authorities
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Bruce, William George, 1856-1949 Bruce, William Conrad, 1882- Bruce, Frank Milton, 1885- (from old catalog)
Subjects: School buildings
Publisher: Milwaukee, Johnson service company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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favor the permanent use of bicycles a small roomfor their storage during school hours may provedesirable. Permanent bicycle racks are the onlyrequisites. Doors and windows should be fittedwith good locks. Commercial Rooms.—Commercial rooms ofhigh schools are usually composed of a type-writer practice room and as many other rooms asmay be needed to accommodate students of short-hand, bookkeeping and commercial law. Theymay be placed on the north side of the buildingin sound-deadened rooms. Special desks andtables for the manipulation of bulky bookkeepingbooks are desirable. Domestic Science Rooms.—Domestic science,the companion study of manual training, is likethe latter making slow but steady progress. Inelementary schools it more often means one cook-ing room for the study of food preparation anda classroom for the study of sewing. In largerschools the course has been elaborated until itrequires a sewing room, dressmaking room, cook-ing room, pantry, dining room, supply room, 107
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108 School Architecture teachers room and model rooms completelyequipped with all the furnishings of a home. Thegeneral provisions depend entirely on the amountof time and attention given the subject. In general, domestic science departments arelocated in the basement or ground floor at an op-posite extreme to the manual training department.The rooms may be finished like classrooms withthe exception of oil paint for the walls. Specialwork tables about 36 inches high and 26 incheswide, accessible from two sides and fitted withcupboards for various cooking utensils and aBunsen burner for each pupil ought to be sup-plied. Besides these the room will require ward-robes for each pupil, an ample sink with cold andhot water, a bookcase, and a refrigerator. All inall, the room will be large or small according tothe number of pupils to be provided for and theliberality of the appropriations. Drawing Rooms.—Drawing rooms intendedfor either freehand or mechanical drawing followgenerally the ru

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