isa-normaladvance-1903-00085

Description:	THE NORMAL ADVANCE.85Michigan. Bibliography of Masterpiece Reading in Grammar Grades. Apply to the State Superintendent, Grand Rapids, Mich.Wisconsin. List of books for township libraries.Apply to the State Superintendent, Madison, Wisconsin.Sargent, J. F. Reading for the Young. Library Bureau, Chicago, Illinois.The apparatus consisted of one good set of wellpreserved political maps in a case a political mapof Vigo county, Vermillion and Park counties, theUnited States and the World, somewhat out of repair, and a globe in the same condition one ofthose artificial highly colored worse than uselesscharts so often found in rural schools* and an unabridged dictionary and holder, and a few otherminor pieces.The blackboard was of slate and somewhat outof repair.As to possessions in the way of pictures, the following only were found, all being inartistic andof a grade of cheap chromos:The Good Shepherd and a small colored pictureof George Washington, and a highly colored picture of a lady in full dress.Prior to the agreement no janitor was employed. The work of attending to the fires andof keeping the room in order wras done either bythe teacher or by some boy attending the school.In the latter case a small sum was paid for suchservices by the teacher.Since the organization of the school as a training school, the fence has been carefully repairedand whitewashed, the arrangements for heatinghave been changed, the room now being heatedaccording to the Gravity System. The arrangement for this work is shown in the accompanyingplan.When the fire is built in the stove, the fresh airinlet and registers in the floor are closed and thethree slides in the lower part of the steel jacketwhich surrounds the stove are opened. The coldair is taken from the floor of the room, heated anddischarged at the top of the stove. When theproper temperature is obtained, the slides in thejacket are closed and the fresh air inlet and registers are opened. The fresh air from without, afterpassing between the hot stove and the jacket, ascends to the ceiling, diffuses and passes to all partsof the room. As this warm air is followed by otherwaves of hot air, it descends to the floor, passesthrough the registers and, after sweeping acrossthe floor of the room from the under side, ascendsthrough the foul air flue to the outside.By this system all parts of the room are evenlyheated and a supply of fresh air is obtained without the opening of windows or doors.The passage of the air from the room throughthe registers and across the house under the floorin its course to the foul air flue warms the floorfrom underneath, so that the room is comfortablewith a smaller fire than in the case where this system is not used. The saving in the cost of fueland stoves, due to this fact, will in a few yearsreimburse a township for the expense of equippingthe house with this system.The important and most expensive parts whichwill be required in remodeling a house so that theGravity System may be used are a double flueand a steel jacket for the stove. The fresh air inlet and registers are inexpensive and the cost ofclosing all openings in the foundation will besmall. The entire cost need not exceed forty dollars.The house has been well painted upon the exterior and interior by skillful painters, all necessary repairs to the window panes done by skillfulglaziers, and the windows protected by good wirescreening. The room has been artistically re-papered by paperhangers well qualified to selectand arrange the paper in harmony with the requirements of the room good slate blackboardinghas been provided, more complete and better accommodations for hats, cloaks, dinner buckets, etc.have been provided the outbuildings for the girlsand for the boys have been completely separatedand surrounded by fence screens the old desksthat were scarred and out of repair have been replaced by new desks, in so far as necessary, andall of the desks have been adjusted in size to thesizes of the different pupils. The teacher has beenprovided with a larger and more convenient table
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Collection:	Indiana State University Archives

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