An ideal school; by Search Preston Willis 1853-

Author:Search, Preston Willis, 1853- [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Schools. [from old catalog], Teaching
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Published: 1901-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

In the plans for our quadrangle school for children of the play school, and also for those in the elementary school, there is provision in the central building for the within-doors play room necessary for unfavourable weather. In our central building in the intermediate

and high school quadrangles were located also the gym« nasiums^ with separate departments for the sexes in the high school. Connected with the gymnasium should be the school baths and the swimming pools^ and also the mechanical room. The school bath at Brookline, Mass.,* costing $50,000, is the finest thing of the kind in the United States. The great swimming pool, surrounded with its individual baths of all kinds, each sex having its assigned days, is a revelation to all interested in the possibilities of this desirable adjunct of the school.

The director of the physical department should also have charge of the cleansing of the buildings, the analysis of air and water, the insistence on individual drink-ing-cups and individual towels, the prescription of food, the medical inspection of the schools, the destruction of all books exposed to contagion, the quarantining of special cases, the suggestions to the home concerning health questions, the separation and special treatment

* The Brookline baths consist of a large swimming tank for general purposes, a smaller tank in the instmction room, a number of rain baths of the Gegenstrom pattern, dressing rooms, director's rooms, waiting rooms, ladies' hair-dressing rooms, etc. The swimming tanks are lined with white glazed brick with floors of light adamantine mosaic. The main tank is 80 feet long and 26 feet wide, has an arerage depth of 4i feet, and 42 surrounding dressing rooms. There is an abundance of light and sunshine. The smaller pool is 22 feet long and 10 feet wide, and has an average depth of 3^ feet, 6 large dressing rooms, and a rain bath. The water, constantly changing, is kept at a temperature of 78", the temperature of the room being several degrees higher. The director is a graduate doctor, and is assisted by a competent lady instructor.

defectives, the limitation of school exercises, and ler questions pertaining to the children's health. Concerning the treatment of the eye, is it altogether irild speculation to say that, as evolution has given the eye in its present shape and character in response

CAUTION.

Reader, yoar eyesight is worth more to you than any information you are likely to gain from this book, however valuable it may be. You are therefore earnestly cautioned —

1. To be sure that you have sufficient light, and that your position be such that you not only avoid the direct rays upon your eyes, but that you also avoid the angle of reflection. In writing, the light should be received over the left shoulder.

2. That you avoid a stooping position and a forward inclination of the head. Hold the book up. Sit erect also when you write.

8. That at brief intervals you rest the eyes by looking off and away from the book for a few moments.

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