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the city schools, subject to approval by the Normal School Board. current expenses of this school are to be paid by the city of Terre Ha This school is to cost the Normal School Board nothing, save the expense of providing rooms sufficient for its use.

The Normal School proper is, as is generally understood, a school in which pupils are taught, so nearly as may be, the philosophy and methods of education. Incidental to this, they will be taught the subject matter of the sciences, or branches of learning under consideration

PLAN OF BUILDING.

Such being substantially the proposed organization of the school, a plan of building has been adopted, conforming as nearly as practicable, to such propose organization; and in its interior arrangement it is intended to be second to to educational structure of the kind in America.

As an institution designed to educate teachers for our common schools, it s intended to be complete in its character.

One important feature of the plan is the facility which it affords the Normal School or teacher-pupil to combine acquired theory with practice. One entire story of the building is designed to accommodate the Model and Training De partments, which are in their organization separate and distinct branches of the school, and each designed to accomplish a specific purpose in the course c training to teachership.

ARRANGEMENT OF ROOMS, STYLE, ETC.

The arrangement of the first floor consists, first, of a large session room 60 × 70, four recitation rooms 21 × 221, and two reference libraries 13 x 13. for the Model High School; second, of one room, 224 × 30, and another 22×40 for the Model Intermediate School; third, of one room 22×30, and one room 22 × 40 for the Model Primary School, each of these three classes being provided with dress rooms. The first story has, besides, a reception room 17 × 20, and a teachers' dressing-room of the same size All the rooms are entered from spacious halls ten and fifteen feet wide, and the three classes are so arranged as to have separate ingress and egress for the pupils. The Model Intermediate and Model Primary Schools are to be training schools. (The High School is not a training school.) The second story, entirely devoted to the Normal School proper, has a session room 60 × 70, and eight recitation rooms varying in size from 21 × 22 to 22 × 40, grouped on either side of the session room. Two reference libraries 13 x 13, and two dress rooms 11 x 25, a faculty room 17 × 20, and a reception room 17 × 20, complete this story.

The third story contains two Society Halls, 22×34; oue Music Hall, 22×30; a Library, 22 × 30; a general Museum, composed of three rooms one of 20 × 50, and the other two 224 × 40, and a large Lecture Room. 70 × 85, which, through double doors, may be set open with the Museum rooms, and secure an arrangement for lecturing second to none in this country; two dress ing-rooms and two store-rooms complete the third story.

The Normal School department, besides the rooms in the second and third stories, has a laboratory and recitation room on chemistry, and a gymnasium in the basement story.

The heating and ventilating of all the rooms in the entire building is aimed to be as complete and efficient as may be desired. Provision is made to set in operation as many as eight heating and ventilating apparatuses, which will all be located in the basement story, together with ample store-rooms for fuel, to which the coal will be distributed by small cars on rail.

The basement contains further, the lodging of a janitor, and two spacious rooms 22×40, to be provided with double sets of water-closets of the most

approved plan, together with artificial ventilation, and pure water supplied by a gas engine.

The ingress and egress of the school is such as the law indicates now in some States for public buildings in which large numbers of persons may assemble. Thus the first floor is provided with three large entries, while the basement has five, all accessible from the stories above. But the several entry doors answer at the same time for the perfect working of the several classes, and the large number of pupils the building will accommodate. Four flights of spacious stairways are in immediate proximity to these doorways, and by means of halls communicate to all parts of the building.

The height of the basement is ten feet in the clear; the first and second stories sixteen feet each, and the third story fourteen feet on the wings and twenty feet in the central part, containing the museum-room and the lecture-room.

The appearance of the Normal School will be one of substantial design, as its construction is aimed to be. The style may be called Gothic; as far as the pointed windows and doorways and the equilateral mediæval gables indicate, while other details and the outline of the roof would designate it to pertain to the epoch of Renuissan. But the whole design has its own peculiar style, and such a one as the plan or the internal arrangement called for-this plan being the correct requirement of what was considered the best arrangement for the Normal School. This was a form and an outline different from any building of the kind originated-broad, deep and high. To a front of one hundred and ninety feet there is a depth of one hundred and fifteen feet, while the several high stories give it such altitude as to tower far above any building in this city. The main entry, surmounted with a wheel window, lighting the second story hall, a triple window in the third story, and a gable in the roof present a height of ninety feet above the ground line. The flank entrances, North and South, and the East elevation, are surmounted with similar gables, but smaller in size than the main front gable; the whole displaying that unity in design that beautifies construction.

But what gives the appearance of the structure the most lively air, and which takes considerably from the ponderous form inevitably incident to the peculiar internal arrangement of the school, are two light, elegant towers in the front, built or growing with the structure to a height of one hundred and thirty-two feet, and the effect is completed by the transformation of the shafts at the corners of the building into ventilating minarets, and the ornation of three crests on the roof, which form unsuspected powerful ventilating ejectors into which all the ventilating ducts discharge.

CONSTRUCTION.

Beginning with the foundation, the strength of the house is made adequate to its height and proportion.

The material is hard-burned brick, laid in cement mortar, eight feet in height from the footings. A base course to all the exterior walls, nine inches thick by two feet six inches in height, of hard limestone, protects the wall at the frost line. The cement foundation of the inside walls is generally three feet nine inches in height; and the width of the foundation at the base varies from four to five feet. A few foundation walls are less, and others more, in points bearing gables and towers.

The thinnest basement walls are nine inches, and the heaviest two feet ten inches. The exterior walls are generally two feet two inches.

The first story walls are from seventeen to twenty-one inches thick, the towers two feet two inches. The inside walls in this story are generally thirteen and seventeen inches in thickness.

The second story exterior walls are generally seventeen inches, a few parts being twenty-one inches in thickness.

The inside walls are the same in thickness as in the first story.

The third story walls vary from twelve to seventeen inches in thickness up to the wall plates.

The exterior of the building is to be faced with hard-pressed smooth brick of uniform red color, laid with flat tucked joints and Boston Bond.

The stone work is of hard limestone to the basement and first story door sills, and of Elliottsville limestone to all the other parts. The whole of substantial dimensions and bold design.

The joists of the basement and first floor are of white oak; all others of poplar. The roof is entirely of poplar, except the main post of the large trusses over the lecture-room, which is of oak. The floors are all of oak, except the third story, which is of poplar.

The wainscoting, doors and windows are of poplar. The stairs are to be of hard wood, and the steps will be covered with perforated sheet iron. The roof is to be slated, the cornice to be of galvanized iron, and the gutters generally of copper and improved combination.

HEATING AND VENTILATING.

The importance and difficulty of comfortably heating and properly ventilating a school building of such large proportions, has not been overlooked or neg lected by the Board of Trustees.

When planning the building, natural ventilation was first considered, and as a preliminary step, a height of ceiling established of sixteen feet for the first and second stories, and fourteen and twenty for the third story, the higher ceil ing, in the latter, being in the lecture-room. By reference to the plans it will be seen that the building is traversed in its whole length North and South by a hall or passage ten feet in width, in the basement, first and second stories, and partly in the third story. The front hall, vestibules and staircases are in open connection with this main passage in the several stories; the arrangement giving access to the inside of the building, of air from all sides, without its passing directly through the outside windows into the school-rooms.

The front, flank and rear doors, eight in number, admit air into the halls and staircases, regulated by dumb balanced fly-doors, and by the ventilators in the ceiling of the third story hall; this causes a removal of the air of this large reservoir from which the school-rooms draw their supply through transoms 3x3 over all doors and pivot sash windows located eight feet from the floor, all of which is accelerated by upright air ducts ejecting their contents by the ventilating crests of the roof at one hundred feet from the ground line of the building.

To illustrate the artificial heating and ventilation in this building, it will be sufficient to take as a sample the large session room on the second floor. From two furnaces located in the basement, six hot air ducts built in the walls, with an aggregate section of six hundred and sixty square inches, and carried up to the ceiling of the second story, or a vertical height of forty feet from the heating surface, discharge, through six branches six inches in diameter each, and together through thirty-six registers eight by twelve inches, located and distributed uniformly over the ceiling, the fresh, warm air. This warm air is brought downward by means of six upright ventilating ducts, of an aggregate section of about one thousand inches, opening with six branches, each six inches in diameter, provided with registers located in the floor between joists and carried up to a height of one hundred feet from the furnaces to ejectors.

Good results are expected of this arrangement of heating and ventilating. The contractors for brick work (Mr. Thomas Miles of Laporte and Mr. J. B. Hedden of Terre Haute,) are rapidly pushing forward the work to completion, and in the best possible style of workmanship.

As a whole, the structure will be worthy the State of Indiana, and will show how important she considers the instruction and education of her people. The estimated cost of the structure is one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Con tracts actually awarded to the amount of ninety thousand dollars, present little differences with the estimates. The building will be completed in about fifteen months.

SOUTH CAROLINA STATE NORMAL SCHOOL,

AT CHARLESTON.

THE State Normal School of South Carolina was established in connection with a Public High School for Girls in the city of Charleston, by act of the Legislature, passed Dec., 1857. The cost of the buildings and furniture was $30,700, of which $18,755 was paid by the State, and $11,945 was contributed by individuals, principally of Charleston.

The school was opened, May, 1859, with fifty-one pupils, and continued in successful operation except as it was affected by the War, until August, 1864. During its continuance the school was very popular, both with the people and with teachers. For five years it received an annual appropriation of five thousand dollars from the Legislature; when this appropriation was exhausted, in 1864, the condition of the country was such that it was not renewed, and the school was suspended for lack of means of support. The whole number of students connected with this Normal School during the five years of its operations was 481. The largest number in attendance at one time was 191.

The following were the requisitions for admission :

1. Applicants must be at least fifteen years of age, of unquestionable moral character, and in sound bodily health.

2. They must sustain a good examination in the following subjects, viz.: Orthography.-Oral and written. Reading.-With facility, either Prose or Poetry. Geography.-Geographical Definitions, with Modern Geography. Grammar.-Definitions and Rules of Syntax, with ability to parse plain English sentences. Arithmetic.-Numeration, Simple and Compound Numbers, Reduction, Common and Decimal Fractions, Simple and Compound Proportion, and Computation of Interest. History.-Of United States, with some knowledge of General History. A legible handwriting will be required, with some practice in English Composition.

3. They must desire to qualify themselves for teaching in this State.

4. Each applicant shall present on the first day of the term, a certificate, signed by a majority of the delegation from the district in which she resides. Applicants for admission to the High School Department will be excused from Provisions 3 and 4, and from examination in Simple and Compound Proportion, and Computation of Interest. In all other respects the requirements for admission to both departments are similar.

Should candidates from the different Congressional districts, out of the city of Charleston, be found incompetent to enter the Normal Department at once, they will be placed in the High School Department, provided they are qualified therefor, and comply with Provisions 3 and 4, above named.

The course extended through three years, and embraced the branches of a thorough English education, including French, Drawing, Music, the Theory and Practice of Teaching, Lectures on Education and the Details of School Management.

Measures are in progress to reopen the institution both as a High School for the city and a Normal School for the State.

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