 On a perch, forming a triangle with a corner of the room, sat a cock and two hens ; under a stump bed immediately beneath, was a dog-kennel, in the occupation of three black terriers, whose barking, added to the noise of the children and the cackling...  Essays on Education - Page 296by Central Society of Education - 1837Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Dick - 1838 - 522 pages
...pupils in any way? — No, I never saw anything of the sort. Chairman.] Do you recollect this case : " In a garret, up three pair of dark broken stairs,...forty children, in the compass of ten feet by nine " ?— I do. It is stated, " On a perch, forming a triangle with the corner of the room, sat a cock... | |
 | Massachusetts. Board of Education - Education - 1839 - 698 pages
...Parliamentary committees on education describes the condition of a schoolroom in the following words : " In a garret, up three pair of dark, broken stairs, was a common day-school, with forty children, in a compass of ten feet by nine. On a perch, forming a triangle with... | |
 | William Maxwell Gunn - Religious education - 1840 - 496 pages
...possibly mean. The generality of teachers, indeed, entertain very imperfect notions on the subject. " In a garret, up three pair of dark broken stairs,...common day school with forty children, in the compass often feet by nine. On a plank, forming a triangle with the garner of the room, sat a cock and two... | |
 | 1841 - 524 pages
...'In a garret, up three pair of dark broken stairs (in Liverpool), was a common day-school, with forly children, in the compass of ten feet by nine. On a...corner of the room, sat a cock and two hens; under a stump bed, immediately beneath, was a dog-kennel, in the occupation of three black terriers, whose... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1841 - 524 pages
...school. 'In a garret, up three pair of dark broken stairs (in Liverpool), was a common day-school, with forty children, in the compass of ten feet by...On a perch, forming a triangle with the corner of ihe room, sat a cock and t«o hens; under a stump bed, immediately beneath, was a dog-kennel, in Ihe... | |
 | Edinburgh sabbath school teachers' union - 1865 - 318 pages
...children usually attending were detained at home by such complaints. " In a garret, up three pair of stairs, was a common day school, with forty children, in the compass of ten feet by nine : over a porch, forming a triangle with the corner of the room, sat a cock and two hens ; under a stump-bed... | |
 | Massachusetts. Board of Education - Education - 1844 - 144 pages
...parliamentary committees on education describes the condition of a schoolroom in the following words : " In a garret, up three pair of dark, broken stairs, was a common day-school, with forty children, in a compass of ten feet by nine. On a perch, forming a triangle with... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - American periodicals - 1845 - 550 pages
...dayschool, with forty children, in a compass of ten feet by nine. On a perch, forming a triangle with a corner of the room, sat a cock and two hens ; under a stump bed immediately beneath, was a dog-kennel, in the occupation of three black terriers, whose barking,... | |
 | William Maxwell Gunn - Education and the State - 1846 - 474 pages
...possibly mean. The generality of teachers, indeed, entertain very imperfect notions on the subject. " In a garret, up three pair of dark broken stairs,...children, in the compass of ten feet by nine. On a plank, forming a triangle with the corner of the room, sat a cock and two hens. Under a stump bed,... | |
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