Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1883 — School-Room Ventilation. [ARTICLE]

School-Room Ventilation.

A medical commission was appointed some time ago in Germany to study and investigate certain questions relating to the construction of school buildings. In the matter of ventilation, the commission states that each pupil in a school ought to have 2,120 cnbio feet of fresh air each hour, at the least. It is stated also that light from the rear is admissible, but it is not recommended, and windows facing the pupils are prohibited. Under ordinary circumstances there is no accounting for names, but there is a clergyman in Illinois bearing the name of Toof, in whose oase it looks as if he dr some one of his ancestors had become weary of a somewhat lowly appellation, and had reversed it.