Stewart's Guide-Book to the Queen's Scholarship and Certificate Examinations, and to Public Elementary Schools and Training Schools

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ...opening by a swing pane at the top; further ventilation was afforded by the chimneys, until these were closed on account of the change in the heating apparatus. (6) The vitiated air, if warm, would rise and escape through the ventilator and the upper opening in the windows. If cold, or if cooled by the inflowing air from the windows, it would sink to the ground, and be swept towards the fireplace by the currents of cold air coming under the doors; most of it would then be heated by the fire and carried up the chimney. When the pipes were substituted for open fires, the latter means of escape was closed, and the room was then rendered perceptibly more close and depressing. (c) The prevention of chill from draughts of the cold outside air, while at the same time a sufficient supply is obtained to keep the room fresh. The children are sometimes insufficiently or unsuitably clad; sometimes they come from close or over-heated homes; frequently they are (through ignorance of the good effect of bathing) only half washed. These causes render them very sensitive to cold, and make it difficult to freshen the room without doing them harm. r (This question is likely to be imperfectly answered, owing to the prevalent error that vitiated--that is, spoiled--air is necessarily warm and will therefore ascend. A room may be very cold and yet close). (8.) (a) First, because erasures spoil the surface of the paper; hence the correction will probably be indistinct, and therefore confusing or useless. Second, because it is well that the mistake should be left, that the examiner may see its extent, and judge as to its cause; it is a kind of frank owning of error, while an erasure has a timid, underhand appearance. (1) To show the number of children who have...