STATE NORMAL SCHOOL MAYVILLE, NORTH DAKOTA THE BI-MONTHLY BULLETIN VOL. I OCTOBER, 1913 NO. 6 ILLUSTRATED DESCRIPTION ' OF THE M0D[L RURAL SCHOOL BUILDING AT THE MAYVILLE NORMAL SCHOOL THE WINTER TERM BEGINS TUESDAY, JAN. 6, 1914 Published in February, April, June, August, October, and December by the State Normal School at Mayville, N. D., and entered at the Mayville Postoffice November 15, 1912, as second class matter under act of August 24, 1912. IMPORTANT DATES AND EVENTS 1913 The Fall Term began Tuesday, September 30 The Fall Term ends Thursday, December 18 1914 The Winter Term begins .. The Winter Term ends The Spring Term begins The Spring Term ends The Summer School begins The Summer School ends ... ...Tuesday, January 6 ....Thursday, March 26 Tuesday, April 7 Thursday, June 25 Thursday, July 2 .Wednesday, August 12 COMMENCEMENT WEEK Baccalaureate Service Sunday Evening, June 21 Senior Chapel Monday Morning, June 22 Commencement Party Monday Evening, June 22 Senior Class Exercises Tuesday Evening, June 23 Senior Class Picnic Wednesday, June 24 Recital and Reception to the Senior Class,.... Wednesday Evening, June 24 Outdoor Sports Thursday Afternoon, June 25 Alumni Banquet Thursday Afternoon, June 25 Commencement Exercises Thursday Evening, June 25 HOLIDAYS General Election and Thanksgiving Days Eighteen days at Christmas and New Year’s Lincoln’s birthday Eleven days between the Winter and Spring Terms MODEL RURAL SCHOOL BUILDING State Normal School. Mayville, N. D. SIDE ELEVATION PUEPOSE In its new model rural school building, Avhich has just been completed, the Mayville Normal School tries to illustrate in all essential respects, taking into account the modern practical de- mands upon education, the best that is practicable and feasible in a typical, well-to-do country locality in the way of a building for either an ungraded, one-teacher school or a partly graded school of about two to three teachers, the latter of which will be, for a long time to come, the most common type of consolidated rural school. COST The total cost, without any equipment, has been four thousand dollars, somewhat more than it would have been, if the building could have been put up at a time of the year when labor was not scarcest and wages highest. If communities should sometimes feel that in either the con- struction of new buildings or the modification of old ones, they cannot afford to follow closely the plans of this one, they can, at least, incorporate some of its good features. DIMENSIONS The ground dimensions, exclusive of porch and rear entrance, are 38 ft. x 34 ft. and twenty to twenty-four pupils are easily accommodated. The size of the building can be varied, without harm to the general plan, to suit the special needs of different localities. BASEMENT It is much needed for the furnace and fuel, storage, and addi- tional space for school activities including play during inclement weather. MAIN FLOOR The plan of this floor is the most novel feature of the build- ing. It is of vital importance and should not be modified without careful consideration. The large cased-openings between the sections for manual training, domestic science, and agriculture and the main space for the seats and desks, permit free entrance of light and an almost unbroken view of the entire floor from any point of view. ATTIC The space here is used for storage and contains the ventila- tion pipes running from the toilet-rooms to the vent at the side of the smoke-stack. Entrance is through a ceiling opening in the hallway. LUMBER This is a frame building and the dimension lumber used in its construction is western fir and eastern white pine. The main floor is of hard maple. PLASTERING There are two coats — the first of wood-fiber on white pine lath and the second of adamant plaster with float finish. TINTING The interior walls up to the picture moulding and outside of the blackboards are tinted a light green and the ceiling, and the walls above the picture moulding, a cream. PAINTING On the outside there are two coats of light cream with ivory- white trimmings, and the roof is stained a moss green. On the inside all finish wood-work has one coat of shellac filler and two coats of hard varnish rubbed down with pumice stone and oil to a smooth, dull finish. The floor has a coat of raw linseed oil and will be kept in good sanitary condition by occasional scrubbing and application of light, sanitary oil-dressing. BLACKBOARDS They cover almost all available space and are made of a coat of wood-fiber on galvanized steel rib lath, a coat of adamant plas- ter with float-finish, and a coat of adamant,^ black putty carefully troweled to a smooth surface. HEATING AND VENTILATION They are by means of a hot-air furnace in the basement. Air inlets and outlets, except the large, fresh-air inlet from out- of-doors Vhich is under the porch and leads beneath the basement floor to the furnace, are indicated on the main floor plan. The furnace draught is automatically controlled by a thermostat, and the circulation of air is quickened by a vent at the side of the smoke-stack. The closets in the toilet-rooms are connected through the attic with this vent. PLUMBING This is reduced to the minimum on account of the danger from freezing when, during cold weather, the school is not in session and consists only of the pumps and sinks in the tiolet-rooms and laboratories and the necessary connecting pipes. SEWAGE AND GARBAGE Sanitary dry closets are used in toilet-rooms and are emptied when necessary on the fields near by. Waste water from the sinks goes into a concealed, disinfected, absorbent basin at the side of the building. All solids that will burn are thrown into the furnace, and any others are accumulated and frequently taken to a properly selected dump ground where they are buried. CISTERN This is divided into three parts — the two filters which receive water from different parts of the roof and the central part, or tank, from which water is pumped for drinking, and laboratory, and toilet purposes. WINDOWS All on the main floor, except those in the toilet-rooms have double sets of double-hung sash, thus aiding ventilation and mak- ing detachable storm-windows unnecessary. All windows have detachable fly-screens. 3 0112 105658279 EVENING LIGHT AND FUEL A gas system involving the use of tanks for storing gas se- cured ready-made is used for evening light and laboratory pur- poses. Both wood and coal (hard or soft) are used in the house- hold range in the domestic science section. The furnace gives the best results with the use of hard coal of the’ ‘‘stove coal’’ size. BELL Instead of the conventional bell in a cupola, there is an electric gong on the rear, outside wall just under the cornice and con- trolled by dry batteries and a push-button on the inside.