Book excerpt: Excerpt from Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Boston, 1873 Our space will not permit us to pursue this impor tant topic more in detail but we will refer for its further illustration and discussion to the report just quoted from, and also to the report of the same Board for the year 1871. Again, in regard to the matter of the admission of light, it is a fact that not until the present year, and then almost by accident, has the strict rule never departed from in the construction of European school houses, been observed, namely: to have the light enter always at the left hand, and on the side par allel to the greater length of the room. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.