Our Schoolhouses
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In 1906 a commission was appointed by act of Congress to report to that body a plan of a better type of schoolhouse for the District of Columbia. The commission was composed of the Superintendent of Schools, the Supervising Architect of the Treasury, and the Engineer Commissioner of the District. Two members were, therefore, expert builders. This commission, of which I was chairman, visited many of the important cities of the country?among them New York, Chicago, Boston, St. Louis, Cleveland, Rochester, Syracuse, Springfield and Worcester?and published a report now known as Senate Document No. 338, Sixtieth Congress, First Session. We examined every one of the one hundred and fifty-six schoolhouses of the district. We visited in all twenty-five other cities. In addition, I myself have visited schools in the more remote parts of the country, including the South and the Pacific coast. In all, I have examined some fifteen hundred schoolhouses. This paper is a summary of
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