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ACCOMMODATIONS.

The Building at present occupied by the school is the best
and indeed almost the only one at all suitable, that could be
obtained. The accommodations consist of a large Hall 28x70
feet, and two small ante-rooms, one of which has no direct
light. One of these ante-rooms is used as a cloak room for
the ladies; the other, besides doing duty as a hat-room for
the gentlemen, and a store-room for Calisthenic apparatus,
is pressed into service as a recitation room.

As long as the number of students did not exceed 50, these
apartments were quite sufficient; but for the present num-
ber, and especially with the prospect of a large increase,
they are entirely inadequate. Judging from applications
already on file, it is probable that the school will reopen in

January with 80 students, and it is not unlikely that the
number will run up to 100 before the end of the session.
Such a number can be very comfortably seated in our Hall, but
they cannot be taught, as efficiently as if wo had access to
three or four quiet and well arranged class-rooms.

ACCOMMODATIONS NEEDED.

It would be useless to say what the school needs now; for,
judging from the past, we have a right to presume that every
session will make larger demands, until the limit contem-
plated by the Law is reached; and this limit will probably
be attained in less than two years. It will be better to"say
at once, what is needed for such a school as the law designs.
The Normal school proper will require a study-room with
234 desks; a Lecture-room capable of seating 500 persons,
(the students of the normal school and the scholars of the
model schools ;) an exercise hall; 8 class rooms; an apparatus
Room; a Library; and an Office, The " Model and Exper-
imental Schools" will require '2 Study-rooms and 10 Class-
rooms.

BOARDING .

It has been one of my duties to procure suitable Boarding-
houses for students who do not reside in the city, and have
no relatives there. This has not always been an easy task ;
but, up to this time, places have been found for all applicants,
at prices varying from $3 to $5 a week. This arrangement
is not as satisfactory as could be desired. Few boarding-
houses can make adequate provision for students when

engaged in their studies. In some instances, the com-
mon sitting room, where they are liable to interruption at all
hours, is the only study-room they have. Being, many of
them, strangers in a strange city, they need especially at
their first arrival, much sympathy, encouragement, and ad-
vice; but, scattered as they are in various and distant sec-
tions of the city, it is impossible for their teachers to visit
them often. It is hard under these circumstances to make