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Excerpt from Sanitary Conditions for Schoolhouses With all the attention that has been paid to ventilation. The subject has till quite recently been in its infancy, if even now it has attained anything like maturity. This fact is shown in the ill-ventilated and poorly heated halls in all parts of this country and in Europe. It appears in nearly all the costly churches, where the provision for renewal of the air is quite generally wholly insufficient and in a major ity of cases not one-twentieth of what it should be. The reason that people are alive and in tolerable health is that they spend only a very small fraction of their time in these halls and churches. 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.
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Albert Prescott Marble was the son of John and Emeline Prescott Marble, descendants of old New England stock. He was born on May 21, 1836 at Vassalboro, Maine, where he spent most of his early life on the ancestral farm and developed a robust physique.
By his own industry he accumulated enough money to send himself to academies at Yarmouth and Waterville and to enter, when past his twenty-first birthday, old Waterville College, now Colby. Here his abilities and maturity brought him distinction both from his classmates and from the faculty, and he graduated in 1861 with Phi Beta Kappa honors.
In 1862, Marble with his wife moved to Beaver Dam, Wis. , to accept the professorship of mathematics in Wayland University. While there he served as recruiting officer for the Northern army. His career as an educator had commenced even before he completed his undergraduate training; for he had taught in elementary and secondary schools and had been principal of a public school at Eastport, Me. , and of a private school at Stockbridge, Massachussets From Wisconsin he returned to Maine for a short while and then (1866) accepted the principalship of Worcester Academy. In two years he raised the institution, then in a state of decline, to a position of success and eminence. The achievement of this feat brought him the superintendency of the public schools in Worcester, Massachussets, in 1868. Marble did much by personal example to make the city school superintendency a post of professional leadership rather than a pawn of political chieftains. His attention to the construction, sanitation, and equipment of school buildings not only made Worcester notable but through a secondary momentum gave Massachusetts a position of leadership in the nation. In the period when the public high school was wresting leadership from the academies in secondary education he gave it his special attention. He was never swept off his feet by the latest novelties in education, but he saw a place for the "English" high school in contrast to the classical and welcomed other progressive measures. When the administration of New York City's public schools was reorganized in 1896 into a board of superintendents, Marble was brought from Omaha, Nebr. , where he had been for the two years previous, and was put in charge of the city's first three high schools. When the charter of Greater New York was set in operation, he was retained in the same capacity on the new board of superintendents and held the position till his failing health demanded that he be relieved. He found time to take active part in professional associations, being three times president of the Massachusetts State Teachers Association and secretary and later president of the National Education Association. A prize speaker in college, he continued an engaging and fluent speaker in later life. He was also equally active and effective with his pen. His Sanitary Conditions for School Houses (1891) was published as a Circular of Information by the United States Bureau of Education. His interest in private education he continued as one of the board of visitors at Wellesley College.
Marble was three times president of the Massachusetts State Teachers Association and later president of the National Education Association. In two years he could raised the institution, then in a state of decline, to a position of success and eminence. That achievement brought him the superintendency of the public schools in Worcester, Massachussets, in 1868.
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In 1861 he was married to Louise Wells Marston.
