Identifier: appendixtojourna19091cali (find matches)
Title: Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: California. Legislature
Subjects: Legislative journals
Publisher: Sacramento : State Printing
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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Equipment for a class in cooking at the California Polytechnii School. 12<) — THE SAN JOSE HIGH SCHOOL. From City Superintendent Alexander Sherriffs of San Jose. The San Jose High School is coustructed on the university plan. Itconsists of five separate and distinct buildings so grouped and connectedas to form one general whole. The Administration Building, with itsmassive towers, is the central feature: on either side are the Classicaland Science buildings; at the rear of these are the Domestic Scienceand Manual Arts buildings. They are all of the same type of architec-ture, with rough cement plaster exteriors and red tile roofs, and areconnected by three cloisters. One of these runs through the towersbetween the east and west entrances and is crossed by the other two,
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San Jose Higii School. which extend from the Classical and Science buildings to the rear endof the group. Each of these two side cloisters lead to the side entrancesof the Assembly Hall in the main building. The east cloister also passesan open court around which are located the various departments of theManual Arts Building. In the Science Building the first floor contains the departments ofBiology and Physiography, with their aquarium and bivalve troughs,herbarium cases, windows arranged with darkening curtains, and elec-tric connections for lantern work, and metrological recording instru-ments, connected by cables with the weather vane on the tower, thethermometer, barometer, and rain gauge. The Chemistry and Physicsdepartments are located on the second floor, where there is also a largescience lecture hall. The demonstrators tables in these three rooms areequipped with all the various forms of electrical energy, water, gas, andcompressed and vacuum air for experimental purposes. T

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