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Show Tub New Yokk World sharply protests against tho present system of crowding children iu the public-schools public-schools of Xew York and Brooklyn. U was no uncommon thing, under the old retjimo, to find class-rooini in which the space allotted to each pupil was but -30.40, and in many in-Btancoa in-Btancoa less that 20 cubic feet. Children Chil-dren are forced into suffocating dens, Biibject to no sanitary supervision, where ventilation is not, and whore foul gasses often generate. Tho abstract ab-stract importance of education doet not empower the compulaary impediment im-pediment of life and health. |