will be less problematical than here.




CHAPTER VI.--MAKESHIFTS.


[Greek text].

From our chapter on the geographical features of our settlement we pass
on to describe how the settlers were housed and organised.

If a school be an institution for teaching purposes, its school-room and
class-rooms should be the most essential portion of its plant. Without
discussing the adequacy of the definition, we will begin with these. We
were not ill provided; with an exception or two, the rooms appropriated
for class-rooms answered the purpose well. Some of them were spacious;
the rest were large enough for the wants of the classes, limited to an
average of twenty. Nor would a Government Inspector have justly measured
this adequacy by the "cubic capacity," if he failed to take into account
the exhilarating five minutes' breathing time upon the beach, at eleven
o'clock. There was a rare pleasure in those moments of escape from Greek
verbs to the sparkle of the tide and the scent of the sea breeze.

What Germans call the "real" subjects, were also provided for. The
modern languages were taught mostly in the class-rooms of the classical
masters. Music took up her quarters in several scattered dwellings.
Wales is the home of song, and our musicians were very welcome to make
the cottage walls resound to violin or key-board. We remember well the