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BULLETIN 

OF TH~ 
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS 

No. 198 
FOUR TIMES A MONTH 
EXTENSION SERIES No. 19 SEPTEMBER 8, 1911 
THREE-ROOM AND FOUR-ROOM SCHOOL 
BUILDINGS 

PUBLISHED BY 
THE UN IVERSITY OF TEXAS 
A USTIN, TEXAS 

Entered as second-class mail matter at the postotfice at Austin, Texas. 
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THREE-ROOM AND FOUR-ROOM SCHOOL 
BUILDINGS 

SUPPLEMENT TO 
ONE-ROOM AND TWO-ROOM RURAL SCHOOL BUILDINGS 
All the specifications contained in the bulletin No. 152, Ex­tension Series No. 4, One-Room and Two-Room Rural School Buildings, will apply in the plan for these la1'.ger buildings. The rooms are exactly the size of those in the smaller buildings. There are merely additional rooms extending over additional space. No extra strain or demand of any kind is placed on the building material. There is, therefore, no reason for further specifications than those contained in the bulletin, and those in­dicated in the accompanying cuts. 
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Three-Room Plan. 
Three-room building, erected either by adding one room to the two-room bnilding 11s specified by the De­pr.rtrnent of Extension of the University of Texas; or as an original plan for a new three-room building. 
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