our artificial division, entirely
superseded, in the school-room, the divisions of the clock face.

But in order that I may be specific and definite, I will draw up a plan
for the regular division of time, for a common school, not to be
_adopted_, but to be _imitated_; i. e. I do not recommend exactly this
plan, but that some plan, precise and specific, should be determined
upon, and exhibited to the school, by a diagram like the following.

FORENOON.
IX X XI XII
+-------------+--------------------+-----------------+
| Reading. | Writing. R. G. | Arithmetic. |
+-------------+--------------------+-----------------+
| | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | |
+-------------+--------------------+-----------------+

AFTERNOON.
II III IV V
+-------------+--------------------+-----------------+
| Grammar. | Writing. R. G. | Geography. |
+-------------+--------------------+-----------------+
| | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | |
+-------------+--------------------+-----------------+

A drawing on a large sheet, made by some of the older scholars, (for a
teacher should never do any thing of this kind which his scholars can do
for him,) should be made and pasted up to view, the names of the
classes being inserted in the columns, under their respective heads. At
the double lines at ten and three, there might be a rest of two minutes;
an officer appointed for the purpose, ringing a bell at each of the
parts marked on the plan, and making the signal for the _rest_, whatever
signal might be determined upon. It is a good plan to have a bell rung
five minutes before each half hour expires, and then exactly at its
close. The first one would be to notify the teacher, or teachers, if
there are more than one in the school, that the time for their
respective recitations is drawing to a close. At the second bell the new
classes should take their places without waiting to be called for. The
scholars will thus see that the arrangements of