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Room 'A' with recently purchased 'American' desks, 1904.
Room ‘A’ was one of the original post-1873 classrooms and was primarily used by the then Principal, George Morrison. It was situated to the right of the Northern Entrance when entering the School. It is now the Keith Home Room.
‘In the Seventies (1870s), the main school building ended with the west wall of Room ‘A’, and the architect, conscious, even in those far off days, of his responsibility to consider the health of the boys, provided the room with ventilators fed from a vent below the floor of the west wall. How could he have foreseen that boys would broadcast, through this vent, rude remarks that would resound throughout the room: or that, on one occasion, chemistry students would install a Kepps Generator in the opening and flood the room with H2S? The same architect, obviously a simple and unsuspecting soul, also arranged for a trap-door in the floor of Room A and under the masters' dais. He really should have realized that lessons would sometimes be disturbed by strange, rat-like noises from under the floor.‘ Sources: Pegasus June 1961 p 20 (Prob B. R. Keith).