isua-isnscatalog-1873-1874-042

Description:	42STATE NORMAL SCHOOL.The management of the Institution conforms to the intent of the law by which it was created.FACTS SHOWN BY STATISTICS.First—The majority of persons who enter a Normal School are between twenty and thirty years of age, and have, therefore, con¬ siderable maturity of mind, and are somewhat fixed in their habits —have some stability of character. This, with another fact, that the pupil must have good health as one of the legal qualifications for admission, indicates that the students are capable of close and continued application under proper regulations. They are at an age when they are supposed to have some well-defined purpose in view.Second—The majority of our students are wholly dependent on their own previoiis industry and economy for the means of support¬ ing themselves while attending the school. If the expense of tuition were added to the expenses which they now sustain, the number of their class—the self-sustaining—would be smaller. -if the Legisla¬ ture would make a special appropriation for paying the necessary expenses of this class of students in traveling to and from the Nor¬ mal School, or for providing boarding halls at which board could be furnished at a low price, or for purchasing the needed text-books —if any one or all of these expenses could be defrayed in part by a special appropriation of the Legislature—it would not be a mis¬ appropriation. It would largely increase the attendance of the class named. Those who, under adverse circumstances, show energy of character enough to save means by which to pay their expenses at the Normal School for one or two terms, and who, by their attend¬ ance, show an aspiration to better fit themselves for teaching, and who are quite willing to pledge themselves to teach in the common schools twice as long as they are members of the Normal School, would certainly not be unworthy recipients of the States encouragement and assistance.Third—Nearly seventy-three per cent, of our students have received only such education as our common schools give and sixty-eight per cent, of the whole number have held licenses to teach. These two facts forcibly suggest that the common schools themselves are furnish-
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Collection:	Indiana State University Archives

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