isua-isnscatalog-1886-1887-053

Description:	52INDIANA STATE NORMAL SCHOOL.PRESENT CONDITION OF THE SCHOOL.By reference to page 29 it will be seen that the attendance has been gradually increasing from year to year throughout the history of the school.Opening on the 6th of January, 1870, with fewer than a score of studeuts, it has grown to an attendance within the three terms ending June 10, 1887, of 769 different persons. This unexpected growth rendered the portions of the Normal School building, heretofore occupied by the school, quite in¬ sufficient for its needs. The Terre Haute High School, which, since the completion of the building, has occupied one-half of the first floor also became too large to conduct its work ad¬ vantageously in the portions of the building assigned it.At the close of the last school year, June, 1886, the High School withdrew to quarters provided for it by the city, thus leaving the entire building to be used for Normal School pur¬ poses. The interest of both schools have been greatly pro¬ moted by the separation, each now having ample room to meet its needs. The additional facilities thus acquired by the Normal School will enable it not only to do its present work more effect¬ ively, but also to provide for an increasing attendance for several years to come should its past and present rate of growth con¬ tinue.The rooms for assembly and recitation purposes, relinquished by the High School, will enable the institution to accommodate at least two hundred and fifty students more than have hereto¬ fore been in attendance.The Normal School is a school for the training of teachers for the common schools of the State. It assumes that teaching is a business, and can be learned. During the year ending June 10, 1887, 769 different students, representing seventy-seven counties of the State, have attended the school, in the thought and the de¬ sire to prepare for teaching in the public schools. It gives pleas¬ ure to bear testimony to the excellent conduct, high character and serious, earnest purposes of this large number of young men
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Collection:	Indiana State University Archives

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