isua-isnscatalog-1889-1890-047

Description:	46ANNUAL REGISTER.Mr. Foster, National Reforms.Dr. D. S. Jordan, Yellowstone Park.Col. Thomas H. Nelson, Mexico.Dr. W. E. Sheldon, The Teachers Personal Qualifications.Prof. D. J. Snider, The Shakesperian Drama Mrs. May Wright Sewell, Our Foreign Critics.Prof. W. A. Bell, How We Grow.PRESENT CONDITION OF THE SCHOOL.The current school year opened on the 17th of September last. The new Normal School building, while not entirely completed, was advanced far enough for the school to take possession of it. The work of the year was accordingly begun in the new building. The entire basement is fitted up for school purposes, the heating apparatus being in a separate building erected for it, thus giving a larger amount of room for the work of the school than the old building contained.While the new building is not so high by one story as the old, there is in it, by reason of placing the heating apparatus in a separate building, considerably more available room for school purposes. It cost less, but is thought to be architecturally much superior, and is, in its internal structure and arrangement, in every way better adapted to the needs of the institution. Through the liberality of the city of Terre Haute, which gave promptly $50,000 to aid in the restoration of the building, and the appropriation by the last General Assembly of $100,000 for the same purpose, the institution finds itself to-day in the posses¬ sion of more ample and suitable quarters than it has heretofore enjoyed with a library superior to that lost by the fire, with better furniture for the building, and with more and better appa¬ ratus, appliances and materials of all kinds for all departments of its work.By reference to page 29, of this catalogue, it will be seen that the year ending June 27, 1890, has been one of the most pros¬ perous of the schools history, the total number of different students being 823, and the average term enrollment, 463. Not only has the number of students steadily increased, with slight variations, but the ability and scholarship of those enter¬ ing has been found of a higher order. Several measures have
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