isa-normaladvance-1903-00091

Description:	THE NORMAL ADVANCE.91The Normal Advance.Devoted to the Interests of the State Normal School.EDITORIAL STAFF.B. L. VawteEj 03 Editor in ChiefJob H. Stahl, 04 Associate EditorAlma C. Beste, 03 Literary EditorFeed Spencer, 05 Athletic EditorMaet V. Peterson, 03 Society EditorE. F. Fishback, 05 . . ) , , ,,_ -T ,„. ( •. Local and AlumniDorothy Venard,04 . >GUT C. Sipple, 03 ExchangesGenevieve L. Weeiis Senior EditorC. E. Green Junior EditorA. T. Farmer Sophomore EditorW. L Hanna Freshman EditorBUSINESS STAFF.A. G. Poeter Business ManagerE. C. Stopher Subscription AgentBOARD OF CONTROL.Pees. W. W. Parsons, Ex-officio.Arthur Cunningham, Chairman.Jessie Doane, 05, Secretary.Charles M. Cueey. A. T. Mayfield, 03Roy E. Halstead, 04. W. L. Hanna, 06Published Monthly from October to June, inclusive.Terms—Seventy-live cents per year, in advance. Single copies,10 cents. Commencement number, 25 cents.Address all communications to The Normal Advance, TerreHaute, Ind.All alumni, as well as undergraduates, are solicited to hand incommunications.The Advance is sent to subscribers until arrears are paid upand the paper stopped.Entered at Terre Haute Postoffi.ee as second-class matter.The subscribers to The Advance will favor usif they will report any failure to receive the paperregularly to the Subscription Agent. We mention this because a few instances have been broughtto our notice, and it is our desire that satisfactorytreatment be given to all.portunity of using the item-box and thus aid usin collecting material for each issue.We wish to call attention to our item-box recently placed on the bulletin board. This is togive our friends the opportunity of contributingitems of interest to The Advance. It is impossible for the staff to collect all the items that areof interest to the students. For this reason wehope our friends will avail themselves of the op-Through the kindness of State SuperintendentFra»k L. Jones,, we are permitted to print in thisissue an article from his Report on Rural Schools.This article is concerning the Rural TrainingSchool at Glenn, and now under the control ofthe Professional Department of the State Normal.It is well worth the study of ever3r student, especially those expecting to be teachers, for it describes what is intended to be a model countryschool and many features are given that could andshould be placed in every country school of thestate. In many instances the Condition of ruralschools is deplorable and one of the first duties ofthe teacher is to give his assistance in remedyingsuch conditions. While a model school cannot beestablished in every country school of the state, yeta careful reading of this article shows almost unlimited opportunity to improve the present standard.As we go to press there is before the GeneralAssembly a bill, which if passed, will greatly benefit the three state educational institutions. Thebill is House Bill No. 316 and provides for an increase in the tax for maintaining these schools,from 1 2-3 cents to 2 3-4 cents on the $100. Theformer levy was fixed by the law of 1895 and sincethat time, although the number of students andthe work in various departments has vastly increased, there has been no provision made to meetthe necessary expense incurred by these circumstances. In many cases progress has been impeded by the strained pecuniary conditions of theseinstitutions.This law will add about $140,000 annually tothe fund for the support of the State Normal,Purdue and Indiana University and it should receive the endorsement of every citizen throughoutthe state. The bill has been favorably recommended by the legislative committee and the educational committee, to which it was referred, andhas been passed to engrossment in the lower house.
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