isa-normaladvance-1903-00111

Description:	THE NORMAL ADVANCE.IllThe Normal Advance.Devoted to the Interests of the State Normal School.EDITORIAL STAFF.B. L. Vawter, 03 Editor in ChiefJoe H. Stahl, 04 Associate EditorAlma 0. Beste, 03 Literary EditorEverett Sanders Athletic EditorMary V. Peterson, 03 Society EditorE. F. Fishback, 05 . . ) , ,.^ ,, ,„, i Local and AlumniDorothy Venard, 04 . >Guy C. Sipple, 03 ExchangesGenevieve L. Weems Senior EditorC. E. Green Junior EditorA. T. Farmer Sophomore EditorW. L. Hanna Freshman EditojBUSINESS STAFF.A. G. Porter Business ManagerH. C. Rogers Subscription AgentOttis Martin j Ast ^ AgtsOtto Martin >BOARD OF CONTROL.Pres. W. W. Parsons, Ex-offlcio.Arthur Cunningham, Chairman.Jessie Doane, 05, Secretary.Charles M. Curry. A. T. Mayfield, 03Roy E. Halstead, 04. W. L. Hanna, 06Published Monthly from October to June, inclusive.Terms—Seventy-five 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 Postoffice as second-class matter.Owing to other duties E. 0. Stopher tenderedhis resignation as subscription agent. Mr.Stopher is very successful in all his undertakingsand we are sorry to lose him from the staff. However, at a meeting of the board of control March14th, H. 0. Rogers was appointed to fill the placeand we feel that Mr. Rogers will manage the business of subscription agent successfully for the remainder of the year. Ottis and Otto Martin wereappointed as assistants to Mr. Rogers.Fred Spencer also resigned as athletic editoras he does not expect to be in school during thespring term. Everett Saunders was appointed ashis successor.An instance of false economy, which is to beregretted, is that the last legislature of Indiana didnot pass Representative Corns bill, which was ameasure to raise the state tuition tax levy from 11to 16 cents, which was the rate prior to 1899.During the last few years the tendency has beenso much for the population, as well as wealth, tocenter in the cities, that the enumeration in therural districts has been noticeably decreasedand many trustees have found it impossible to havesix months school although they have levied themaximum local rate. The common school is thehope of our country and we do not believe thatthe rural schools should suffer a disadvantagefrom the tendencies of this commercial age.The last General Assembly dealt very liberallywith the State Educational Institutions. TheState Normal School asked for a special appropriation of $50,000 for the purchase of a site for,and the erection of, a new training school building.This appropriation was made and the money willbe available November 1, 1904. The trustees willsoon begin the consideration of plans and specifications for this new building and will let thecontract some time next winter so that the contraction may be begun about one year from thistime. It is the intention to buy a suitable pieceof ground somewhere near the present buildingsand erect thereon a building that shall be in everyway modern and model. The object will be toprovide the training school with a building constructed for it and made to suit its needs as fullyas it is possible to do. When this is done thetraining school will be enlarged so that each ofthe eight grades will be separate and to itself in aroom of its own and managed by a single teacher.This will greatly increase the efficiency of thetraining school, and at the same time give theNormal School proper for its class work, a largeamount of space now occupied by the trainingschool and which for years the Normal School hasgreatly needed.A request was also made for $5,000 for the purchase of, and the fitting up of, an athletic park.This request was granted and a committee consist-
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