isa-normaladvance-1903-00181

Description:	THE NOEMAL ADVANCE.181ing the year we have had many disappointmentsand have at no time reached our ideal of acollege paper, but we hope that our supporters aresatisfied with the output as a whole.The success of the paper depends largely on thesupport it receives, and we are truly thankful forthe support given this year. The classes have beenespecially loyal in the last three issues. Throughout the year our advertisers have been very liberalin their support. Our thanks are also due to members of the Faculty, students and friends, who havecontributed articles for publication.We wish to express our thanks to E. GuyDavisson for his efficient work with us during theyear. The cartoon work and cover designs are thework of Mr. Davisson. He has also given valuablehelp in writing and editing articles.We note with pleasure that preparations arebeing made for the enlargement of the school andthe extension of its courses in the various lines ofstudy, made possible by the liberal appropriationsof the last General Assembly. It will be remembered that a specific appropriation of $50,000 wasgiven for the construction of a new training schoolbuilding, and that the tax for the maintenance ofthe school was increased from one-twentieth of onemill to three-fortieths. This will give an increaseof about $35,000 per year. The board of trusteesis now negotiating with several parties owningproperty near the present school buildings for asite for the new training school building. It isthought that the ground will cost about $t0,000,and it is the intention to supplement the specialappropriation by about $25,000 taken from themaintenance fund, so that a suitable building canbe erected for the training school. It is the design to construct a modern, beautiful building,complete in all of its appointments and adaptedin the fullest manner possible to the needs of thisimportant department of the institution. Thetraining school will itself, be enlarged, so thateach of the eight grades will be in a room to itself and managed by a single teacher. It is thethought, too, that these rooms should be largerthan the ordinary school room, as the schools areused for observation and practice and necessarilya larger number of adults are oftentimes in them.Special attention will be paid to the heating, lighting, and ventilating of this new building. It is thehope and intention to make the building itselfwhat the idea of the training school would require—a model school building. Plans will be madefor the building this fall, a contract will be let inthe winter, and the work will begin early in theseason of 1904, so that the building can be completed and ready for occupancy at the opening ofthe school year, 1904.The increased maintenance will also make itpossible to enlarge the faculty and greatly extendthe courses of study. The courses in the variouslines will be extended so as to cover all of thework and more than is done in the most advancedhigh schools of the state. The courses in biology,literature, history, Latin, German, physics, chemistry, mathematics, etc., will all be extended tofour years. This will require that eight or ten additional professors be added to the Faculty.Preparations for teaching means very much morenow than it did when the State Normal Schoolwas organized thirty years ago. Then there werefew high schools in the state, and the great bulkof the teaching was done in the grades below thehigh school. Now the high school work of thestate is a very considerable element, and it is theduty of the Normal School to offer its studentscourses that will prepare them to teach in allgrades of the public schools, including the highschool, ft is not the intention of the school toduplicate in any way the work of colleges or universities, but simply to fulfill in larger measurethe law under which the school was organized andis maintained, requiring it to prepare teachers toteach in the common schools of Indiana, It willbe a great pleasure to the alumni, undergraduates,and friends of the institution to know that theseimportant changes and additions to the school areto be made in the near future.
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