isa-normaladvance-1909-00357

Description:	THE NORMAL ADVANCE357Tho Training and High Schools will losetheir superintendent at the close of this schoolyear. Professor James O. Engleman, 01, whohas so ably managed the High School throughits infancy, has resigned to accept a positionas Head of the Department of Education in theState Normal School at LaCrosse, Wisconsin.His successor, at this writing, has not yet beenappointed.With these changes in the Faculty, its totalregular membership is forty-nine. With thespring assistants, the membership is over sixty.The close of the school year, June, 1908, sawthe graduation of the largest class, from theNormal School proper, in the history of the institution. The class had an enrollment of aboutone hundred thirty members. This same Junealso saw the close of the first years work inthe new High School, and the College Course.Four students were graduated from the College Course as the first class to receive the degree A. B. from the Indiana State Normal.We are especially proud of our CollegeCourse, and it is with great pleasure that weare able to show its rapid growth. During theschool year 1907-1908, the first year of our College Course, 120 different students were enrolled. Of these, 41 were men and 79 women.During the past school year, 1908-1909, 157 different students, 68 men and 89 women, havebeen enrolled. This shows an increase of 65per cent in the enrollment of male students,which is certainly very gratifying. The enrollment by terms for the past year has beenas follows: Summer, 1908—64 fall, 1908—58 winter, 1909—61 and spring, 1909—92. TheSenior class of the College Course for this yearconsists of seven members.The members of last years class are Messrs.Walter Woodrow, Hervey A. Henderson,Ernest D. Long and Roscoe R. Hyde. Mr.Woodrow majored in science and is at presentinstructor of science in Normal High School.Mr. Henderson took his degree in the HistoryCourse and for the past year has been superintendent of schools at Goodland. Mr. Longmajored in psychology and philosophy and isspring assistant in this work at I. S. N. at present. Mr. Hyde also completed the sciencecourse and has since taken his A. M. at IndianaUniversity. He is now assisting in the sciencework at I. S. N. All in all, we feel this is anexcellent showing for our first class of collegegraduates.One of the important features connectedwith the graduation exercises of last year wasthe wearing of the cap and gown by the Seniors. Another, and perhaps the most important in years, is the greatly renewed interestshown hj the institution in its Alumni. Forthe first time, one day was set aside in thecommencement week, to be known as AlumniDay, on which all functions pertaining only toour Alumni were to be held. Appropriate androusing exercises were held and no doubt muchgood will come of the setting apart of this dayin honor of our graduates.Perhaps the most valuable, but least known,movement begun by the class of 1908, is theStudents Loan Fund, by which Seniors areenabled to borrow sums from the StudentsBuilding Fund on the honor system. The movement so far has been a great success and the aidoffered to students by this means is perhapsone of the most memorable deeds done by anyclass graduated from I. S. NNow to turn from the affairs of last year tothose of this term. First, on May 29, for thefirst time since 1903, I. S. N. administered adecisive defeat in baseball to the Rose Polytechnic, the score being 3 to 0. This victorybroke the hoodoo which seemingly hungabout all contests which I. S. N. entered intowith Rose Poly, and has given our boys newcourage, which no doubt will make it easier towdn next year. The general effect on the people in the city, however, is far more valuablethan the winning of the game for, whateverprejudices against oats and hay may havebeen held previously, will be somewhat eliminated by this turn of athletic affairs.
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Collection:	Indiana State University Archives

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