isa-normaladvance-1913-00071

Description:	THE NORMAL ADVANCE71An excellent site for this building has beenpurchased at an expense of $21,000. It is directly across the street from the main building of the institution and embraces a tract having a frontage of 132 feet and extending 149feet to an alley in the rear. A building situated upon this tract could be easily heatedand ventilated from the present central heating station. It would require one new boilerto furnish the necessary heat, but the presentboiler house would accommodate such newboiler.The needs of the Indiana State NormalSchool as set forth above are urgent in theextreme sense of the term. As before stated,the school can no longer do its work in anefficient manner and fulfill the purpose forwhich it was organized and is supported bythe state without increased resources and moreadequate building facilities for teaching thesenew subjects.The needs of the school are greater byreason of the fact that the annual term hasbeen extended to a four-quarter year that is,the school maintains an academic year of forty-eight weeks, having only short intermissions between terms. The object is to accomodate the largest number of teachers possible.Many of the teachers of the state and highschool graduates wishing to become publicschool teachers are unable to attend school atany other time than during the summer vacation. It is of the greatest importance to theseclasses that the State Normal School shall bein session during the summer months. It,therefore, maintains a summer term of twelveweeks, the students being taught by the regular faculty and all other school conditions being the same as at other times in the year.This_has greatly increased the expenses of theinstitution and makes imperative the needsset forth.Respectfully submitted,WILLIAM W. PARSONS,President of Faculty.U. I. HIGH SCHOOL CONFERENCE.The annual high school conference of theUniversity of Illinois, held .at Urbana, November 21-23, was attended by about 1,000teachers. The specific purpose of the conference! is to bring together university, college,normal and high school teachers in an effortto unify and standardize education. Dr. Dryer read a paper before the geography sectionon The New Department in Geography,which will be published in the proceedings ofthe conference.NEW OUTLOOK WRITING SYSTEM.The New Outlook Writing System, by W.T. Turman, published by O. P. Barnes,Chicago.The New7 Outlook Writing System is one ofthe most up-to-date systems of w7riting published at the present time. It consists of eightgrades, the eighth of which was added lastyear. A special feature of these books notfound in others of their kind is the manualof instructions for their use, found on the inside cover pages. Numbers 1, 2 and 3 take upthe elementary movements of writing, usinglarge copy and intended for the use of pencils,thus more perfectly adapting them to the useof small children. In Number 4 the writingof figures is begun, which is continuedthroughout the series. Continued and increasing attention is given to connecting movementsof letters as the pupil advances in the work.Number 8 is in many ways a review of the preceding books, yet it has many advanced features, making it especially suitable for highschool work.Last May the entire series was adopted inthe state of Kansas for a period of five years,and in November Texas adopted them for aperiod of six years.The many points of excellence of this seriesof writing books cannot all be given in thisnotice, but they will be apparent at once tothe observer.
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Collection:	Indiana State University Archives

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