isa-normaladvance-1913-00255

Description:	THE NORMAL ADVANCE 255jWanual drainingTHE DEPARTMENT OF MANUAL TRAINING ANDDOMESTIC SCIENCE WILL OFFER COURSES INCOOKING, FOR THE FIRST TIME, AT THE OPENINGOF THE SUMMER QUARTER.A T the beginning of the fall term in 1905, the State Normal School offered its first coursesin manual training. There was only one teacher, the present head of the department and for the first term only ten students enrolled. By the end of the summer term of thatschool year one hundred thirty-three enrollments had been made in the various classes in thedepartment. In 1906-7, there were 218 enrollments in the department in 1907-8, 329 in1908-9, 276 in 1909-10, 355 in 1910-11, 459 in 1911-12, 766 and in 1913, 900 students enrolled in the department. There are now two regular teachers and tAvo assistants in thedepartment.The legislature of 1913 passed the Stahl-Yarling bill for the encouragement, maintenance, and supervision of vocational education in industries, agriculture, and domestic science.This law will certainly hasten the work of introducing the subjects mentioned into schoolsAvhere they were unknown before, and probably be the means of extending them in schoolsAvhere they are already established in the courses of study. The greatest trouble that schoolboards have had in the past and probably will have in the next few years is to secure men andAvomen competent to teach and supervise the teaching of these neAv subjects. With this inmind the general assembly increased the tax for the maintenance funds of three stateschools, Indiana University, Purdue University, and Indiana State Normal School.Proceeds from this tax will enable the State Normal School to build on the ground recentlypurchased on the south side of Mulberry street opposite the city training school, a new modern building for the accommodation of the Department of Manual Training and DomesticScience. This building Avill be completed and thoroughly equipped Avithin the next eighteenmonths, and the State Normal School will be established more firmly than ever in the lead ofall other institutions in the preparation of teachers for the schools of the state.
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Collection:	Indiana State University Archives

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