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priated twenty-five thousand dollars which proved inadequate to meet the demands which were being made upon this type of school at that time. Finally, after many requests, two hundred seventy-five thousand dollars was provided by the Legislature for the erection of a new building. Repre- sentatives of the State and City governments, many former teachers and pupils, and others interested in educational work were present at the dedication, which was held January 26, 1897. A State Normal School was established in VVorcester in 187-1. The condition that this city should pay the Board of Education the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, if an appropriation of sixty thousand dollars was made by the Legislature, was promptly accepted. An interesting fact to be noted is that Dr. G. Stanley Hall's sugges- tion that the study of child psychology might be better followed by orig- inally observing children, was the starting point of a program for this pur- pose which was worked out and adopted as a part of the curriculum in the VVorcester Normal School. ln 189-1, the State Legislature authorized the establishment of four new State Normal Schools. The one at Fitchburg was the first of the four to be established on July 1, 1895. The organizations of our school and those in Lowell, North Adams and Hyannis are due, to a great extent, to the efforts of Joseph G. Edgerly, Superintendent of Schools in Fitchburg at that time, Hon. Arthur H. Lowe, llayor, and other city ofiicials. A petition was presented to the State Board of lfducation sug- gesting that a Normal School be situated in this city. The result was that one was established here, and others in the places named above. The school at North Adams was, as we know, one of the four new Normal Schools to be established under the act of Legislature approved in 189-1-. February 1, 1897, is the date of the entrance of the first class. The gift of a location in North Adams was especially fine, as it pro- vided for noteworthy opportunities for out of door nature study and industry. The county of Barnstable was to be the location of one of the four new State Normal Schools. Hyannis was chosen as the most favorable site, and the school was established in 1897. It has been said that Lowell has always held a place among towns noted for educational advancement. One is not surprised then, that the Legislature gave to this city the honor of having a Normal School estab- lished there. On Gctober -1, 1897, the school was opened to pupils, the dedication exercises taking place June 15, 1898. The building itself, as a model structure of its kind, attracts much attention. By an act passed llflay 16, 1870, the Legislature made instruction in drawing compulsory in the public schools. The need for competent teach- ers was felt greatly. Nlr. VVa1ter Smith, whom the Board employed in 1871 as State Director of Art lfducation, made an inspection of the schools, and advised the establishment of a training school for drawing teachers. An appeal was made to the Legislature, but it was unsuccessful. Finally, means were provided, and the school was opened November ll, 1873, at Boston, lllassachusetts. In 1878, it was moved to a building constructed for its special use. 1930 finds the first State endowed Art School of the country erected at Brookline and Longwood Avenues, Bos- ton. This new school furnishes accommodations for an enrollment of approximately eight hundred day and evening school students. This account of the development of Normal Schools in Massachu- setts shows that teacher training is an essential part of the Educational system in this State. During the years of its existence Fitchburg Normal School has fulfilled its obligation by sending 3,321 eibciently trained teach- ers into the educational field of Massachusetts. I 'a ge eleven
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Page len The History of The Normal School In Massachusetts VVhen the Massachusetts Board of lfducation was established in 1838, it immediately turned its attention to the founding of Normal Schools. A sum of ten thousand dollars was furnished by a member of the board, lidmund Dwight of Boston, which was to be used for the purpose of qualifying teachers for our public schools. This amount was furnished, however, on the condition that the Legislature would appropriate a similar sum for the same purpose. This proposition being accepted it was decided by the Board of Education to establish three training schools for teachers. Each of the three was considered as an experiment, and was to cover a period of three years. Until the year 1855, the course of study required was one year, then one and a half years until 1865. At that time it was increased to two years. A four-year course was put into practice in 1869, the last two years being optional. A more recent change is the three year course which was established this year in our own Normal School. The first Normal Schools, or seminaries for the qualification of teachers, were operated in Lexington and Barre in 1839. The increasing number of pupils at the Lexington Normal School made it necessary to remove the school to VVest Newton in 18-1-f-. The fourteenth annual report of 1850, states as follows: The house for the Normal School at VVest Newton is situated in such immediate proximity to the VVorcester railroad that the exercises of the school are at all seasons seriously interrupted by the noiseg and during the warmer months of the year, when the windows are required to be opened, the inconvenience and loss of time are very considerable. This being the earliest Normal School in America, the Board wished 'fto erect a building which shall be in all respects, internally and externally, creditable to the State and worthy of the purpose for which it is erected. Framingham was the location selected for this building, the first State Nor- mal School. The VVestfield Normal School is the second oldest in America. On September -1-, 1839, it was established at Barre. The building was orig- inally erected as a town hall. The school was transferred in 18-1--1 to VVest- field and the first formal graduation took place in 1855. There was vigorous competition among the towns of Abington, VVare- ham, Plymouth, Duxbury and Marshfield for the location of the third State Normal School, but it was finally decided to establish it at Bridge- water. The free use of its town hall was granted to the school for three years. A rental of fifty dollars was paid by the school for the next three years. This State Normal School experiment was a great success under the leadership of Nicholas Tillinghast, its first principal. The town of Bridge- water has the honor of having erected in 18-16 the first State Normal School building erected in America. At the time when the Board of lfducation was considering the removal of the West Newton school to some other town-Salem was suggested as a suitable place. The school, as we know, was removed to Framingham, but later on when it was decided to establish other Normal Schools, Salem was chosen as the site for one of them. Un September 14, 185-l, the building was dedicated and opened. Seventy-two students were admitted to the school. Forty-eight of this number graduated. Increasing membership and needs made it necessary, in 1870, to have a new building erected. For this the Legislature appro-
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