Illinois State Normal University - Index Yearbook (Normal, IL)

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D 'Ctbe 1I uber 1 1 the south seems endowed with unusual graces. Yonder is a man who is spending his whole time in its care so that it will soon lose, I trust, the air of neglect which has so long been attached to it. Normal Schools are recording great triumphs now. When the new institution provided for by the last General Assembly shall have been duly established, Illinois will then be able to do something worth while in the influencing of educational sentiment and prac- tice. Five good Normal Schools cannot do all of the work for Illinois, but they can do much. As long as Massachusetts, with halt as many teachers has ten, and lNIichigan, with about the same number, has six, and while New York and Pennsylvania are away off yonder in the van, Illinois cannot compliment herself, very highly. But the idea of the professionally trained teacher is at last triumphant. To those of us who were part of the battle of thirty years ago it seems quite too good to be true. The day of conflict on that line has passed away. And now we must prove ourselves worthy of the great service to which we are called, ff 47 ly' if A -2 f I ' WS ,J-1, 'XYVK SCHOO -V W---, .. Q L , ' V ,K ,i,,,,,-f -- A - 5 IA - ' U , XXX 4. IT, A , f rx fx. , ., N -W 'A N QNX PR Vu Ps X

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Q the 1lnoeg PRACTICE SCHOOL,

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'Che Ilnbeg ASSEMBLY ROOM