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The In d ex REMINISCENCES OF FORMER PRESIDENTS. lS57f-l5hl . .I,lul Iqw 'l'Il'Il,, THE ilfteelltli day ol' October, l95T, General Charles L. Hovey. principal. and ' Ira Moore. assistant, opened the Normal School in some temporary rooms in , 1 Majors Hall, Bloomington, which had been secured hy the state hoard. The l l.,hLqMa,,4lllv tirst pupil to be enrolled was Enoch A. Gastman, of llecatur, he and another prospective Normal student having been brought illfo Bloomington that morning upon a load of potatoes. General Hovej' says of the earliest history of the Normal School: I need not tell how Ira Moore and I began to instruct a Score or less of students in a tumble-down hall, tumbled up on the top of a grocery house. at an out-1if-the-wav corner in the city of lrlloomington: how the students increased in numbers: how other teachers were added: how Mary lirooks 'run' the experimental school fprimaryl and made it a model: how said hall was tltted and furnished and grew to he comfortable. hating the surroundings: how here we pursued the even tenor of our wav biding our time: for these things are well enough known But there came a time when we were not permitted to go on in peace. Questionings. which would not be quieted hy plain answerings, came again and again. I tried hard to liar them from the School room. but could not. The great fact that not a blow had been struck on the university building for IH months was linown to ever.vhodv. It acted and reacted on us depressinglxv. XVere we to remain eooped up in Majork Hall forever? Must we, alter flattering the public. and ourselves with the grand idea of a model edilice. confess lailure? The thought was wormwood. and the fact, il' fact it should prove to be. was full of peril.
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