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

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'Ciba llnbeg 11 There are enrolled at present in the public schools over 200,000 pupils. Night schools are reaching at least 50,000 more. This number could be doubled at once if money were to be had to pay the native teachers. For ex- ample, I have in my town tive barrios which desire a public school but which have not had any this year because of lack of money. This bad financial con- dition is due to the fact that more than half the land in this town or pueblo triar land, and that the triar lands were released from taxation during the past year. At the first of the year only one of these b-arrios requested a school, but now all desire it. Thus it can be seen that the enrollment could be trebled in this town if money could be had. This is the case in nearly all the towns of this province and many other provinces. We are all at times terribly discouraged and the dithculties we meet with are often enough to discourage the niost optimistic, but although we have had TO modify our view of the capacity of these people very nia.terially, we still feel that the work is going to be a success. We are going to keep on, and the time will surely come when the Filipinos will appreciate our etiiorts and meet them with corresponding effort on their part. We are really doing a glorious work. We are opening the eyes ot the blind. We are bringing to a benighted race the light of reason. As to the representatives of the old Normal, I feel thai we are fairly hold- ing up the reputation of the school.. The other day when our division super-- intendent was visiting nie, he was talking of the work of different teachers and happened to remark, f'That man Fairchild has as much hard sense as any man in the province. I was proud to say, CtHe is an I. S. N. U. boyf' We have all been raised in salary and that would seem. to show that our work here is counted worthy. lt is certain that we are all doing our best. and that is all any man can do. We all send our greetings to the old school and best wishes to the class of 1903. Guo. M. PALMER.

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I P FROM THE PHILIPPINES I l.S. N. U. A 1903 T WILL be two years the twenty-tlIiI-cle of July since the Army llll'2lllS1AJOl'JE C'fl'lIoIIIzIs'n S21llCfll oIIt of tlIe Golcleu Gate for tlIe Philip- pines, bearing about Six lIIIIIIlI'eIlI tezIelIeI's ot both sexes, who were III-lug sent out to I-oIIqIIeI' the PlIil,iIIpiIIes by love and reason. They were all Hl,lIeI'l with e1ItlIIIs'i.zIsIII for the ojI'e:It task which they lIaIcl U11ClC1't2lIliQll, Zlllll CC'1'f2ll1'lly must have zIppeIII'ecl as Z1 IIIIiqIIe spectacle to the world :It large. 'l'lIey were IIIQII illlil XYOIIIUII wlIo lJf'lllf'X'C1ll utllilt III even savage leb0SO111S there are longiugs, yezII'IIIiIIgs, SJE1'lX'll1g'S, 3I'oI' the goocl they COl1l1J1'CllOl1fl not, and tlIzIl' love C0l1l1lll0l'S ull things. 'l'lIose lllflll Ellltl woIIIoII mul others wlIo l 'lI70CfCllCfll and followecl tllClll, IIIIIII- iIeI'iIIg Zlllflllt one JEl!0llSill1fel all tolcl, were SCzllIJECl'Cll JElll'0llgl1Ollt those islaucls, :IIIIl pI'oCeeIlI-Il to lIuilIl up at School systc-III. III some towns tlII-HI' were 1'eeoiI'eIl Q-o1'clI:Illy, illlfl their work proverl quite n PIIIC-C-ess. l'II OfllOl'H lIllO'Y were loolfecl upon :Is sIII'eessoI's of tlIe tI'izI1's and Cou- SCf1ll0l1lly with sIIsIIiI-ioII. 'lull all eases tlIey were WZlJECllll?ll C0llSt2ll1JEl.y, aufl all tlIoiI' nets eI'iticIseIl by il people wlIo lll1lflUl'St0Otl IIotlIiIIg' ot IXIIIeI'iezI1I CllSJEOlIllS, fllltl wlIo, tl1l'0llg'll lll2lllf'lOllS lllSlIl'1lClIl01l, illlll often 'l'l'0lll lomcol exzIIIIples of ,XIIIoI'iezIIIs in the IIIilitiII, lIzIIl :I very poor Olbllllllll of the ,XIIIeI1icfzIII. as El class. lt is iIII 1 IossIIIIe III il lDl,'lL'll zII'tiI-le to show the mass of opposition, sIIpe'I'sti- tion zIII4l 1IPI'ejIIIlic-0 with wlIiclI the AIIIC-I'ieII1I JfC2lCllC1' has llilfll to cleall during the 'past two yezIrS. rllllf' toIIcflIoI's lmve lreeu tlIe most Wiflely sealtterecl IIIIIl most tlIoI'ouglIl,y UlJSUI'VCfl of 2llll.V class of ,fXIIIeI'icfzI1Is :IIIIl they fool SOlllOXVll2lIlQ Pl'Ol14Il of the fact that toflny that .iIItoIIse opIIositIoII is pzIS:4iIIg awuyg in Hldlly towns it has :Il- I'eIIIl.y pzwsml RIIWEIY, mul the l llCOlIlC :Ire llwgllllllllg' to look with sy1I11I:ItlIy upon the public: sohool systf,-III :Incl AIIIoIfic'zIII cuStoIIIs in geIIe1'zIl.

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