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

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called the College and Seminary Fund,'7Whieh had been derived from the sale of lands granted by the United States. Several projects as to the kind of institution to be established were rife, some of them JESSE W. FELL, Instrumental in locating the I. S. N. U. at Normal. very reasonable and some very Wild. But the State Teaehersl Asso- ure was carried thru the Legislature by a bare majority and aftei U Wlwrv l'ffHlll'fIIl,1'J' is bliss 'fisjifllff lo 711' u'f.w'. -TIIUHMAN Buss. H ll'1 1'c llwfnvl your luvlllgfinyf lwnor 1117 ffl f.'f'mf1'rll 1E.l'.771hXylLlSllR BIACKISUIQN. 17 eiation and many of the prominent teachers of the state had set their minds on a normal school. And, in the session of 1856-7, the meas- te

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a prolonged struggle. The bill creating the institution Wasfsignecl by Gov. Bissell, February 18, 1857. No money was appropriated from the state treasury, but the in- terest on the College and Seminary Fund, or a part of it, was set apart for the current expenses of the school. This amounted to something more than 214111000 a year, and was aniply suilieient for its DR.-RICHARD EDWARDS, PRESIDENT 1862-1876. purpose for more than ten years. The question has often arisen why the name Normal University was chosen, rather than Normal School. There seems to have been two very good reasons. One was that it H llylm, hm rlwyf-f'?f1'l1f'sfw'f1:'wf'.s, ll'I'Ill on Vlffflillllff, fluff fffmrylfl 151' l'UIll'HII'l.Hjj lwffflr lflwlf ffmllylll qf'171'11f1lfj.H--lllli. BAIQBEH. l'mllf'11! lo ffw, ffm :lol lu fl'm't', -lIcAl.X lil. l5A'I'lmlcIf, l'i Tyra. Tlrsillili