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

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.,J-'E---' A -wi' .ix JSE 1 W' Es, EE is X' Xi N 11,1 My . JESSIE M. DILLON, A ' Q Q.f- . E 'E 'E . . , Trammg Teacher, 4th Grade , MARGARET LEE, Kindergarten. BRUNO NEHRLING, GH1'C161161'. Q v. FLORA P. DODGE, Steno g1'aphe1'. 26

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1ell'fI.I'fN I'L'1zc1i1.I,, Emil., Training' Teacher, 5th Grade. GENEVIEVE FISHER, Training Teacher, 3rd Grade. LURA STAY EYESTONE, Training Teacher, 2nd Grade. NELLIE C. THOMPSON, Training Teacher, ISt Grade. 25 . 'T M T lg til f .I KJV' , .

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i Page 27 The INDEX NEW BUILDING UNDER CONSTRUCTION. THE GROWTH OF OUR CHOOL Much has been written concerning the history of the school, and its development. It is interesting to notice how the addition of new buildings takes place coincident with the growth of a school. Vxfe are led to see this now particularly, because a build- ing is going up in our midst which will contribute much in a material way towards the expansion of the school. Fifty-one years ago, the Illinois State Normal University was started in Majors Hall in Bloomington. It was not until in the fall of ISUO that the school was moved to Normal. It was from then until 1891 housed in the one building,-the old main building. The practice school was on the first floor, the assembly room and class rooms of the normal department, on the second tloor. The museum and biological laboratories were on the east end of the third floor, and both society halls were on the west end of the same floor. , By ISQI the school had grown greatly,-not only in the Nor- mal and High School departments, but in the training depart- ment, too. More room was needed, and so in that year the Model School was built. During the early nineties, a movement was on foot in educa- tional circles, for a better development of the body. Gymnasiums were being built in connection with many schools. This wave for the advancement of physical training struck this school.