Indiana State University - Sycamore Yearbook (Terre Haute, IN)

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TTEMPTS were made very early in the history of Indiana to provide professional training for teachers. At the out- break of the Civil War the agitation had gained considerable prominence. The work of such men as Caleb Mills hastened the action, and a bill providing for the creation of a Normal School was passed in December, 1865. The cornerstone of the building was laid in August, 1867, and school opened on the sixth day of January, 1870, with fewer than twenty entrants and with very meagre equipment. There was only the most essen- tial furniture, with no laboratories, no apparatus, equipment, or any of the facilities which are now regarded as absolute essen- tials to school work. As time went on, the school grew, but financial conditions still provided only very poor physical con- ditions. In April, 1888, a fire destroyed the entire school plantp and classes were held in the city schools. A new building was begun immediately, and by the beginning of the fall term classes were resumed although the structure was not entirely completed. The Administration Building, as it is now called, contains most of the administrative offices of the college as well as College Hall, where convocation exercises are held, the radio broadcasting studio, and a few classrooms of the academic departments. RADIO CLASS IN BROADCAST CONVOCATION IN COLLEGE HALL THE REGISTRAR S OFFICE - . - ' 1.-.Ai.. .

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EXT to the Administration Building, North Hall is the oldest building on the campus. lt was completed in l895. A men's gym and a women's gym comprised the first floor. The library was located on the second floor. A number of laboratories for the various phases of the science department were on the third floor. The fourth floor was given over ex- clusively to a meeting place for literary societies. The catalogue which was published at this time by the lndiana State Normal School proudly claimed: There are few, if any, Normal schools in the United States that are more fully equipped in all their de- partments for work than is this institution. lust before the World War ended, the top floor of North Hall was converted into a barracks due to a pressing need for space. This change was made for the benefit of a students' Army Training Corps. North Hall today serves as an auxiliary to the Administra- tion Building. lt now contains the deans' offices, a newly ac- quired Student Lounge, classrooms of the Departments of Art, Commerce, Mathematics and Foreign Languages. THE STUDENT LOUNGE AN ART CLASS Paoiscr A TYPING CLASS IN ACTION