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

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ormal School created in 1865 A'jy'iShe Indiana State Legislature. with the persuasion - of Dr. E. T. Spottswood and judge Baskin E. Rhoads. created the Indiana State Normal School. on December 20. 1865. State funds. amounting to fifty- 'fi 1 -Q. thousand dollars. were appropriated to establish the. school in the city which would offer the greatest ad- vantages and which would donate not less than fiftya thousand dollars toward the Normal Schools establish- ment. Terre Haute was the only city to ask for the schoolg fifteen hundred citizens petitioned the County Board and the City Council to appropriate the required money. A plot of ground three-hundred feet square. known as Seminary Loy, located on the east side of Sixth Street between Eagle and Mulberry streets was purchased by the city of Terre Haute and donated as the original site of Indiana State Normal School. In 1867. the state legislature granted an additional fifty-thousand dollars to be expended in the construc- tion of the school building on the condition that Terre Haute would agree to forever maintain and keep up one-half of necessary repairs incident to keepinglin proper order the building or buildings of the same. The city entered into this agreement on April lo, lSo7, The cornerstone of the Normal Schools main building was laid on August 15. 1867, and although the day was extremely hot. several prominent men attended the ceremonies. At the conclusion of the formal pro- gram. numerous articles were placed in the corner stone. including the petition signed by the Terre Haute citizens asking the city council to make a bid for the school. copies of the school enactment law. several various kinds of reports. and a history of Terre Haute. By the latter part of 1869 the main building was reaching completiong a four story structure of French Renaissance design. It stood on the east side of the tract of land while the remainder of the lot was one immense pile of sand, broken stone. and debris, with two or three narrow paths leading from the street to the front door. The basement and fourth floors were unplastered and totally in the rough. The second and third stories were plastered and floored with most of the doors and windows in place when the building fund was exhausted. There was no money left to complete the buildings or even to clear the ground and lay side- walks. There were no lighting fixtures and the hall- ways were unheatedg the classrooms themselves were heated only by small stoves. The Vigo County Seminary Plot, located east of Sixth Street be- tween Eagle and Mulberry streets was the original site of ISNS, . MTN r Y' ,ad-ezrri-v 7 J N5 .Q U A We-,.... Safe -ygr Y. nag! 'i1f'c' . I, .auwT:: ,-..'-:2f- -. r' A - .V ', .qnv P'l ' -be .M- I-Q, eff HERB yu- Four

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INUXANA STATE NORMAL SCIIOUL AND YAFVCLTY. ISM --v 'gg -. INDIANA STATE NORMAL SCHOOL. J! W lata- y .1 x ' -U l 1 S Xe I , , T xl mer CATALOGUE - -w - A OFFlCERb AND STUDENTS, ' Q Q , if A 3 Q X ' ,3 .t. f ' - ,.., K : . Q X- ii p , U. X ,,, K' 5 U , -,mug'm.f3g 1, 'li Pnocmmia , V i- ,Sari gg - 4 'A f - hail-.ief3', ' it f r ui! COURSES OF INSTRUCTION 225355-.gan lSTO-71 ' Y 'A ixoiamvorisi i. i 1-i im :im wiismi i ii-171. ly .:f41-.-.-. -- l .. V .- -n -tp X .-gi . at , Yi ' ' - ', b 3, '. ' fi' 1 ,'f'a .s uh If . YS,-L i K ' 25 A i r ' EMF!! i- i A I Nlr S. M. Kellner, Anderson. ind. judge Baskin E Rhoacls was an avid supporter of the Normal School in the Indiana Legislature fi rip, 5? l, V6 fl' 5 '-Y it I A Vigo County Common School typifies the Indiana schools in which Normal graduates were required to teach. Six Four of the earliest members of the faculty in- cluded President William A. jones, Amanda P. Fun- nelle, Mary A. Bruce, Lewis l-l. jones. During the time the other instructors were teach- ing history, English grammar, and mathematics, Miss Funnelle was teaching classes on the subject of morals. A student in one of her classes testified that she had never been able to decipher what the teacher was trying to communicate to the group. She stated that at the end ofthe term Miss Funnelle asked on the final examina- tion- What have you learned from the study of morals? One young man in the class simply answered Nothing and! proceeded to compose a three page essay concerning why he had not done better in the class. The clever essay fell into the hands of another professor who entertained himself and a group of his colleagues by reading the essay examination. Despite this, the student managed to pass the course. - During the first Normal years the students were of a rather uncultivated type. Nine-tenths of the Normal School students were the offspring of farmers and mechanics, and it was obvious that the institution was a part of the common school system and not a university maintained bythe taxpayers for the educa- tion of the wealthy and professional classes. More- over, in view of the tendency of the students to become rural teachers it was declared that the school is making its influence felt where that influence is most needed-in the ungraded country schools.