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James R. Daucmierty, Indiana, Pa. Hon. Harry White, J. D. Patton, J. M. Guthrie, A. T. Moorhead Samuel A. Smith, Thomas Sutton, Edward Rowe, Hon. Silas M. Clark, Rev. Wm. S. Owens, D. D., Jno. P. Elkin, A. W. Wilson, W. J. Mitchell, John W. Sutton, S. M. Jack, Rev. A. C. Ehrenfeld, ' ' A. W. Kimmell, A. P. Kirtland, Blairsville, ; ' Hon. Silas M. Clark, President. Thomas Sutton, Secretary. James M. Watt, Treasurer.
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elCi lo i) oi kfa School. JANE ELIZABETH LEONARD. OF the eleven State Normal Schools of Pennsylvania, Indiana is the youngest but one, and yet it is now almost twenty years since the discussion among the citi- zens that led to its establishment began. In 1869, some eighteen or twenty thousand dollars were subscribed in aid of the project, but there the movement stopped. In 1871 an act was passed to aid the Indiana Normal School similar to the act passed in 18G9, granting aid to the school of California. The subject was considered at the County Institute held in the fall of 1871, subscriptions were resumed, and from that time the work was pushed forward vigorously. The .best site in the whole vi- cinity, overlooking the town, was purchased, plans were adopted, estimates were made, contracts were consummated, and building was begun. On May 17, 1875, the school was opened. Many who read this sketch will remem- ber that first term. It was ten weeks long and we had 148 students in the Normal School, and 80 in the Model School. Among the bright and earnest faces that greeted us on that opening day were at least two of the contributors to the Clionian, Dr. Mc- Curdy of Philadelphia and Miss Brooks of the Allegheny High School. The latter was, we remember, the first young lady who selected a room at Indiana. The State recognition took place on Friday, 21st of May. At two o ' clock on the afternoon of that day a thousand people were gathered in the chapel to hear the report of the committee of inspection, and to listen to their words of approval and congratu- lation. What a ringing speech Mr. Wickersham, then State Superintendent, made, and we had a taste too of the really fine eloquence of the principal of the School, E. B. Fair- field, D. D., LL. D. In the splendid building, completed after so much effort, and in the large number of students already attracted to the school, its friends and the public spirited citizens of the town, began at last to realize their dream of a school at Indiana. The Normal School law of 1857 provided for no State appropriations. The friends of these schools proposed to apply to them the old Pennsylvania policy of allowing private enterprise to precede State action in the establishment of public institutions. Later the State came to their aid, but, with all their required expensive and large equipments, they must be in the main self-supporting. This makes the struggles of new schools difficult, sometimes appalling. From such struggles Indiana Avas not exempt; but so determined were the Board of Trustees to shield the school that its reverses and mis-
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