Indiana University of Pennsylvania - Oak Yearbook / INSTANO Yearbook (Indiana, PA)

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Return . . . Go back and feel What was found And shared And lived in the days Past but yet bright In the still memories Surpassing your minds immediacy. Revive . . . Relive thru words Words of unrelenting Forebear set forever in time And that will always survive In the minds of ancestors. Return, Revive, And share days you will never Know again and others will know A little longer.

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The curtain of memory lifts, and snatches of the history of our Alma Mater are revealed. We see an institute gathering in Indiana, and we hear much discussion of plans for better education. Soon after, in 1869, a subscription of $20,000 is raised for the establishment of a State Normal School for the purpose of developing and training teachers. In 1871, the General Assembly recognizes the school. On May 17, 1875, two hundred twenty-five eager students meet for the first time in Indiana. It is a notable day. Great men from all over the state are here. There is a hush of expectancy as Hon. James P. Wickersham, State Superintendent of Public Instruc- tion, rises to make his address; as he pronounces the building of I.S.N.S. to be the best of its kind in the United States, there is a feeling of pride in the hearts of the audience. Memory shows us this single structure — of ample size and furnished in the most approved manner, warmed by steam and lighted by gas throughout; and thus is secured against all dirt and danger incident to a hundred fires and especially attendent upon the use of coal oil. All the rooms are in this one house: class rooms, model school rooms, private rooms, dining room, everything. Dr. E. B. Fairfield appears as the first principal; we see our beloved Miss Leonard, the preceptress, hold- ing the first class of the school. IV