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Tl)£ 2s. S. 2s. S From tlpc beginning. FIFTEEN miles soutli of Nebraska City on a branch of tbe B. fc M. R. R. is located the little town of Peru. Surely Nature lias been lavish of her gifts, and no town in Nebraska can boast of a more picturesque region surrounding it. Well-wooded bluffs, the majestic “Big Muddy” in the distance, the river lowlands and valleys in great variety here mingle and make a picture worthy of a corner of classic New England. In 1S04, was started here Mt. Vernon College—a church school under the auspices of the Methodists of Nebraska. This same year a three-story brick building was erected at a cost of $10,000— this was the beginning of old Mt. Vernon Hall, which burned in January, 1897. This single building served the rather manifold duty of dormitory, class recitation room, and library. During the session of the Legislature, winter of 1860-7, the property was tendered the state for a Normal School. In acknowledgment of the gift the Legislature appropriated money for the completion of the building and an endowment of twenty sections of land in Lancaster county. By provision of an act passed in June, 1867, the State Normal was formally located, established and endowed, and sixty acres of land near Peru was given in fee simple as a site for the school. Then was begun the Nebraska State Normal School. The Board of Education of said school held its first meeting in 1866, and elected J. M. McKensie president and his wife assistant. School opened in the fall of that year with this rather limited faculty and an enrollment of fifty in the Normal Department. From this modest beginning the school has grown for thirty-five years, slowly but steadily and surely to what it is today. The men who have successively filled the president’s chair in that institution are Prof. J. M. McKensie, 1866-71; Dr. D. Williams, 1871-2; Gen. L. J. Morgan, 1872-74; Rev. Azel Freeman, 1874-75; Prof. Albert
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