Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1874 — State Normal School. [ARTICLE]

State Normal School.

The biennial report of the State Normal School, at Terre Haute, was filed on the 16th. The report of the Trustees was written by Col. R. W. Thompson, and is a valuable document, devoted to the ad-

vocacy of normal instruction. He asks for an aggregate appropriation of $Bl,168, which embraces the finishing of the building, only two stories of which are in use, a boarding-house for„ pupils, a library, and other necessary improvements. The expenses of the institution have been $39,136.58, running nearly SIO,OOO above the appropriation. Loans have been made from Chauncey Ross, a well-known citizen of Terre Haute, who pays the expenses of twenty pupils, and has informed the Board that he has appropriated SIOO,OOO out of his estate, the mterest on which is to be applied to the education of persons unable to pay the expense themselves. He has also given $4,000 for a library. The school originally started with twenty-one pupils, but has now 401. There have been admitted since the opening 855 pupils, and fortyone have been graduated as teachers. 3eventy-five counties are represented in the present attendance. It is recommended that the Legislature appropriate $20,000 as a fund to pay professors.