For the manner in which it is conducted, as well as for some valuable suggestions in reference to future improvements, I refer you to the report of Miss Lewis. There are nearly two hundred pupils in this department. Each succeeding session renders more apparent the necessity of a boarding house for young ladies. To find suitable boarding places for one hundred young ladies is a task the difficulty of which can only be appreciated by one who has the responsibility to meet. After the most careful consideration, some pupils are placed in families unfitted to assume the direction of ladies far from home in such a city as this.
Subsequent reports confirm the favorable opinion first formed.
So fully convinced is he of the advantages arising from having the pupils in one family, that he is now urging the propriety of erecting such a house for the young men of the school. That the expenses might thus be materially reduced, and the advantages of the school extended to those of scanty means, has been fully demonstrated. I cannot, in justice to my associates, close this report without bearing testimony to the diligent and faithful manner in which they have discharged their duties. To Mr. Carlton and Miss Houghton, so long connected with the Normal School, I am indebted for many valuable suggestions and for cheerful co-operation in the untried sphere to which I was called. Mrs. Clark, with the experience of a quarter of a century in the school room, is well fitted for the place assigned her.