Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1891-01-01
NORMAL SCHOOLS.
Reports on the Condition of the Thre,
Institutions.

Reports on the Condition of the Three
Institutions.
The biennial report of the Board of
Trustees of the State Normal Schools, To-
Gated at San Jose, Chico and Los Angeles,
was issued yesterday. 1t comprises all the
reports previously submitted by the Presi-
dents of the Trustees of each Normal
School.
President Ralph Lowe of the San Jose
Normal School recommends that S97 900
be appropriated by the next Legislature for
the support of his school during the next
two years. A letter from the former prin-
cipal, Charles II. Allen, is published, in
which he urges thst more attention be
paid to the manuel training department of
the school. The results already obtained
were fairly satisfactory, but the facilities
were not great enough to permit all the
pupils to be taught. The additional ex-
pense would be small when compared with
the desirable results that could he attained
Professor Childs, the present Principal of
the school, reports that forty-four counties
are represented in his school, and that for
the year the enrolment has been in the
various classes: Senior, 1872; middle, l57,
junior, 243; training department, 1853. The
total enrolment in all classes, S55; in the
Normal classes, 592; average for the year in
Normal classes, 492.
Of the 2S3 applicants for admission to
the school during the year ending June 80,
1890, 81 failed to reach the required stand
ard. Twenty-eight pupils are enrolled from
other States in the Union. The young
men in the school have organized cadet
company and have been furnished with
guns and necessary equipments by the Ad.
jutsnt General. The expenses of the school
for the forty-frst fiscal year amounted to
S426l2 SO, and for the fortieth fiscal year
S43, ,74S SO. The special appropriations for
library, sidewalk and other matters were
all used.
for the forty-first fiscal year were $2l COO.
Principal Ira Moore reports that the insti-
tuition is in prosperous condition. There
were fifty graduates during the year.
President Lusk of the Board of Trustees
of the Chico Normal School estimates that
$4,000 will be needed to carry on the
school during the next two fiscal years.
He states that an increase in the number
of teachers will be required next year, and
Training and Model School will have to
be established. The expenses for the forty
first fiscal year amounted to about S1l 900.
Professor Pierce, the Principal, says:
Inc opening OF the ScnOOl marks an ep0ch In
the educational history of this part of State.
The large number of students who have awaited
themselves of its advantages indicates the wis
dom of the legislators in locating moth of Sac
rsmento professional school for teachers.
With a Normal School at San Jose. near the
central part of the State from north to south,
and one at Los Angeles in the southern part, a
similar institution for Northern California was
an imperative necessity If the schools of this
| immense region were TO keep pace with the
educational progress evinced in other parts OF
our great commonwealth.
One hundred and ten students have been in
attendance during the year, and these students
| have represented the following counties: Mo.
| doc, Lassen, Plumas, Siskiyou, Shasta, Tehama,
| Butte, Colu a, Yuba. Calaveras, Nevada, Lake
| Sonoma. Solano, Sacramento San Joaquin and
| FL Dorado.
The many inquiries in regard to the school
| indicate that there will be a reasonable
| increase in numbers at the beginning of the
second year. Believing it wise to lay firm
/, foundation for the future well-being and sue
cess of the school, the faculty have been careful
| to admit only those who are fairly well pre-
pared to do the work with credit. This ha!
| been thought better even at the beginning a!
| the real success OF Normal School is showI
not in the number of students on the roll. bu
| in the character of the work done, and in tn,
fitness Of its graduates for the responsible wori
| OF te aching,
| The frat class will graduate one year from
1 now, and the energy and enthusiasm with
| which its members have per formed the dutie
required CT them, indicate that they will b.
well prepared to take charge of schools and d.
| coed work.